Post Titles For Chapter 3 — Identification: Reference As Semantic Choice

The titles of the posts that evaluate chapter 3 provide a glimpse of some of its theoretical shortcomings.

1. Misunderstanding Grammatical Intricacy
2. On Context "Independency"
3. Misunderstanding The Use Of Reference In A Child's Text
4. Confusing Semogenesis With Levels Of Symbolic Abstraction
5. Confusing Tracking With Identifying And Misrepresenting English Grammar
6. Confusing Nominal Group Deixis With Cohesive Reference
7. Confusing Nominal Group Deixis With Reference And A Self-Contradiction
8. Confusing Identifiability With Newsworthiness, Deixis And Reader Knowledge
9. Confusing Nominal Groups With Reference Items
10. Confusing Frege's Reference (Bedeutung) With Halliday's Reference
11. Rebranding Co-Reference As Reminding Phoricity
12. Rebranding Comparative Reference As 'Relevance Phoricity'
13. Misconstruing Ellipsis–&–Substitution As Reference And Rebranding It As "Redundancy Phoricity"
14. Rebranding Co-Reference, Comparative Reference And Substitution As Reminding, Relevance And Redundancy Phoricity
15. Misconstruing A Textual Relation (Reference) As A Logical Relation (Dependency)
16. Confusing Semantic Relations (Reference) With Grammatical Relations (Ellipsis–&–Substitution)
17. Misidentifying Both The Reference Item And The Referent
18. Misconstruing Logico-Semantic Cause As Comparative Reference
19. Misconstruing Phonology As Grammatical Ellipsis–&–Substitution Misunderstood As Semantic Reference
20. Misconstruing The Absence Of Reference As "Presenting" Reference
21. Confusing The Referent With The Reference System And Reference With Lexical Cohesion (Hyponymy)
22. Misidentifying Instances Of Reference In A Text
23. Self-Contradiction And Circular Reasoning
24. On Knowledge Of Language As Context
25. Using Pronouns Generically Without Presuming Generic Participants
26. On Adjectives In "Generic Groups" And "Relevance Phoricity"
27. Confusing Nominal Group Deixis With Reference
28. Confusing Reference With Ellipsis And Deixis
29. A Manifestly False Claim
30. Confusing Reference With Misunderstood Deixis
31. Misrepresenting A Misunderstanding Of Deixis As Reference
32. Confusing Experiential Content With Textual Reference
33. Using A Report Of Unseen Data To Support An Unlikely Claim
34. An Invalid Conclusion From An Unlikely Claim
35. Confusing Non-Specific Deixis With Demonstrative Reference
36. Non-Phoric Reference
37. Deploying A Logical Fallacy To Deceive The Reader
38. Confusing Deixis, Reference, New And Theme
39. Misconstruing Non-Specific Deixis As Reference
40. Confusing Deixis With Reference
41. Confusing Identifiability With Identity
42. Mistaking Experiential Identity For Textual Reference
43. Confusing Textual Reference With 'Transcendent' Reference
44. Mistaking Proper Nouns For Common Nouns
45. Misunderstanding The Function Of Personal Reference Items
46. Mistaking The Experiential Construal Of Participants For Textual Reference
47. Misconstruing Experiential Naming And Interpersonal Deixis As Textual Reference
48. Confusing Construing Participants With Reference
49. Misunderstanding And Rebranding Demonstrative And Comparative Reference
50. Mistaking Deixis For Reference
51. Mistaking Numeratives And Epithets For Reference Items
52. Mistaking Experiential Construal For Textual Reference
53. The Oxymoron Of "Undirected" Reference
54. Mistaking The Deictic Function Of Determiners For Their Referential Function
55. Mistaking An Ordinal Numeral For A Superlative Adjective
56. A Misunderstanding Of A Nominal Group And A Misleading Inference
57. Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Non-Structural Reference
58. Deliberately Omitting Falsifying Evidence
59. Rebranding A Misunderstanding Of A Grammatical Opposition As Discourse Semantic
60. Mistaking Experiential For Textual, Grammar For Semantics, And Nominal Groups For Reference Items
61. Presenting Halliday & Hasan's Ideas As Martin's Ideas [1]
62. Presenting Halliday & Hasan's Ideas As Martin's Ideas [2]
63. Presenting Halliday & Hasan's Ideas As Martin's Ideas [3]
64. Misconstruing Nominal Group Modality As Comparative Reference
65. Misconstruing Comparative Reference
66. Some Of The Problems With Martin's Comparison Systems
67. Misconstruing Homophoric Reference As Not Phoric
68. Strategically Confusing Delicacy And Realisation
69. Fig. 3.9 The System Of Identification
70. Strategically Misrepresenting Halliday & Hasan (1976: 145)
71. Confusing Ideational Denotation With Textual Reference
72. Confusing Material Setting And Context Of Situation
73. Misunderstanding Homophoric Reference And Context Of Culture
74. Misconstruing Context As Language And Material Setting Instead Of Culture
75. Reasoning 'From Below' Instead Of 'From Above' And A Self-Contradiction
76. Misunderstanding Homophoric Reference As Its Opposite
77. The Inconsistencies Created By Rebranding Structural Cataphora As Esphora
78. Misunderstanding The Interpersonal Function Of Embedding
79. Confusing Immanent Textual Reference With Transcendent Ideational Denotation
80. Confusing Grammatical Reference And Lexical Cohesion
81. Mistaking Ideational Denotation For Textual Reference
82. Reference Without Referents
83. Confusing Ideational Denotation With Textual Reference
84. Confusing Instantiation With The Syntagmatic Axis
85. Text [3.1] — A Reference Analysis
86. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [1]
87. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [2]
88. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [3]
89. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [4]
90. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [5]
91. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [6]
92. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [7]
93. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [8]
94. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [9]
95. Using Writing Pedagogy To Imply Theory Validation
96. Foreshadowing A Misconstrual Of Stratal Relations
97. Participant–Nominal Group "Incongruence"
98. On 'Structural It' Not Realising A Participant
99. On Nominal Groups In Idioms Not Realising A Participant
100. On Indefinite Nominal Groups Under The Scope Of Negation Not Realising A Participant
101. On Nominal Groups Realising Attributes But Not Realising Participants
102. On Nominal Groups Realising Range (Process) But Not Realising Participants
103. On Nominal Groups Realising Range (Entity) But Not Realising Participants
104. On Nominal Groups In Location Circumstances Not Realising Participants
105. On Nominal Groups In Extent Circumstances Not Realising Participants
106. On Nominal Groups In Role Circumstances Not Realising Participants
107. On "The Problem Of Realising More Than One Participant In A Nominal Group"
108. On Possessive "Pronouns" In Deictic Position
109. On "Whether Possessive Deictics Are The Deixis Of The Participant They Possess"
110. Misconstruing Embedded Things (And An Epithet) As Participants
111. Misconstruing Nominal Group Heads As Participants
112. Confusing Textual Reference With Interpersonal Deixis
113. Strategically Misapplying The Term 'Incongruence'
114. Misunderstanding Grammaticalisation
115. Misinterpreting Substitution-&-Ellipsis As Reference
116. Relating Phoricity Types To Nominal Group Structure
117. Giving Priority To Structure And Form Instead Of System And Function
118. Martin's Argument For Stratifying Identification And Nominal Group Options
119. Confusing Identity With Identifiability
120. Confusing Participant Identity With The Systemic Means Of Referring To Referents
121. Confusing Semogenesis With Stratification
122. A Reference Chain Of Non-Participant And Participant
123. Another Reference Chain Of Non-Participant And Participant
124. Oversimplifying Nominalisation
125. Two Bare Assertions Based On A Logical Confusion
126. "Villified"
127. Misunderstanding Nominalisation And Reference
128. Confusing Ideational Construal With Textual Reference
129. Confusing Metafunctions And Confusing Types Of Cohesion
130. The Notion Of "Grammatical Metaphor Functioning As A Kind Of Discourse Process"
131. Metafunctional Inconsistency
132. Two Theoretical Problems With Reference Chains
133. Mistaking Nominal Groups For Reference Items
134. A Fatal Theoretical Flaw And Misrepresenting Du Bois (1980)
135. Identifying 'The Cat' With 'Her Dinner'
136. Participant Chains Of Non-Participants
137. Reminding Phoricity, Relevance Phoricity And Bridging Clarified
138. Redundancy Phoricity: A System With No Structural Realisation
139. A Misleading Analysis Of "Instantial Reference"
140. Misrepresenting Halliday & Hasan On Reference
141. The Re-Initiation Of Generic Reference Chains
142. The Analysis Of Text [3:88]: An Attempt To Hide A Theoretical Inconsistency
143. Eight Problems With Martin's Six Notes To His Analysis Of Text [3:88]
144. Eight Problems With Martin's Nine Notes To His Analysis Of Text [3:89]
145. Confusing Circumstances Of Location With Reference Items
146. Mistaking Manner For Extent And Confusing Circumstances With Comparative Reference Items
147. Metafunctional Inconsistencies
148. Some Of The Theoretical Problems With Participant As The Entry Condition To The System Of Identification
149. Misconstruing 'Multivariate' & Metafunctional Inconsistencies
150. Martin's Insight That Interruptions Depend On There Being Something To Interrupt
151. The Commonality Of Reference Structures And Negotiation Structures
152. The Major Limitation On The Account Of Participant Identification