Convoking involves bringing people or a community into a position by virtue of directing meanings toward them… The most explicit means of convoking involves the use of Vocatives to direct a position to someone. …
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Although the table expands beyond vocatives to include pronouns, imperatives, clause roles, and multimodal cues, “convoking” remains underspecified as a system. In canonical SFL, these realisations are distributed across distinct resources:
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Vocatives and pronouns belong to MOOD.
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Imperatives enact MOOD and speech function.
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Receivers in clauses are part of transitivity.
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Gaze and body orientation fall outside language, into multimodal interaction systems.
By grouping them under a single category, the authors risk collapsing analytically distinct resources into a vague umbrella. The effect is less a new system than a catalogue of ways participants can be addressed.
Furthermore, the system status of “convoking” is not specified: what is the paradigmatic opposition? What is the range of delicacy? Without this, it is hard to see convoking as more than a descriptive label. In SFL terms, the interpersonal orientation to audience is already modelled through speech function, MOOD, engagement, and appraisal. Positioning it as an independent system obscures these existing theoretical distinctions and risks redundancy.
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