Saturday 18 April 2020

Logogenetic Chains

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 607):
… the cohesive selections in a text form logogenetic patterns. In the case of conjunction, such patterns take the form of favoured selections of logico-semantic relations for developing the text rhetorically. In the case of the other types of cohesive resources, such patterns take the form of logogenetic chains – chains of reference, ellipsis and lexical cohesive links, and of interactions among such chains within and across different types of cohesion.

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To be clear, this confuses paradigm (choice) with syntagm (chain):  logogenetic patterns are patterns of paradigmatic choices, whereas chains link items syntagmatically.