An Approach "Inspired" By Cléirigh’s "Contributions"

Martin & Zappavigna (2019: 1, 2, 28n):

In this paper we introduce a social semiotic framework for analysing paralanguage. Our approach was inspired by Chris Cléirigh’s contributions¹ to New South Wales Youth Justice Conferencing research consolidated in Zappavigna and Martin (2018) and Martin and Zappavigna (2018). Cléirigh’s work drew on Matthiessen’s synopses (Matthiessen 2004; Matthiessen 2007; Matthiessen 2009) of Systemic Functional Linguistic (hereafter SFL) research on early child language development. …

There are a number of reasons why our SFL interpretation of paralanguage is timely.

¹ Cléirigh’s paper is titled ‘Gestural and postural semiosis: a systemic-functional linguistic approach to ‘body language’; his model informs work published as Zappavigna et al. (2010), Hood (2011), Martin (2011), Martin et al. (2013), Martin & Zappavigna, 2018, Zappavigna and Martin (2018).

Blogger Comments:

This is misleading.  As will be seen in future posts, the approach in this paper isn't just "inspired" by Cléirigh's work, it uses it, and at times, presents Cléirigh's ideas as the authors' own work.  It will also be seen that the authors misunderstand Cléirigh's work and rebrand it, furthering the impression that it is their own.