Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: xiii):
This book is based on a series of workshops involving the authors held at the University of Sydney, beginning in January 2016. Their goal was to further develop the work on paralanguage, which was developed as part of the research on Youth Justice Conferencing consolidated in Zappavigna & Martin (2018). Chris Cléirigh, who worked as a research assistant on that project, was a key figure in developing the model deployed in that work.
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This is seriously misleading. Cléirigh was not "a" key figure; he was the only figure who not only developed the model of body language in the original research project on Youth Justice Conferencing, but created it in the first place. Not one of the authors of this book played any role whatsoever in creating or developing that model.
The series of workshops involving the authors at the University of Sydney, beginning in January 2016, were held in their attempt merely to understand Cléirigh's model. Cléirigh had declined Martin's invitation for him to drive the 200km/3.5 hour round trip to the university and back, and do unpaid work for full-time academics, at a time when he had no income whatsoever.
The invitation was made in 2015 when Cléirigh was looking after his distraught, grieving father who, wrongly blaming himself for his wife's death from mesothelioma, caused by the asbestos dust in his overalls, was twice admitted to psychiatric emergency for threatening to kill himself, and died in late September that year from discontinuing his heart medication. For more context, see David Rose Falsely Vilifying A Friend Whose Mother Had Just Died Tragically.
That is, Martin was not only setting out to exploit, for his own advantage, someone whose inherited disability prevented him from securing an academic post, but he was also doing so at a time of enormous personal tragedy in Cléirigh's life. For comparable behaviour, see Jim Martin Falsely Accusing The Late Ruqaiya Hasan Of Plagiarism At The Symposium To Honour Her Lifetime Achievements.
The series of workshops in 2016 were followed by a paper in 2019 by Martin & Zappavigna, Embodied Meaning: A Systemic Functional Perspective On Paralanguage, in which the authors rebranded Cléirigh's 'body language' as the authors' 'paralanguage', with Cléirigh's 'linguistic body language' rebranded as the authors' 'sonovergent paralanguage', and Cléirigh's 'epilinguistic body language' rebranded as the authors' 'semovergent paralanguage'. For evidence, see
The Argument That Paralanguage Is An Expression System Of Language
Paralanguage As Language Expression
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