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: