The Flow Of Information

Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 8):

Interpersonal resources are concerned with enacting social relations, ideational resources with construing what is going on and textual resources with composing the flow of information in discourse.

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In contrast, Halliday (2003: 17) argues against the notion of 'information flow':

There was in fact a third systemic cluster: those systems concerned with organising the clause as a message. This is an aspect of what subsequently came to be called "information flow"; but that term suggests that all meaning can be reduced to "information", so I prefer the more inclusive term "discourse flow". These are the systems which create coherent text — text that coheres within itself and with the context of situation.