Martin (1992: 559):
Not in passing that wave patterns are very commonly reflected in the labelling given to beginning and end stages across genres, reflecting the peaks and troughs of prominence that open and close a text; a number of these are reviewed in Table 7.17.
Table 7.17 Culminative prominence and generic structure
Blogger Comment:
As the table demonstrates, this claim is wholly bogus. Not one of the labels "reflects" the notion of a wave peak or trough.
