Connexion: Meaning Beyond The Clause

Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 14):

In terms of meaning beyond the clause CONNEXION allows us to connect indefinitely long phases of discourse to one another (viz. the long explanation of why subscribers are watching a random chatty vlog rather than a prepared video below):

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Hi everybody it is August first and I’m going to do just a random chatty vlog for you guys.

⇓ (implicit cause)

I had a video for today. I filmed it and I was going to edit it. It was a type one Tuesday. I was showing all the diabetes supplies — like the extra supplies we brought on vacation but I had bent down like before I started filming and my shirt got caught in my bra so it was like sitting — it just — it’s all I could see the whole time so I was like ‘I’m not posting this video ’cause that’s all people would be looking at.’

⇑ (explicit cause)

So this is what you get today.

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To be clear, the 'cause: result' relation in this text is expressed first structurally, and so is not "meaning beyond the clause", and then cohesively, through the textual grammatical system of CONJUNCTION (Halliday & Hasan 1976), which Martin rebrands as his logical discourse semantic system of CONNEXION.