Friday, 30 August 2024

"Feelings" vs "Faux Feelings"

The distinction between 'feelings' and 'faux feelings' is the distinction between inner and outer experience, as distinguished grammatically by the domain of attribution: semiotic vs material.

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 260, 272-3).

Tuesday, 6 August 2024

The Speech Function Of Silence


* William Armour's translation.


By coding the silences in terms of the two potential moves not selected, the disconnect between the two interlocutors is made more apparent. From a social psychology perspective, there is a crucial switch in epistemic authority from Mr Ikeda to Mr Tasaki with the move I treated you.