Sunday, 10 March 2024

Misrepresenting Comment Adjuncts

Martin (2013: 76-7):


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[1] To be clear, this network is poorly wired, since there is no need for two sets of wiring from the 'declarative' and 'interrogative' features if the two more delicate systems are represented as conjunctive systems (grouped by a curly bracket).

[2] To be clear, comment Adjuncts, according to Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 190):

express the speaker’s attitude either to the proposition as a whole or to the particular speech function. In other words, the target of the comment may be either ideational (the content of the proposition) or interpersonal (the speech function).

That is, the distinction is not one of 'feeling' vs 'dialogism', since both types express an attitude, and both types — e.g. arguably vs broadly — can serve a dialogistic function.

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