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Most Viewed Posts This Week

  • Problems With The Notion Of Context Skewing Language System Probabilities
  • Purview Meets Engagement: Collapsing Strata in SFL
  • Rebranding Attitude as Positioning
  • When Purview Slips its Bounds: The Collapse of Control, Knowledge, and Negotiation
  • Problems With The Authors' 'Resource Guide'
  • Misrepresenting Exchange Responses As Tenor
  • Rebranding Interpersonal Semantics As Context: Internal vs External Tenor
  • Purview Overreach: Duplicating Contextual Categories in English
  • Misreading Modality
  • Purview Collapsing into Mood: The Misdescription of Wh-Questions

Most Viewed Posts This Month

  • “Expanding Horizons” by Collapsing the Architecture
  • The Resource Illusion: When Tenor Pretends to Realise Genre
  • When Tenor is Reframed as an Affective Toolkit
  • The Demographic Strawman and the Erasure of Context
  • Positioning Mispositioned: Theorising ‘Position’ at the Semantics–Context Interface
  • The Problem With The System Of Positioning
  • The Problem With Field As 'A Resource For Construing Phenomena'
  • Misunderstanding Context As The Language That Realises It
  • Misunderstanding Interpersonal Meaning as Tenor
  • Negotiating Non-Finite Clauses As Tenor And Misunderstanding Engagement

Most Viewed Posts Overall

  • The Offer Overwritten: When Purview Distorts the Exchange
  • Purview Misapplied: Mistaking Rhetorical Play for Epistemic Positioning
  • Rebranding Mood and Engagement as Context: A Stratificational Misstep
  • Purview Meets Engagement: Collapsing Strata in SFL
  • Problems With The Key Motivation For The Model Of Tenor In This Book
  • The Promise of Nuance, the Cost of Clarity
  • Misunderstanding Tenor And The Architecture Of Language
  • Purview Overreach: Duplicating Contextual Categories in English
  • Problems With The Notion Of Context Skewing Language System Probabilities
  • Misunderstanding Context As The Language That Realises It

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