David Rose On Text Type [2/10/13]

On 2/10/13, David Rose wrote on sysfling:

In a cline of instantiation, both genre and register lie at the system end, and text type is the next step

 Blogger Comments:

[1] On the stratified model (Martin 1992) that Rose advocates, genre and register are distinct strata.  Instantiation is the relation between system and instance.  It is not a relation across strata.  So, in terms of Martin's stratification — to be consistent with the notion of instantiation — the cline for each distinct stratum would be the relation between:

• genre as system and genre as instance
• register as system and register as instance

[2] In Martin's stratified model, genre and register are strata of context.  Here Rose is construing text type — i.e. language instead of context — as a point on the cline of instantiation of context.

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Rose's construal of text type is quite difficult to unpack, owing to the fact that:

1. the model that Rose advocates is full of internal inconsistencies, and
2. Rose's construal of that model is inconsistent with the model itself.