Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics

A Meticulous Review Of Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith and Zappavigna (2022)

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  • The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • Resolving An "Unresolved" Vector
  • On The Truth Of The Authors' Claim That They Didn't Relate Paralanguage To Grammatical Structure
  • The Irrelevance Of 'Somatic Behaviour' To A Model Of Paralanguage
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  • Problems With The System Of The 'Emotion' Spirit
  • Some Of The Problems With The Paralinguistic System Networks
  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-New
  • The Designed Representations Of Body Language On Clay Puppets
  • Misrepresenting Protolinguistic Paralanguage As Evidence Against The Category [1]

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  • Misapplying A Confusion Of Ideational And Interpersonal Meaning To A Representation Of Protolanguage [2]
  • A Problem With The System Of Paralinguistic Graduation (Body)
  • Misrepresenting Protolinguistic Paralanguage As Evidence Against The Category [1]
  • The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • Questioning The Notion Of Protolinguistic Body Language
  • Misrepresenting Protolinguistic Body Language As Non-Semiotic ("Somatic")
  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-New
  • The Notion Of Ideational Triggers For Affect Reconsidered
  • Misrepresenting Protolinguistic Body Language As Either Somatic Or Interpersonal
  • Semovergence Implies Sonovergence

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  • Misrepresenting Sonovergence As Semovergence
  • Drawing, Music And Dance As Creolised Paralanguage And The Authors' Model Of Intermodality
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  • The View Of Paralanguage As ‘Outside’ Language
  • Problems With The Semovergence Of Discourse Semantics And Paralanguage
  • The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • Why The Model Of Paralinguistic Periodicity Is Invalid
  • The Authors' Hypothesis That Sign Languages Emerged As Creolised Paralanguages
  • Some Of The Problems With The Paralinguistic System Networks

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  • Misrepresenting Sonovergence As Semovergence
  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-New
  • The Fundamental Misunderstanding Behind The Terms 'Sonovergent' And 'Semovergent'
  • Syntagmatic Units Of Content And Notional Definitions Of Metafunctions
  • Problems With The Semovergence Of Discourse Semantics And Paralanguage
  • Drawing, Music And Dance As Creolised Paralanguage And The Authors' Model Of Intermodality
  • Some Of The Problems With The Paralinguistic System Networks
  • The Unacknowledged Information Unit

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