Friday 7 October 2016

Post Titles For Chapter 1 — Discourse Semantics: A Proposal For Triple Articulation

The titles of the posts that evaluate chapter 1 provide a glimpse of some of its theoretical shortcomings.
  1. The Aim Of Martin (1992)
  2. Confusing Strata
  3. Misunderstanding The Natural Relation Of Grammar And Semantics
  4. Confusing Realisation And Instantiation
  5. Misconstruing Realisation And Instantiation
  6. Blurring The Distinction Between Function (Structure) And Form (Rank Scale)
  7. Preparing To Argue 'From Below' And Misunderstanding 'Cumulative'
  8. Misrepresenting Information Distribution
  9. Misrepresenting Agency As A Recursive System
  10. Misunderstanding Levels Of Symbolic Abstraction
  11. Confusing Levels Of Symbolic Abstraction
  12. Falsely Claiming That The Content Plane Was Not Stratified Before Martin (1992)
  13. The Problems With Semantic Motifs As A Motivation For Stratification
  14. Grammatical Metaphor As Martin's Second Motivation For Stratifying Content
  15. Misrepresenting Grammatical Metaphor
  16. Self-Contradiction On Modelling Grammatical Metaphor
  17. Misrepresenting Cohesion
  18. Misrepresenting The Domain Of Cohesion
  19. Misconstruing 'Cohesion Within The Sentence'
  20. Not Recognising The 'Continuity' Between Clause Taxis And Conjunctive Cohesion
  21. Martin's Claim That Cohesion Is Only "Measured" Between Clause Complexes
  22. Why The Argument For A 'Discourse' Semantic Stratum Is Invalid
  23. Martin's Stratification Of The Content Plane
  24. Misconstruing Stratification
  25. Metafunctional Structure Types In Discourse Semantics
  26. Confusing Formal Constituency With Function Structure
  27. Misrepresenting Multivariate Structure
  28. Misconstruing The Level Of Symbolic Abstraction Of Cohesion
  29. Conflating Realisation With Instantiation
  30. Inconsistency In Reconstruing Reference As Identification
  31. Problems In Construing Cohesive Ties As Identification Structure
  32. Problems In Construing Cohesive Ties As Ideation Structure
  33. Blurring The Distinction Between Paradigmatic And Syntagmatic Lexical Relations
  34. Inconsistencies In The Notion Of 'Discourse Semantic Structure'
  35. Discourse Semantic Systems: Metafunctional Inconsistencies
  36. Misrepresenting Texture
  37. Confusing Stratification With Instantiation: Register And Genre
  38. "The Purpose Of These Descriptions Is To Enhance, Not Supplant, Those Offered In Cohesion In English"
  39. Martin's Interpersonal Discourse Semantic System Of NEGOTIATION
  40. Martin's Textual Discourse Semantic System Of IDENTIFICATION
  41. Martin's Logical Discourse Semantic System Of CONJUNCTION
  42. Martin's Experiential Discourse Semantic System Of IDEATION
  43. Martin On Cohesion, Coherence, Cohesive Harmony And Texture
  44. Misconstruing Register As Context