The Reason For Using Martin's Discourse Semantics

Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 4):

We also feel that further development of Martinec’s pioneering modelling is timely in light of theoretical and descriptive developments in SFL since his work. This has mainly to do with proposals for the stratification of language as levels of phonology, lexicogrammar and discourse semantics (e.g. Martin, 2010, 2011b; Martin and Rose, [2003] 2007); this model of stratification is the one adopted for this book. Martinec’s work draws largely on Halliday’s lexicogrammatical systems (those proposed in Halliday, 1985), the same systems which inspired Kress and van Leeuwen’s (1990) breakthrough. We have found it illuminating to further develop this work by drawing on ideational, interpersonal and textual systems at the level of discourse semantics (IDEATION, APPRAISAL, IDENTIFICATION and PERIODICITY in particular).

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[1] This pretext for using Martin's stratification is deliberately misleading. This model of stratification was proposed in Martin (1992), but it is omitted from the references because it precedes Martinec (2002) by a decade.

[2] To be clear, the reason for Martin and his group using Martin's model is that it is Martin's model. For the serious problems that invalidate Martin's model, see the Review of Martin (1992).

See also Drawing On Martin's Discourse Semantics To Model Paralanguage.