Wednesday, 16 August 2023

David Rose Misrepresenting Cohesion (Halliday & Hasan) As Discourse Semantics (Martin)

Check out Halliday & Hasan (1976) Cohesion in English for detailed discussion of substitution and ellipsis... very different explanation — as discourse semantic resources rather than grammatical constraints.




Blogger Comments:

This is misleading, because it is not true. Halliday & Hasan (1976) was concerned with lexicogrammatical cohesion, not discourse semantics. Martin (1992) took Halliday & Hasan (1976) as his source and rebranded their lexicogrammatical cohesion as his own discourse semantics. Here Rose is participating in that deception.

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