In my previous post about reference, I said that I’d return to the topic to give an example of the importance of reference analysis for biblical interpretation. I focus here on personal reference chains. Eggins (*Introduction to Systemic Functiona...
Posted on February 19th, 2014
In SFL-based discourse analysis, *reference* refers to how writers or speakers introduce participants (i.e., people, places, things that act or are "talked about" in a text) and then tracks them as the text unfolds (cf. Eggins, *Introduction to Sy...
Posted on February 15th, 2014
I’ll be teaching Introduction to Linguistics in the 2014 Fall semester. It’ll focus on Systemic-Functional Linguistics. I’ve been building my bibliography. Click here to take a gander at it.
Posted on February 11th, 2014
This post is part one of two (part two coming soon).
In Appraisal Theory (cf. the Appraisal Web site), we talk about three systems from which a language user may choose to make interpersonal meaning: ATTITUDE, which includes the subsystems AFFECT...
Posted on December 16th, 2013
I could not for the life of me get this blog post to format the way I wanted to, so I put it into a Google Doc. Click here to view. You can also access it here.
Posted on October 6th, 2013
I was invited to write a post for the Perspective Criticism blog a while back. If you missed it, you can find it here. Enjoy.
Posted on September 29th, 2013