Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics

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  • The Depiction Of Muscle Tension On A Clay Puppet
  • Representation (Ideational Semovergent Paralanguage)
  • A Phonological Analysis Of Tone And Tonicity
  • Using Halliday's Linear Taxonomy Of Complexity To Classify Somatic Behaviours
  • Stratification, System And Axis
  • Why A Delineating Demarcation Gesture Is Neither Deictic Nor Delineating [1]
  • Ideational Grammatical Metaphor
  • Why The Argument For Ideational Convergence (Concurrence) Is Invalid
  • Confusing Discourse Semantics And Expression In A System Network [5]
  • Why The Model Of Paralinguistic Deixis Is Theoretically Invalid

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  • An Inconsistent Use Of 'Semovergent'
  • Confusing Content (Entity Types) With Expression (Gestures)
  • Neither Affect Nor Body Language
  • The Tone Group As A Unit Of Analysis For Paralanguage
  • Misunderstanding Semiosis As Somasis
  • Why The Argument For Ideational Convergence (Concurrence) Is Invalid
  • Accepting The Biological Nature Of Vocal And Facial Expressions Of Emotion
  • De-centring Postures To Soften Focus
  • Confusing Discourse Semantics And Expression In A System Network [5]
  • A Phonological Analysis Of Tone And Tonicity

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  • The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • Misrepresenting Halliday & Matthiessen's Semantics As Martin And Hao's Discourse Semantics
  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-New
  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-Theme
  • Problems With The Semovergence Of Discourse Semantics And Paralanguage
  • The Authors' Hypothesis That Sign Languages Emerged As Creolised Paralanguages
  • Why The Model Of Paralinguistic Periodicity Is Invalid
  • An Inconsistent Use Of 'Semovergent'
  • What The Authors Say They Did vs What The Authors Actually Did
  • Neither Affect Nor Body Language

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  • Problems With The Semovergence Of Discourse Semantics And Paralanguage
  • Some Problems With Paralinguistic Hyper-New
  • Misrepresenting Halliday & Matthiessen's Semantics As Martin And Hao's Discourse Semantics
  • The Fundamental Misunderstanding Behind The Terms 'Sonovergent' And 'Semovergent'
  • The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • Misrepresenting Sonovergence As Semovergence
  • Syntagmatic Units Of Content And Notional Definitions Of Metafunctions
  • Why The Model Of Paralinguistic Periodicity Is Invalid

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