2. Pre-naming to preempt misread
Halliday’s interpersonal-metafunction priority over ideational.
22. Discourse-analytic
Halliday · Fairclough · Wodak
The readings follow the same through-line order used throughout the system, making it possible to compare what this lens changes from one idea to the next.
5. Volume-matching without ego competition
Volume-and-medium calibration as discourse-feature.
7. Frame-correction over self-defence
Fairclough’s critical-discourse analysis applied to conversational frame-shifts.
8. Calibration language over characterological language
Halliday’s calibrative-vs-categorical distinction.
12. Receiving without escalating
Volume-calibration on the receiving-side.
13. Honesty about state taking precedence over the fitting response
Interpersonal-metafunction priority that includes naming the speaker’s state.
15. Refusal to be the conversational centre, even where the medium invites it
Turn-yielding and floor-management.