Misrepresenting Halliday (1993)

Fawcett (2010: 77):

The picture of the nature of language that one gets from "Systemic theory" [Halliday 1993] is fascinatingly different from that given in "Categories" — and indeed, as we shall see in the next chapter, from the picture of language given in IFG. It is of course to be expected that it should be different from "Categories", since that paper appeared over thirty years earlier, but it is at first sight surprising that "Systemic theory" is so different from IFG (whose second edition was published just a year after it, in 1994). 

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Unsurprisingly, given the foregoing, as will be seen in the examination of Fawcett's Chapter 5, the theoretical differences here are not between Halliday's IFG and Halliday (1993), but between Fawcett's understanding of Halliday's IFG and  Fawcett's understanding of Halliday (1993).