The titles of the posts that evaluate chapter 4 provide a glimpse of some of its theoretical shortcomings.
- Why The Argument For A Discourse Semantics Of Logical Relations Is Invalid
- Underplaying The Scope Of Logical Relations
- Conflating Systems Of The Logical And Textual Metafunctions
- Misconstruing Different Systems As Divergent Classifications
- Misrepresenting Different Manifestations Of Expansion As Indeterminacy
- Misconstruing Extension As Enhancement
- Misconstruing the Theoretical Status Of Expansion
- Presenting Subtypes Of Expansion As The Principal Types
- Misidentifying A Metafunction
- Misinterpreting Internal And External Conjunctive Relations
- Confusing Conjunctive Relations With Conjuncted Messages
- Confusing Textual Relations With Construals Of Experience
- Confusing The Logical And Textual Metafunctions And Misconstruing Elaboration As Enhancement
- Misconstruing Internal And External Relations
- Confusing The Logical And Experiential Metafunctions
- Rebranding Grammar As Discourse Semantics
- Seeing Metafunctions As Alternatives Rather Than Complementary
- Confusing Ideational Cause And Interpersonal Modulation
- Using 'Condition' To Unite 'Cause' And 'Manner' As 'Consequential'
- Misconstruing Manner As Cause
- Misconstruing Condition And Purpose As Cause–Effect
- Misconstruing The Distinction Between Condition And Purpose
- Misrepresenting Reason As Purpose
- Misconstruing Negative Vs Positive Condition
- Misconstruing Negative Vs Positive Purpose
- Misconstruing Condition And Purpose
- Confusing Condition With Probability
- Misconstruing Reason And Result As Purpose
- Misconstruing Manner As A Cause-Effect Relation
- Misconstruing A Dependent Clause As A Postmodifier In An Adverbial Group
- Misconstruing Concession As Manner
- Misconstruing Adversative Extension As 'Concessive Purpose'
- Misconstruing Positive Condition As Concessive
- Confusing Enhancement (Manner: Comparison) With Extension (Adversative Addition)
- Confusing Dissimilar (Enhancement) With Adversative (Extension)
- The Argument For Comparison As A Major Logical Category
- Misconstruing Adversative Addition (Extension) As Manner: Comparison (Enhancement)
- Misconstruing Subtractive And Replacive Variation (Extension) As Subtypes Of Comparison (Enhancement)
- Using Clause Simplexes To Theorise Conjunctive Relations
- Confusing Negative Addition With Negative Polarity
- Confusing Internal With Cohesive, Similar With Elaboration, Different With Adversative
- Misconstruing 'Elaboration: Apposition' As 'Similarity: Reformulation'
- Misconstruing 'Elaboration: Clarification' As 'Similarity: Reformulation'
- Misconstruing Cohesive As Internal
- Misconstruing Types Of Elaboration As Types Of Enhancement
- Confusing (Elaborating) Conjunctive Relations With (Elaborating) Relational Processes
- Misconstruing Apposition (Elaboration) As Comparison (Enhancement)
- Misconstruing A Modal Adjunct As A Conjunctive Adjunct
- Misconstruing Summative Clarification (Elaboration) As Comparison (Enhancement)
- Confusing Textual Clarification With The Enactment Of Meaning
- Misconstruing Textual Clarification As Text Emendation
- Misconstruing Internal Conjunction
- Misconstruing Resumptive Clarification As Interrupted Comparison
- Misconstruing Different Metafunctional Manifestations Of Extension As Subtypes Of Enhancement
- Misconstruing Elaboration Vs Extension As Internal Enhancement
- Misconstruing Mixed Types Of Elaboration & Extension As Degrees Of Enhancement
- Rebranding Grammatical Relations As Discourse Semantic Relations
- Misconstruing Continuity As Addition
- Misconstruing Continuity And Clarifying Elaboration As Additive Extension
- Rebranding Extending Vs Elaborating As Developing Vs Staging
- Misconstruing Extension As A 'Continuity' Of Additive And Comparative Relations
- Reconstruing A False Dichotomy As Hyponymy
- Misconstruing An Interpersonal Concession As A Non-Concessive Logical Relation
- Mistaking Comment Adjuncts For Conjunctions
- Confusing Metafunctions — And Expansion Types
- Misconstruing Types Of Comment Adjuncts As Marking Modality Values Of A Logical Relation
- Misconstruing Clarification (Elaborating) As Concession (Enhancing)
- Not Recognising A Genuine Concessive Relation
- Mistaking A Thematised Mood Adjunct Of Temporality For Internal Temporal Conjunction
- Misrepresenting Internal Vs External Relations
- Misconstruing Structural Vs Cohesive As External Vs Internal
- Misconstruing The Meaning Of Internal Conjunctive Relations
- Misrepresenting Continuity
- Conjunction, "Continuity" And Thematicity
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Temporality) As A Continuity Item [1]
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Temporality) As A Continuity Item [2]
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Temporality) As A Continuity Item [3]
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Intensity) As A Continuity Item [1]
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Intensity) As A Continuity Item [2]
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Intensity) As A Continuity Item [3]
- Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Intensity) As A Continuity Item [4]
- Misconstruing The Difference Between Conjunction And Continuity
- Misconstruing Types Of Adjunct As Types Of Continuity Item
- Misconstruing Mood Adjuncts Of Temporality As Continuity Items Of Counterexpectation
- Misconstruing Interpersonal Counterexpectancy As Logical Continuity
- Misconstruing Mood Adjuncts Of Temporality As Aspectual Continuity Markers
- Misconstruing the Function Of A Mood Adjunct (Misconstrued As A Continuity Item)
- Misconstruing Substitution As Continuity
- Misconstruing Residue Substitution As Continuity
- Misconstruing A Circumstantial Adjunct As A Continuity Item
- The Omission Of Projection And Hypotactic Elaboration From The Logic Of Discourse Semantics
- Misconstruing Parataxis As Addition (Extension)
- Misconstruing An Implicit Conjunctive Relation As Internal
- Misapplying Logical Nesting To Textual Relations
- Misapplying Textual Reference To Logical Dependency
- Misconstruing Circumstantial Comparison As Conjunctive Comparison
- Criticising Others For Not Making The Same Mistakes
- Confusing Textual Relations With Logogenesis
- Maintaining That Clause Simplexes "Cause Problems For The Clause Complex Analysis"
- Confusing Semantic Relations With Logogenesis
- Confusing Textual Conjunction With Logical Relations
- Misrepresenting The Discourse Systems Of Conjunction & Identification
- Confusing Cohesive Relations With Logogenesis