Thursday, 29 March 2018

David Rose Negatively Judging Michael Halliday And Positively Judging Jim Martin And Himself

David Rose wrote to sysfling on 24 March 2018 at 07:30:
It is a loose definition [in Cohesion In English (Halliday & Hasan 1976)] as collocation is an intuitive category, that Halliday took from Firth but did not develop. It was re-conceptualised and systemically described by Martin 1992 as ideational discourse semantics, specifically the taxonomic lexical relations of repetition, synonymy, contrast, hyponymy and meronymy.

A full account, including history of collocation, is in Ch 5 in

Martin, J R 1992 English Text: system and structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

A shorter account is in Ch 3 in

Martin, J.R. & Rose, D. (2007). Working with Discourse: meaning beyond the clause. London: Continuum (1st edition 2003)

Blogger Comments:

Appraised
Appraisal
Polarity
Attitude
Firth & Halliday's 'collocation'
negative
appreciation: composition
Michael Halliday
negative
judgement: tenacity
 Jim Martin (1992)
positive
judgement: capacity
Jim Martin & David Rose (2003/7)
positive
judgement: capacity

  1. For a critique of the ideational content of this post, see David Rose On Collocation.
  2. For a critique of the ideational content of Martin (1992), see Martin's Discourse Semantics, Register & Genre.
  3. For a critique of the ideational content of Martin & Rose (2007), see Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007).