Jim Martin Positively Assessing His Misunderstandings Of Axis

Jim Martin replied to Ed McDonald on Sysfling on 25 Aug 2023, at 12:10:

Axialist and proud!

Blogger Comments:

For Martin's misunderstanding of axis, as reported by his most faithful follower, see for example:

• David Rose Misrepresenting Axis As Key To Semantics-Grammar Relations
• David Rose Misrepresenting Halliday's Development Of SFL Theory
• David Rose Misrepresenting Axis
• David Rose Misrepresenting Halliday On Axis
• David Rose Misunderstanding Halliday's "Axial Breakthrough"
• David Rose Endorsing Martin's Misunderstanding Of Stratal Relations As Axial
• David Rose Endorsing Martin's Misunderstandings Of Protolanguage
• David Rose Misrepresenting The Basis Of Systems
• David Rose Confusing Axis With System
• David Rose Misunderstanding Axis And Realisation (Inter Alia)
• David Rose Misunderstanding Axial Relations And Connotative Semiotics
• David Rose Misunderstanding Axial Relations
• David Rose Misunderstanding Metafunctionality And Axis (Inter Alia)

For Martin's proud misunderstandings of axis, see the new review of Martin (2013):

• Systemic Functional Grammar: A Next Step Into The Theory — Axial Relations

Jim Martin And David Rose Recommending Martin et al.

James Martin wrote to SYSFLING on 3 Mar 2022, at 23:02:

Alongside notional reasoning from above we could explore reactances (such as those reviewed in detail in Deploying Functional Grammar, Chapter 4 Section 3 Troubleshooting).

David Rose wrote to: SYSFLING on 4 Mar 2022, 09:58:

For a practical introduction to SFG, Deploying Functional Grammar provides a helpful clear model.

and then on 6 Mar 2022, at 22:20:

See also IFG Table 5-45 Criteria for distinguishing process types. (Chapter 5 of IFG discusses these thoroughly, for each process type. Deploying Functional Grammar makes them easy)

Blogger Comments:

For a reality check, see the close examination of Deploying Functional Grammar here, especially Chapter 4 here. This work is inconsistent with IFG with regard to distinguishing behavioural from verbal processes, the experiential structure of the nominal group, and most especially, the logical structure of the verbal group.

Jim Martin Negatively Judging His Reviewers

Jim Martin wrote to SYSFLING on 14 Nov 2020 at 10:54:

I was totally crushed when my paper for the recent special issue of Functions of Language dedicated to her was rejected by reviewers, but did send a draft to her and let her know later on when it was published elsewhere (still with its dedication to her). She communed by relaying her concern that we were indeed living in difficult times – times reminding her in fact of the 60s… but now with different strata and institutional struggles now in play.

Blogger Comments:

To be clear, here Martin accuses his original reviewers of rejecting his paper for political reasons, rather than because of the quality of the paper itself. For an example of a very poor paper by Martin that was initially rejected by reviewers but which he subsequently managed to get published in another journal, see the critical examination here.

Among the consequences of a siege mentality are black and white thinking, social conformity, and lack of trust, but also a preparedness for the worst and a strong sense of social cohesion.

Jim Martin Negatively Judging The ISFLA Executive

 Jim Martin wrote to sysfling at 22:45 on 28 July 2019:

Another issue which arose at the AGM was the non-attendance of ISFLA executive members at ISFC congresses (a glaring problem in Santiago, and in Bandung a couple of years ago). I suggest that the executive develop guidelines about the responsibilities of its members re attendance at ISFC congresses and their AGMs. Very significant decisions are made by executive members during the course of a year, without as far as I can see much discussion on sysfling or elsewhere. Our AGMs are the only mechanism we have to hold our executive to account and at least a majority of members should be present and accountable.

Blogger Comments:

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
the non-attendance of ISFLA executive members at ISFC congresses	negative	judgement: propriety
		graduation: force
very significant decisions made by ISFLA executive members without discussion	negative	judgement: propriety
the accountability of ISFLA executive members	negative	judgement: propriety

The current ISFLA Executives — all of which are unpaid volunteers — are:

Chair:	Teresa Oteiza
Deputy Chair:	Tom Bartlett
Membership Secretary:	Lise Fontaine
Recording Secretary:	Derek Irwin
Treasurers:	Carlos Gouveia(Europe) Bernie Mohan (N. America) Honglin Chen (Australia)

Note that the ISFLA executive were represented at the ISFC by its most senior office bearer, Teresa Oteiza, the chair (organiser and host) of the Congress.

Significantly, Martin has provided no evidence whatsoever for his paranoid claim that "very significant decisions are made by executive members during the course of a year" without list discussion, even after being specifically asked to do so by Mick O'Donnell.

Given that Martin (of all people!) falsely accused the late Ruqaiya Hasan of plagiarism, at a symposium held to honour her achievements, the lack of evidence here, again, for what is another false claim, is hardly surprising.  But if Martin is offered a plenary at the next ISFC — and the free accommodation and free business class air travel that it entails — then his dishonest act of intimidation will have proved successful.

In contrast, here's what Martin & Rose (2007: 62) have to say about Martin:

His communion with Mandela, at such a distance in so many respects …