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.