In The Absence Of Isochronicity Or Synchrony

This question was asked by Jim Martin on the asflanet discussion list. Strangely, he received no replies. Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 272): 

So the more the extent of grammatical metaphor in a text, the more that text is loaded against the learner, and against anyone who is an outsider to the register in question. It becomes elitist discourse, in which the function of constructing knowledge goes together with the function of restricting access to that knowledge, making it impenetrable to all except those who have the means of admission to the inside, or the select group of those who are already there. It is this other potential that grammatical metaphor has, for making meaning that is obscure, arcane and exclusive, that makes it ideal as a mode of discourse for establishing and maintaining status, prestige and hierarchy …

How SFL Theory Accounts For The Structure Marker 'Of'

The structure marker of is analysed as a constituent of the embedded prepositional phrase serving as Postmodifier in the logical structure of a nominal group:

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 425):

We noted above that prepositional phrases serve either as Adjunct or as Postmodifier. The exception is prepositional phrases with of, which normally occur only as Postmodifier; the reason is that they are not typical prepositional phrases, because in most of its contexts of use of is functioning not as minor Process/Predicator but rather as a structure marker in the nominal group (cf. to as a structure marker in the verbal group).

Korean Nominal Group With 2 Epithets

Decoding The Politicised Aesthetics Of Appreciation By Reference To The Moral Passion Plays Of Judgement

the politicised aesthetics of appreciation	has recontextualised	the moral passion plays of judgement
Identified Token	Process: identifying: circumstantial: spatio-temporal	Identifier Value

This ineffable twaddle is from Working With Discourse (Martin & Rose 2007: 40), and critiqued here.

The Problem Of Internal Bracketing

generic [structure potential] — the original concept in Hasan (1985): potential semantic structure of texts of a given type (genre)

[generic structure] potential  — the misreading by Martin (1992): potential structure of a genre

Turning SFL Metalanguage Back Onto Martin's Stratified Context

register	realises	genre
Token	Process: relational	Value
a language sub-potential	realises	a text type
a text type  [[viewed from the system pole]]	realises	a register  [[viewed from the instance pole]]