Doran (2021):
Blogger Comments:
[1] To be clear, because cohesive relations are non-structural, they do not qualify as a type of structure.
[2] To be clear, for Halliday & Hasan (1976), a text is not a semantic unit with respect to the lexicogrammatical systems of cohesion. However, in terms of semantic systems, a text is a structured semantic unit. Halliday (1985: 318):
A text has structure, but it is semantic, not lexicogrammatical.
[3] To be clear, in SFL Theory, cohesive relations obtain in the unfolding of text, as patterns of instantiation; see Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 594ff).
[4] To be clear, in præsentia means 'for the present'.
[5] To be clear, cohesive relations are neither syntagmatic relations (see [3]), nor types of structure.