A Behavioural Process involves the role of conscious being, and it never takes present progressive tense Eggins, 1994:250.
c. Mental Process Halliday 1994:105 calls ‘a mental process as the one that encodes
meaning of thinking and feeling’. Therefore, the mental process can be probed by the question
‘What do you thinkfeel about X?’ Eggins also suggests that when probing a mental process is done; what is asked is about the mental reactions; they can be
cognition realized by verbs of thinking, knowing, understanding, affection
realized by verbs of liking, fearing, and perception realized by verbs of seeing,
hearing. The participant that a mental process is associated with must be at least
two 2. One of them should be a conscious human since it is just a conscious human that can be a Senser acting as an active participant. The other participant is
the passive one and it is called Phenomenon.
For example: He
knew all the problem
before you came Senser Pr:mental Phenomenon
Cir:time
d. Verbal Process
A verbal process is realized by a verb of saying and all verbs that means the such;
such as; tell, ask, talk, etc. It usually has three participants; Sayer, Receiver, and Verbiage.
For example: The victim
tells Me
all her problem Sayer Pr:verbal
Receiever Verbiage
Sometime the clause that has a Verbal Process is in a direct speech as the example below.
The prince says: “I love You”
Sayer Pr:V Verbiage
Senser Pr:mental Phen In the example above example, the Verbiage is in the form of a clause “I love
you”. That Verbiage itself can be divided into its constituents as shown. e. Relational Process
A relational process involves state of being including having Gerot, et al. 1994:67. There are two main kinds of relational processes, namely an attributive
relational process and an identifying one. The former has a function as to identify something and has two participants; Carrier and Attribute. The Attribute is usually
in the form of ephitet, for example: The princess
has been sick
for years Carrier Pr:
relational Attribute
Cir:time The identifying relational process which is used to qualify something
usually has two participants; Token and Value, for example:
The father has been
a teacher since 1998
Token Pr: Rel:
identify Value
Cir:time
Halliday points out that ‘semantically, the Token will be a “sign, name, holder or occupant” of a Value, which gives the “meaning, referent, function, status or role
to the Token” Halliday, 1985:115. In the example, the Token is The father acting as holder
and the Value is a teacher acting as referent. Sometimes it is difficult to identify whether a relational process is
identifying or attributive; Gerot, et al. 1994:68 suggest that the clue to identify them is by reversing the two participants. An identifying process is reversible and
the reversing does not change the meaning semantically, for example: Susilo Bambang Yudoyono
Is the president of Indonesia
Token Pr:Rel: inden:int
Value When the Value’s and the Token’s positions are exchanged, the meaning remains
the same, such as follows: The president of Indonesia
Is Susilo Bambang Yudoyono
Token Pr:Rel: inden:int
Value
f. Existential Process
