Tuesday 31 March 2015

Robin Fawcett Positively Judging Himself


Robin Fawcett wrote to sysfling on 31 March 2015 at 09:12:
Finally, writing now as the organizer of the first 'Systemic Worksop' (back in 1974!) and in due (as we began to need a more formal structure) the first Chair of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, I welcome the newly born Systemic Functional Linguistics Association of Tunisia, into the ever-growing family of SFL associations - at national, regional and international level.  

Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
Robin Fawcett
positive
judgement: normality (esteem)
Robin Fawcett
positive
judgement: normality (esteem)

Sunday 29 March 2015

David Rose Positively Judging Michael Halliday

Such a kind man

How lucky we have been


Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
Michael Halliday
positive
judgement: propriety (sanction)
“us”
positive
judgement: normality (esteem)

Saturday 28 March 2015

David Rose Negatively Judging Halliday And Matthiessen

My own view is that this omission [of Martin’s discourse semantic systems from IFG by Matthiessen and Halliday] 
has as much to do with personal institutional politics within the SFL leadership*
as it does with the relative merits of the theory.



Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
Matthiessen and Halliday omitting Martin’s discourse semantic systems from IFG
negative
judgement: propriety
Martin’s discourse semantic theory
negative
appreciation


*I thought we were an autonomous collective:

Friday 27 March 2015

David Rose Positively Judging Himself

But perhaps they [Matthiessen and Halliday] were both biased, as Rose had studied and applied their theory and methods so devotedly.





Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
Matthiessen and Halliday
negative
judgement: propriety
David Rose
positive
judgement: tenacity

Thursday 26 March 2015

David Rose Quoting Positive Appraisals Of Himself

“It seems entirely appropriate to say that [Rose] is a semiotic reincarnation of B.L. Whorf...”
“Rose thus clearly belongs to the class of once-in-a-blue moon scholars that Whorf belonged to



Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
David Rose
positive
appreciation
David Rose
positive
judgement: capacity
David Rose
positive
appreciation
David Rose
positive
judgement: capacity

Monday 23 March 2015

Misplaced Positive Affect For David Rose's Text Analysis


But I liked David Rose's stratal tension account very much.


Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
David Rose's stratal tension account
positive
affect




Notes About Rose's Stratal Tension Account

In the list posting (here), Rose misrepresents lexicogrammar as discourse semantics, and
  1. mistakes the interpersonal metafunction for the logical (as demonstrated here);
  2. mistakes the textual metafunction for the experiential (as demonstrated here);
  3. mis-identifies the Theme of a clause (as demonstrated here);
  4. speaks of the text when claiming to speak of register and context, and totally misinterprets the context that the text construes and realises (as demonstrated here).

This positive feedback immediately triggered in Rose what Bartlett referred to, in response, as "poorly disguised invective", followed by Rose's positive self-judgements recorded later on this blog.