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Cognition realized by such stative verbs, such as: know, understand, think, realize, forget, consider, believe, etc.
c. Affection dealing with our feeling or heart, such as: like, hate, love, feel, want,
amuse, please, etc. The two participants involve in this process are labeled, by Halliday, as
Senser and Phenomenon. Senser is typically conscious being can perform a mental
process feeling, thinking, seeing. The other participant, Phenomenon, is something or someone that is sensed thought, felt, or perceived by the senser.
The show amused
the king
Phenomenon Mental Process
Senser
She didn’t realize
the difficulties
Senser Mental Process
phenomenon
2.2.3 Relational process
Relational processes Halliday 1994: 119 are processes of being whose central meaning is ‘somehing is sttribute or identity of another’. The English system
operates with three main types: 1
Intensive ‘x is a’ 2
Circumstancial ‘x is at a’ 3
Possessive ‘x has a’
Each of these comes in two distinct modes: a
Attributive ‘a is an attribute of x’
b Identifying
‘a is the identity of x’ Attributive
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Intensive In the Attributive mode, an entity has some quality ascribed or attribute to it.
This quality is structurally labeled attribute, and the entity to which it is ascribed is called carrier halliday 1994: 120.
There are four characteristics of Attributive clauses Halliday, 1965: 123, which distinguish them from identifying ones:
a The nominal group functioning as Attributive is typically indefinite: it has
either an adjective or a common noun as Head and, if appropriate, as indefinite article e.g.isare wise, is a poet, are poets. It cannot be a proper noun or
pronoun. b
The verb realizing the Process is one of the ‘ascriptive’ classes: [phase: inceptive] become, turn into, grow into; get, go
[phase: durative] remain, stay as,; keep [phase, appearance] seem, appear, qualify as, turn out, end up as
[phase, sense-perception ] look, sound, smell, feel, taste like c
The probe for such clauses is what?, how?, or what…like? d
These clauses are not reversible: there are no passive forms, such as complete nonsense is sounded by your story.
2. Circumstancial
In the Attributive mode, the circumstantialelement is an attribute that is being ascribed to some entity.
3. Possessive
In the Possessive type, the relationship between the two terms is one of ownership; one entity possesses another. In the Attributive mode, the
possessive relationship may again be expressed either as attribute.
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1. Intensive
In the Identifying mode, some thing has an identity assigned to it. The characteristics of identifying clauses that contrast with those of Attributive clauses
lited above: a
The nominal group realizing the function Identifier is typically definite: it has a common noun as Head, with the or other specific determiner or else a proper noun
or pronoun. The only form with adjective as Head is the superlative. b
The verb realizing the Process is one from the ‘equative’ classes: [role] play, act as, function as, serve as
[sign] mean, indicate, suggest, imply, show, betoken, mark, reflect, [equation] equal, add up to, make
[kindpart] comprise, feature, include [significance] represent, constitute, form
[example] exemplify, illustrate [symbol]express, signify, realize, spell, stand for, mean
[neutral] be, become, remain c
The probe for such clauses is which?, who, whichwho…as? d
These clauses are reversible. All verbs except the neutral be, become, remain have passive forms
2. Circumstancial
In the Identifying mode, the circumstance take the form of a relationship between two entities; one entity is being related to another by a feature of time or
place or manner.
3. Possessive
In the Identifying mode, the possession takes the form of relationship between two entities; and again this may be organized in two ways, with the relationship
being expressed either as a feature of the participant or of a process.
Mode: Type:
Attributive Identifying
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1. Intensive
2. Circumstantial
3. Possessive
Sarah is wise
The fair is on a Tuesday
Peter has a piano Tom is the leader
The leader is Tom Tomorrow is the 10
th
: The 10
th
is tomorow The piano is peter’s
Peter’s is the piano; The six categories of Relational Process Halliday, 1994: 119
2.2.4 Behavioural process
