John Bateman Positively Judging His Own Capacity

John Bateman wrote to sysfling on 2 November 2017 at 19:10:

I guess I should say something since the word 'space' came up.... for variety, spice and funny symbols, see:

• Bateman, J. A. Language and Space: a two-level semantic approach based on principles of ontological engineering. International Journal of Speech Technology, Springer, 2010, 13, 29-48.

and for this as a further refinement of Michael and Christian's Construing Experience:

• Bateman, J. A.; Hois, J.; Ross, R. J. & Tenbrink, T. A linguistic ontology of space for natural language processing Artificial Intelligence, 2010, 174, 1027-1071

Blogger Comments:

[1] The interpersonal function of this is to alert the SFL community to the fact that Bateman is, by his own admission, the acknowledged expert on 'space'.

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
John Bateman	positive	judgement: capacity

[2] The interpersonal function of this is to alert the SFL community to the fact that Bateman has the capacity to further refine Halliday & Matthiessen (1999).

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
John Bateman	positive	judgement: capacity

For more on this post, see also:

• The Transitivity Of Bamboozlement, and
• John Bateman On "The 'Space' Between A Grammatically-Induced Semantics And Any Contextualised Use Of Involved Grammatical Constructions".

For a critical examination of Bateman's understanding of SFL theory, see here or here.

Tom Bartlett Negatively Appreciating IFG And Negatively Judging Halliday & Matthiessen

Tom Bartlett replied to Michael O'Donnell on Sysfling on 12 October 2017 at 19:48:

When we discuss concepts such as transitivity on the list there are three (at least) possible things we are doing … 

2. Suggesting the IFG analysis is wrong in its own terms - i.e. accepting the logic of IFG but suggesting this logic has been wrongly applied. This often happens when we discuss behaviourals as they now seem to be dotted about in various self-contradictory places in IFG itself.

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
Introduction to Functional Grammar	negative	appreciation: reaction: quality
Michael Halliday (ed. Christian Matthiessen)	negative	judgement: capacity
the discussion of behavioural processes in Introduction to Functional Grammar	negative	appreciation: composition: balance

Blogger Comments:

Misrepresenting Halliday's work is part of the culture of Fawcett's Cardiff Grammar community, as  previously demonstrated here (IFG) and here (CETM), and currently being demonstrated here (misrepresentation), and here (Halliday).

See also Tom Bartlett Misrepresenting IFG On Behavioural Processes.