Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics

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  • Problems With Irrealis vs Realis Affect
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  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-New
  • Exemplifying Cléirigh's Model Without Acknowledgement
  • Not Acknowledging The Intellectual Source Of 'Social Distance' And 'Proximity'
  • Misrepresenting Protolinguistic Paralanguage As Evidence Against The Category [2]
  • Confusing Functional Syntagmatic Relations With Formal Constituency
  • Misrepresenting Cléirigh's Model As The Authors' Innovation
  • Misunderstanding Paralanguage As An Expression-Only Semiotic System
  • Crediting Martin With The Ideas Of Others

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  • Metafunctional Oppositions
  • The Flow Of Information
  • On The Truth Of The Authors' Claim That They Didn't Relate Paralanguage To Grammatical Structure
  • Confusing Semantic Content With Its Paralinguistic Expression
  • Confusing Semantic Entities With The Gestures That Realise Them

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  • Misrepresenting Sonovergence As Semovergence
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  • Problems With The Semovergence Of Discourse Semantics And Paralanguage
  • The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • The View Of Paralanguage As ‘Outside’ Language
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  • Misrepresenting Sonovergence As Semovergence
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  • Problems With The Semovergence Of Discourse Semantics And Paralanguage
  • Some Of The Problems With The Paralinguistic System Networks
  • Syntagmatic Units Of Content And Notional Definitions Of Metafunctions
  • Drawing, Music And Dance As Creolised Paralanguage And The Authors' Model Of Intermodality
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