Martin, J.R & Zappavigna, M. (2013). Beyond redemption: choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing. In Fang Yan & J Webster [Eds.] Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics:theory and application. London: Equinox. pp. 18-47. [reprinted in Forensic Linguistics 2012. 227-257]

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2 Beyond redemption: choice and
consequence in youth justice
conferencing
J. R. Martin, Michele Zappavigna and Paul Dwyer*
2.1 Teenage identity in youth justice conferencing
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           
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Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
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al.







ferences may well get off to a slow start, but suggest that they transform into




 

With such recognition
comes an avalanche of shame, after which the individual is likely
to express remorse, accept the forgiveness of all concerned, and


     


      


      the regular tangible, visible
progression through clearly marked stages of tension, anger,
shame, remorse, apology, forgiveness, relief, and cooperation.

  


   
  
 



Beyond redemption

 


        

   et al  

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
2.2 Realization, instantiation and individuation

Halliday et al

     

tory see Hasan et al
         


et al
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Figure 2.1: Realization (strata, rank and metafunction)

Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics

  

       
    



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Figure 2.2: Realization (language, register and genre)
 
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          


   

 
  

Beyond redemption
         
     


     


Table 2.1: Halliday’s instantiation/strati cation matrix
STRATI-
FICATION
INSTANTIATION
system
context
semantics
lexico-
grammar
culture
institution
situation
type
register
text type
semantic
system
grammatical
system
situations
[text as]
meanings
[text as]
wordings
register
text type
sub-system
instance system instance
lexico
-
grammar
text type
system
grammatical
system
[text as]
meanings
[text as]
register

  
 
 
    


 

 
a whole, it sits one rung down on the instantiation hierarchy, on the way


     



Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
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




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Figure 2.3: Instantiation as a hierarchy of generalization



    






     
communities as a whole along these lines:

  
  
          



 



           

Beyond redemption
          
 


la langue
exists only in the collectivité  
      



        personae    

bundle of personae



 
          




         
        
tics may learn something from the sciences which treat human
       
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     
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         
 
 in
       



  
   

Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
 



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 
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Figure 2.4: Individuation as a hierarchy of aliation and allocation
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tion resources of their culture.

Beyond redemption
2.3 Adolescent identity in youth justice conferencing
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
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
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YP
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and got us.
Convenor
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[Train tracks]
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Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics

and then we started running down the road and we came across
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YP: Yeah.
Convenor
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     

concerned:
[Train tracks]
Convenor: 
this incident?
YP: 


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Convenor:

YP:


Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics



            
  


 


 



          
         
       

          



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 
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    

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
   
  
Figure 2.5: YP personae topology for the commissioned recount genre

Beyond redemption

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





Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
ER+
ER-
SR+
SR -
elite
relativist
knowledge
knower
epistemic relation
social
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Figure 2.6: Maton’s 2007 topology of specialization codes in educational contexts
2.4 Youth Liaison Ocer (YLO) interventions

     
     



            


       


    




either a caution or a conference the line between cautions and conferences
       

with through a caution.

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

     






[‘shopping trolley’]
YLO:
about how you were worried about committing an offence and,
  
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 
      
  
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
 
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[‘mobile phone’]
YLO: 





a lot of the times, because they idolise their big brother, or their


Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics

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



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
        



away.
[‘mobile phone’]
YLO:



         





[‘shopping trolley’]
YLO: 
 




   
  
  

  
    


        

Beyond redemption









Don’t do thisdo this
You s ho u ld n ’t d o t hi syou should do thisI’d like you to do
thisI’d prefer you not to do this

  
       
    You
should not take the wrong fork in the roadYou can go this
way or you can go this wayIf you go X way then Y will happen. Here


 

you turn eighteen, and if you continue this pattern now, it

difference to you.

… if he’s going to continue going down that track, do you

… if he is doing stuff and you’re with him
same sort of trouble.
So, if he is one of your really good friends 
you need to really start to question what you are going to do

some big trouble.

If you work for a bank 
 

Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics

 if you want to go for
that job.
If you had a robbery offence on your record and you went

trade?

if your mum or sister was on that train, how would you feel,

because, if you’d ever been robbed




    

     






          could


could
  might        could
      could  


  could
could
can

is consequences:

Beyond redemption
[‘mobile phone’]

consequences 
      consequences 
consequences for you,
let alone the rest of your family.
consequences, and if you


[‘shopping trolley’]
conse-
quences
consequences






   


options anymore. You understand that?
 
opportunities


choiceschoices.
       

opportunity

Good things may


Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
You might
couldcould


 

that you can
can
go that way, or you can go that way.
can choose which way you are going to be.
and only you can learn. You cancan
can

     

         



Figure 2.7: Constellation of negatively charged consequences

Beyond redemption

       

Figure 2.8: Constellation of positively charged choices
  
  



 
       

    
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
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Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
cos-
mology     
 
  

        
      

       
     

understand how such an axiological cosmology 
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con-
stellations         
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


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        
 
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     
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         
       
        
       
stays out of trouble for fear of being caught, and a delinquent YP who gets
            









Beyond redemption







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


 

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Figure 2.9: YP personae topology for the YLO conference ‘caution’
-ER
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prodigal
redeem ed
accused
guilty
           


irrational
rational
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community
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law-abiding
reint egrated
delinquent
crimin al
          
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
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REDEMPTION
REINTEGRATION
Figure 2.10: Retrospective and prospective identities in Youth Justice Confer-
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Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
2.5 Identity and Community

         


          
      




     
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     


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     
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       
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and the rich manual analysis SFL currently enables is too limited as far as
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Figure 2.11: Realization, instantiation and individuation in relation to genesis
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Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
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
New Discourse
-
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

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
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
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The Linguistic Sciences
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Continuum Companion to Systemic
Functional Linguistics.
  Language, Society and Consciousness. The
Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan
Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and Sociolinguistics. Lon
The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan
Continuing Dis-
course on Language: A Functional Perspective
Continuing Dis-
course on Language: A Functional Perspective
          
         New Discourse on


English Text: System and Structure
      
Text and Context in Func-
tional Linguistics, 

Communication in Linguis-
tics: Papers in Honour of Michael Gregory, 


Linguistics and the Human Sciences 

.
Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication  


  
Questioning Linguistics,
.

DELTA – Documentação de Estudos em
Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada 
         
New Discourse on


  Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the
Clause 
Genre Relations: Mapping Culture. London:
Equinox.
The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in
English

Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
        
Linguistics and Human
Communication

  
Questioning Linguistics, .
Scholars Publishing.


Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning, 

          

Appliable Linguistics: Texts, Contexts, and Meanings.
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
Linguistics & Education
        
 Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy:
Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives, 
tinuum.

ideas?

        
Social Realism, Knowledge and the
Sociology of Education: Coalitions of the Mind, .
  
   Bernstein’s Sociology of
Knowledge
 Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist Sociology of
Education.
 Social Realism, Knowledge and the Sociol-
ogy of Education: Coalitions of the Mind.

Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Func-
tional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives, 14
Systemic Functional Gram-
mar: A First Step into the Theory. 


Towards a Sociology of Pedagogy: The Contri-
bution of Basil Bernstein to research, . 
   
 Family
Conferencing and Juvenile Justice: The Way Forward or Misplaced Opti-
mism?

Beyond redemption
The Annual of Psychoanal-
ysis
      
New Discourse
-
tion, 
An Evaluation of the NSW Youth Justice Conferencing Scheme.

 Meaning in Context: Strategies for Implementing Intelli-
gent Applications of Language Studies

Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional
Perspective


ASFLA 2007 Proceedings.



Appliable Linguistics: Texts, Con-
texts, and Meanings
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