Post Titles For Chapter 7 — Context: Register, Genre And Ideology

The titles of the posts that evaluate chapter 7 provide a glimpse of some of its theoretical shortcomings.

1. Misunderstanding Metafunctions
2. Confusing Orders Of Experience
3. The Invalidity Of The Argument For Register And Genre As Context Strata
4. Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre And Register As Context Strata
5. The Invalidity Of The Argument For A Stratum Of Ideology
6. Inconsistent Claims About Discourse Semantics, Register, Genre And Ideology
7. Misrepresenting Firth On Context
8. Misrepresenting Halliday On Formal And Contextual Meaning
9. Misunderstanding Stratification And Context
10. Purpose, Genre And Register
11. Confusing Context With Semantics
12. Confusing Context With Text Type
13. Self-Contradiction
14. Problems With The Non-Argument For Register As Context
15. Problems With The Non-Argument For Genre As Context
16. Assigning Purpose To Theoretical Dimensions
17. Misrepresenting Purpose And Intention
18. Confusing Text Type (Genre) With Text Structure (Semantics)
19. Misrepresenting Previous Work On Text Structure And Context
20. Misrepresenting Hasan On Text Structure
21. Inverting The Stratification Hierarchy
22. Misunderstanding Stratification And Realisation
23. Confusing Context (And Semantics) With Text Type
24. Problems With 'Genre As A Pattern Of Register Patterns'
25. Seven Problems With The First Justification For A Genre Stratum
26. Two Problems With The Second Justification For A Genre Stratum
27. Eight Problems With The Third Justification For A Genre Stratum
28. Two Problems With The Fourth Justification For A Genre Stratum
29. Two Problems With The Fifth Justification For A Genre Stratum
30. Misidentifying Metafunctions
31. Misrepresenting Mode
32. Misconstruing A Dialogic Response As Monologue
33. Misunderstanding Mode
34. Not Acknowledging Hasan As Intellectual Source
35. Blurring Distinctions
36. Misunderstanding Bakhtin's 'Dialogic' And 'Heteroglossic'
37. Misunderstanding Orders Of Experience
38. Confusing Material Order Phenomena With Textual Semiosis
39. Confusing Context Potential (Mode) With Language Sub-Potentials (Registers)
40. Multiple Violations Of Theoretical Dimensions
41. Redefining Genre As Field
42. Under-Acknowledging Hasan As Theoretical Source
43. Confusing Contextual Potential With Semantic Sub-potentials
44. Miscategorising Texts By Mode
45. Miscategorising Text Types
46. Misrepresenting The Distinction Between Hortatory And Analytical Exposition
47. Misconstruing Degrees Of Abstraction
48. Confusing Mode (Context) With The Ideational Semantics Of Registers
49. Confusing Strata And Metafunctions
50. Misrepresenting Abstraction
51. Confusing Mode Potential (Context) With Text Types (Register)
52. Misconstruing Language Rôle As Speaker Rôle
53. Misconstruing Language Rôle As Speaker Rôle
54. Confusing Theoretical Dimensions: Stratification, Instantiation & Metafunction
55. Confusing Different Strata, Metafunctions & Orders Of Experience
56. Misconstruing Ancillary As Constitutive
57. Misconstruing Lower And Higher Orders Of Experience As Higher & Lower Levels Of Symbolic Abstraction
58. Confusing Mode Potential With Ideational Semantics Subpotentials
59. Confusing Mode Potential With Ideational Semantics Subpotentials
60. Misconstruing Field As Mode
61. Misconstruing The Notion Of Projection
62. Misconstruing Mode
63. Misconstruing Dialogue As Unprojected
64. The Non-Argument For 'Experiential Distance'
65. Misunderstanding Tenor
66. Misconstruing Context Potential (Tenor) As Language Sub-Potential (Register)
67. Blurring The Distinction Between Tenor (Context) And Interpersonal Meaning (Semantics)
68. Misattributing A Source
69. Three Minor Clarifications
70. Confusing Context Potential With The Semantics Of Registers
71. Misconstruing "Status-Like Relationships Between Participants"
72. Misconstruing Status As Control
73. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Status & Phonology
74. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Status & Grammar
75. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Status & Lexis
76. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Status & Discourse Semantics
77. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Status & Grammatical Metaphor
78. Misconstruing The Realisation Of Tenor
79. Misrepresenting The Relation Between Contact And Field
80. Metafunctional Confusion And A Non-Sequitur
81. Confusing Instantiation With Axial And Stratal Realisation
82. Misrepresenting Field As Discourse Semantics
83. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Tone
84. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Tonality
85. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Tonicity
86. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & “Phonology”
87. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Grammar
88. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Lexis
89. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Discourse Semantics
90. Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Contact & Grammatical Metaphor
91. Unsupported Claims About Affect
92. Misconstruing Relations Between Speakers As Individual Predisposition
93. Confusing Affect With Affection
94. Mental vs Relational vs Material Affection
95. Misconstruing Affect With Unsupported Claims
96. Misconstruing A Tenor Relation As The Behaviours And Predispositions Of Individuals
97. Blurring The Distinction Between Context And Semantics
98. Inconsistent Unsupported Claims About The Realisation Of Misconstrued Affect
99. Invoking Clinical And Social Psychology
100. Confusing Field With The Language That Realises It
101. Blurring The Distinction Between Realisation, Logogenesis And Instantiation
102. Misrepresenting Data & Confusing Strata
103. Confusing Context With Extra-Linguistic Knowledge, Register And Semantics
104. Misrepresenting The Distinction Between Fabula And Syuzhet
105. Misconstruing Barthes' 'Sequence' As Field
106. Not Acknowledging Barthes As Intellectual Source
107. Misrepresenting Barthes
108. Misrepresenting Barthes And Confusing Material & Semiotic Orders Of Experience
109. Confusing Composition And Superordination
110. Why Chomskyan Linguistics Has Power
111. Misconstruing Mode As Field
112. Misconstruing Behaviour As A Register Of Language
113. A False Dichotomy
114. Confusing Field And Language
115. Confusing Orders Of Experience
116. Misconstruing Field Taxonomies As Classifications Of Personnel & Semiotic Objects
117. Confusing Experience With Construals Of Experience
118. Metafunctional Inconsistency
119. Internal Inconsistency
120. Some Of The Problems With Register and Genre As Semiotic Planes
121. Misconstruing Activity Sequence (Semantics) As Field And Schematic Structure (Semantics) As Genre
122. Confusing First And Second Orders Of Experience
123. Inferring Invalidly From Misconstruals Of Semantic Structure As Field And Genre
124. The Reason For Separating Field And Genre
125. Misinterpreting Pike
126. Misinterpreting Hasan And Proposing Theoretical Inconsistencies
127. The Question Of Whether Systematising Generic Structure Potentials Leads Directly To A Two Plane Model Of Register And Genre
128. Misrepresenting Hasan On Generic Structure Potential
129. Prioritising Structure Over System
130. Misrepresenting The Prosodic Mode Of Realisation
131. Distinguishing Interpersonal Meaning From Evaluation
132. Misconstruing Prosody
133. Confusing Text Type With Text Structure
134. Misrepresenting Halliday
135. A Transparently False Claim
136. Misunderstanding Stratal Relations And Confusing Text Type (Genre) With System (Potential)
137. Misconstruing Language Sub-Potentials (Genres) As Context Potential (Culture)
138. Misrepresenting Longacre
139. Martin's Reason Why Field, Tenor & Mode Are Insufficient To Classify Genres
140. Misconstruing Semantics As Context And Misidentifying Metafunctions
141. Confusing Strata And Misidentifying Metafunctions
142. Misconstruing Semantics (Activity Sequence) As Context (Field)
143. Not Classifying Text Types From Above
144. Classifying Text Types From Semantics Instead Of Context
145. Misconstruing Language Sub-Potentials As Constituting Context Potential
146. Weaving An Illogical Argument Around A Misinterpretation Of Halliday
147. Martin's Reasons For Not Devising Genre Systems
148. Why Martin Prefers His Own Model To Halliday's
149. Misrepresenting Halliday On Context, Register And Genre
150. Misconstruing A Higher Order Of Experience As A Lower Level Of Symbolic Abstraction
151. Misconstruing One Mode System As Register And Another As Genre
152. Misconstruing First & Second Orders Of Field
153. Strategically Misrepresenting Hasan
154. Why Martin Prefers His Own Model To Hasan's
155. Asserting The Opposite Of What Is True
156. Misunderstanding Realisation
157. Misrepresenting Martin (1992)
158. Misconstruing Heteroglossia And Dialogism As System And Process
159. Misrepresenting Martin (1992) On Register & Genre
160. Addressing "The Central Problem In Marxist Theory" By Adding A More Abstract Level
161. Ignoring Halliday's Caution Against Premature Articulation
162. Preparing To Misconstrue Bernstein's Codes As Ideology
163. Misrepresenting Hasan
164. Misunderstanding Semantic Variation And Bakhtin
165. Martin's Reasons For Not Devising Ideology Systems
166. Misconstruing Bernstein's Coding Orientation As Ideology
167. Discursive Power And The Evolutionarily Necessary Resolution Of Semiotic Tension Through Dynamic Openness
168. Confusing Linguistic Variabilty With Contextual Tension
169. Misunderstanding System Architecture And Dynamics
170. Affirming The Metastability Of Evolving Dynamic Open Systems
171. Confusing Tenor (Context) With Interpersonal Meaning (Semantics)
172. Subscribing To The Naturalistic Fallacy
173. Misrepresenting Martin (1992) On Discourse Semantics And Contextual Theory