Robin Fawcett Positively Judging Himself

Robin Fawcett wrote to sysfling on 31 March 2015 at 09:12:

Finally, writing now as the organizer of the first 'Systemic Worksop' (back in 1974!) and in due (as we began to need a more formal structure) the first Chair of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, I welcome the newly born Systemic Functional Linguistics Association of Tunisia, into the ever-growing family of SFL associations - at national, regional and international level.  

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
Robin Fawcett	positive	judgement: normality (esteem)
Robin Fawcett	positive	judgement: normality (esteem)

David Rose Positively Judging Michael Halliday

David Rose wrote on sys-func and sysfling on 26 March 2015 at 22:17:

Such a kind man

How lucky we have been

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
Michael Halliday	positive	judgement: propriety (sanction)
“us”	positive	judgement: normality (esteem)

David Rose Negatively Judging Halliday And Matthiessen

David Rose wrote to sys-func and sysfling on 26 March 2015 at 09:20:

My own view is that this omission [of Martin’s discourse semantic systems from IFG by Matthiessen and Halliday] 

has as much to do with personal institutional politics within the SFL leadership*, 

as it does with the relative merits of the theory.

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
Matthiessen and Halliday omitting Martin’s discourse semantic systems from IFG	negative	judgement: propriety
Martin’s discourse semantic theory	negative	appreciation

*I thought we were an autonomous collective:

David Rose Positively Judging Himself

David Rose wrote to sys-func and sysfling on 26 March 2015 at 09:20:

But perhaps they [Matthiessen and Halliday] were both biased, as Rose had studied and applied their theory and methods so devotedly.

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
Matthiessen and Halliday	negative	judgement: propriety
David Rose	positive	judgement: tenacity

David Rose Quoting Positive Appraisals Of Himself

David Rose provided the following quotes about himself to sys-func and sysfling on 26 March 2015 at 09:20:

“It seems entirely appropriate to say that [Rose] is a semiotic reincarnation of B.L. Whorf...”

“Rose thus clearly belongs to the class of once-in-a-blue moon scholars that Whorf belonged to”

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
David Rose	positive	appreciation
David Rose	positive	judgement: capacity
David Rose	positive	appreciation
David Rose	positive	judgement: capacity

Misplaced Positive Affect For David Rose's Text Analysis

Meriel Bloor wrote to sys-func and Sysfling on 22 March 2015 at 04:21:

But I liked David Rose's stratal tension account very much.

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
David Rose's stratal tension account	positive	affect

Notes About Rose's Stratal Tension Account

In the list posting (here), Rose misrepresents lexicogrammar as discourse semantics, and

1. mistakes the interpersonal metafunction for the logical (as demonstrated here);
2. mistakes the textual metafunction for the experiential (as demonstrated here);
3. mis-identifies the Theme of a clause (as demonstrated here);
4. speaks of the text when claiming to speak of register and context, and totally misinterprets the context that the text construes and realises (as demonstrated here).

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This positive feedback immediately triggered in Rose what Bartlett referred to, in response, as "poorly disguised invective", followed by Rose's positive self-judgements recorded later on this blog.