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Bateman (1998: 26): If one goes searching for ‘holes’, then holes there are enough —  indeed, Martin already draws explicit attention to ...

Bateman (1998: 25-6): For all its complexity, I have used chapters of the book with few problems with students of varying experience — in...

Bateman (1998: 25): It also requires, as with many things, an appropriate attitude when working with the book: English Text is clearly a...

Bateman (1998: 25): Concerning a precursor to the model presented in English Text , Martin wrote: “... one needs a model of text in con...

Bateman (1998: 25):  One of the difficulties in approaching English Text is at the same time one of the principal reasons for making the...

Bateman (1998: 25):  Both differences reinforce the central role that discourse plays in the construction of a comprehensive semantics th...

Bateman (1998: 24-5):  And second, a very different kind of semantics needs to be pursued when a ‘metafunctionally diverse’ grammar is as...

Bateman (1998: 24):  Two essential differences between these approaches [cognitive linguistics and mainstream syntax] and that pursued by...

Bateman (1998: 24):  Moreover, in certain respects, the approach in English Text also becomes more easily reconcilable, or at least, com...

Bateman (1998: 23-4): The availability of the two strata, lexicogrammar and discourse semantics, is presented as beneficial in most areas...

Bateman (1998: 23): The lack of neighbouring occupants at both more and less abstract levels of description with respect to ‘grammar’ ha...

Bateman (1998: 23): It is also certainly not the case that Martin’s approach is uncontroversial, even within his own functional tradition...

Bateman (1998: 23): Concerning the substantive content of the book, it is not possible that one would agree with all of the claims and an...

Bateman (1998: 22-3): Even I am not quite sure about Figure 5.23 , which sets out the subtypes of nuclear lexical relations in IDEATION...

Bateman (1998: 22): An example of one of the more superficial presentational problems is the ready use made of system networks for a numb...

Bateman (1998: 22): Fortunately, some of the discussions of English Text and the work out of which English Text has grown have already ...

Bateman (1998: 21): And, even if the reader is not yet ready to follow Martin’s proposal that English Text is to be read “(in part) in t...

Bateman (1998: 21): Martin himself draws attention to some of the ways in which the theory will have to be extended, including the move ...

Bateman (1998: 21): The stratified model of context argued for by Martin in this chapter has now been extensively applied in a range of s...

Bateman (1998: 21): Explicit reference is made at the outset of the chapter [p494] to the very compatible work of Bakhtin (e.g,. 1986). ...

Bateman (1998: 21): Networks are set out for each of the three main metafunctional regions of register — ‘mode’, ‘tenor’ and ‘field’ — a...

Bateman (1998: 20-1): Finally, in Chapter 7 [pp493-590], Martin presents in detail the motivations for the proposal set out in, for examp...

Bateman (1998: 20): Martin also proposes here some valuable additions: particularly in the area of text structure, with the text-scale st...