Three Minor Clarifications

Martin (1992: 376-7):

Carter also reports on Francis's (1985) study of what she terms anaphoric nouns (A-nouns).  These are used in conjunction with anaphoric reference items to refer to preceding discourse. … Carter (1987: 80) lists the following examples of Francis's A-nouns.  All, it can be noted, are grammatical metaphors, reflecting the fact that congruent English reconstructs discourse as a rhetorical process, not as a product or thing.

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Examples from Francis (A-nouns)
accusation	consideration	interpretation	report
admission	criticism	judgement	repudiation
allegation	declaration	observation	retort
answer	definition	point	revelation
argument	denial	prediction	statement
assumption	description	proposal	stipulation
belief	diagnosis	proposition	suggestion
challenge	estimate	reading	threat
complaint	evidence	reasoning	theory
conclusion	examination	reference	viewpoint
confession	hypothesis	refusal

Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, these 'anaphoric nouns' are nominalisations that name types of verbal and mental projections.  Any anaphoric function is realised by the reference item that marks its identity as recoverable in the preceding discourse. 

[2] The congruent construes experience; the metaphorical reconstrues experience.

[3] In SFL theory, 'discourse as process' is theorised as logogenesis: the unfolding of text through the instantiation of potential.