Doran, Martin & Zappavigna (2025: 9, 10):
For language, this book assumes a model of language comprising the strata of phonology (or graphology for written language or the embodied signing of sign languages), lexicogrammar and discourse semantics (Figure 1.3).
We call the most abstract stratum of language discourse semantics, not semantics, to emphasise its orientation to larger text patterns (Martin, 1992; Martin & Rose, 2003/2007); this distinguishes it from the clause semantics of say Halliday and Matthiessen (1999) or Hasan (e.g. Hasan, Williams, Cloran, & Lukin, 2005). For grammatical analysis of English examples we rely on Halliday (1985 and subsequent editions); for phonological analysis we draw on Halliday and Greaves (2008); and for paralanguage (i.e., body language, gesture and the like) we reference Ngo et al. (2022).
Reviewer Comments:
[1] To be clear, Martin's discourse semantics arose as his rebranding of lexicogrammatical cohesion (Halliday & Hasan 1976), the non-structural system of the textual metafunction. For the myriad misunderstandings of SFL theory in this model, see here (Martin 1992) and here (Martin & Rose 2007).
[2] To be clear, Martin's ideational discourse semantics is now a rebranding of the semantics of Halliday & Matthiessen (1999) by Martin's former student, Hao. See, for example:
[3] For evidence of the theoretical misunderstandings and plagiarism in this work, see:
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