Martin (1992: 520-1):
Texts constituting a social process can be divided into those reconstructing a social process which has taken place and those constructing one which has not (TENSE, DEIXIS and PERSON all shift to distanced values — past, there/then, 3rd).
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[1] Again, the use of the word 'texts' here betrays the ongoing confusion between text types (registers) and context (mode). The confusion is thus along two theoretical dimensions simultaneously: stratification (context vs language) and instantiation (system vs instance type).
[2] This confuses the language rôle feature 'constitutive' (Hasan 1985/9: 58) — the textual metafunction at the level of context — with the construal of experience as meaning — the ideational metafunction at the level of semantics. The confusion is thus along two theoretical dimensions simultaneously: stratification (context vs semantics) and metafunction (textual vs ideational).
[2] This confuses the language rôle feature 'constitutive' (Hasan 1985/9: 58) — the textual metafunction at the level of context — with the construal of experience as meaning — the ideational metafunction at the level of semantics. The confusion is thus along two theoretical dimensions simultaneously: stratification (context vs semantics) and metafunction (textual vs ideational).
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