Monday, 29 September 2025

From System to ‘Resources’: Evading Systemic Accountability

Doran, Martin & Zappavigna (2025: 127):
This concludes our discussion of ORIENTING RESOURCES. As we have seen, they are fundamental to organising sets of positions into coherent frameworks, and function to realise a number of more interpersonally-oriented genres.


ChatGPT Comments:

The conclusion overstates the fundamentality of ORIENTING without accounting for genre variation, risking theoretical inflation. More significantly, no system network for ORIENTING is presented. By speaking of “orienting resources” — misleadingly in upper case, as though it were a system — rather than an “orienting system,” the authors sidestep the systemic requirements of SFL theory, leaving the construct theoretically underspecified.

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