The Emergence Of The Authors' Work On Paralanguage

Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 210):

It might seem anticlimactic to end on a note of caution. But our work on paralanguage from an SFL perspective is still embryonic, especially with respect to the range of registers we have considered. As noted in Chapter 1, our work emerged in studies of New South Wales Youth Justice Conferencing (Zappavigna and Martin, 2018) – and so involved fairly formal interactions between younger offenders, support persons, police officers, youth workers and a convenor.

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To be clear, the model of paralanguage that emerged in studies of New South Wales Youth Justice Conferencing in 2009 was entirely the work of Cléirigh alone. Not one of these authors played any part whatsoever in even contributing to that model. The plagiarism throughout this work has been effected through myriad small steps.