Textual Paralanguage "Syncing" With Identification And Periodicity

Martin & Zappavigna (2019: 11, 29):

and textual body language is ‘deictic’, syncing with IDENTIFICATION and PERIODICITY ⁱ⁸ systems. 

ⁱ⁸ Semovergent synchronicity is concerned with the syncing of paralanguage with periodic structure composed above and beyond prosodic phonology.

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[1] To be clear, this is the authors' rebranding of the textual dimension of Cléirigh's epilinguistic body language, a type can be deployed with or without spoken language:

	semantics	kinetic expression
textual	eg reference: exophoric vs endophoric; personal vs demonstrative	ø pointing hands, eyes, head exophoric ø pointing to phenomena and metaphenomena in the field of perception endophoric ø pointing to regions of (metaphenomenal) gesturing space as text

[2] To be clear, the meaning of 'deictic' here is in the sense of reference; that is, interpersonal distinctions being used textually. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 624):

… it seems quite likely that reference first evolved as a means of linking ‘outwards’ to some entity in the environment. So, for example, the concept of ‘he’ probably originated as ‘that man over there’ – a reference to a person in the field of perception shared by speaker and listener. In other words we may postulate an imaginary stage in the evolution of language when the basic referential category of PERSON was deictic in the strict sense, ‘to be interpreted by reference to the situation here and now’.

[3] The claim here is that the semogenesis of textual epilinguistic body language — such as pointing gestures that realise exophoric reference — is 'in sync' with the semogenesis of Martin's textual linguistic systems IDENTIFICATION and PERIODICITY. In the case of IDENTIFICATION, presented below is the system (Martin & Rose 2007: 183) that the authors claim that the meanings of simple pointing gestures 'sync with':

[4] To be clear, Martin's (1992) discourse semantic system of IDENTIFICATION is his rebranding of Halliday & Hasan's (1976) grammatical reference, a system of the textual metafunction which Martin confuses with ideational denotation and the interpersonal deixis of the nominal group (evidence here). Moreover, as will be seen, the authors do not provide any genuine examples in support of their contention.

[5] To be clear, the discourse semantic system of PERIODICITY (Martin & Rose 2007: 187-218) is a reworking of what Martin (1992: 393) regarded as interaction patterns between strata. The notions of method of development and point were taken from Fries (1981), and the term hyper-Theme from Daneš (1974), but misunderstood. Martin's model confuses writing pedagogy with linguistic theory (evidence here), and rebrands the pedagogical terms as follows:

• macro-Theme is Martin's rebranding of introductory paragraph 
• hyper-Theme is Martin's rebranding of topic sentence, 
• hyper-New is Martin's rebranding of paragraph summary 
• macro-New is Martin's rebranding of text summary 

The authors' absurd claim, then, is that gestures accompanying speech are synchronised with categories to guide effective writing. Unsurprisingly, the authors do not provide any genuine examples in support of their contention, as will be seen.