David Rose Positively Appreciating Something That Doesn't Exist

In response to Gerard O'Grady's request on the Sysfling email list for information on systemic work on intonation in languages other than English,  David Rose replied on November 11, 2014:

I believe a key work is... Cléirigh, C. 1998. The Genesis Of Phonic Texture. Ph.D. Thesis. Sydney University

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	Polarity	Attitude
Cléirigh, C. 1998. The Genesis Of Phonic Texture	positive	appreciation: valuation

Note: This thesis contains no investigation of the intonation of any language in any framework.

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

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	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.

David Rose Positively Appreciating Margaret Berry

David Rose wrote of Margaret Berry on the Sys-Func list at 10:57pm on 15/2/14:

Thanks Margaret, its such a pleasure to read your posts.

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	Polarity	Attitude
Margaret Berry	positive	appreciation
reading Margaret Berry’s posts	positive	affect

David Rose Positively Appreciating Margaret Berry Still Being Alive

David Rose wrote of Margaret Berry on the Sys-Func list at 7:45am on 14/2/14:

Thank heavens you're still with us Margaret.

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	Polarity	Attitude
Margaret Berry being still with us	positive	appreciation

From Rumpole Rests His Case (John Mortimer 2001: 198-9):

'Mr Rumpole!  We heard you were taken really bad, Sir.  It's good to hear you're still with us, as you might say.'

'As you might say, Henry, if you were in a particularly tactless mood.'