Friday 2 May 2014

David Rose Positively Appreciating Discourse Semantics And Negatively Appreciating Grammar

David Rose wrote to sys-func at 11:06 on 2/5/14:
This is why we need discourse semantics 
Grammar is simply not enough





Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
discourse semantics
positive
appreciation: valuation
grammar
negative
appreciation: valuation


(What "we" actually need is to understand the theory, not least stratification.)

See also John 1:1.