Tuesday, 1 July 2025

The Basic Problems With The Core Tenor Systems: Positioning And Purview

Doran, Martin & Zappavigna (2025: 24):

POSITIONING and PURVIEW form the core of the tenor resources we will present in this book. Importantly, they are not just resources of dialogue, but resources of monologue as well. This typically draws on resources of evaluative language, which in SFL are described in terms of ATTITUDE and ENGAGEMENT (Martin & White, 2005).


Reviewer Comments:

To be clear, as previously demonstrated, these core tenor systems presented in this book are cognitive approaches to the exchange structure of interpersonal semantic system of SPEECH FUNCTION. That is, they are semantics misunderstood as context, and formulated on the basis of assumptions that are inconsistent with the approach of SFL Theory.

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