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grammatical representation, the realization of the speech functions encompasses the mood system.
Speech functions are derived from the relationship between speech roles of either giving or demanding and the commodity being exchanged of either
information or goods--services. Giving information makes up the speech function of a statement, while giving goods--services constitute the speech
function of an offer. Similarly, demanding information comprises the question, while demanding goods--services constitute a command. Each of the four
speech functions in the form of initiation may be responded in two manners, either expected or discretionary. Table 8 shows each corresponding response and
its example.
Table 8: Speech Functions and Their Responses Speech Functions Initiation
Response Expected
Discretionary
Question Answer
Disclaimer When will she go there?
Tomorrow. I’m not sure
Statement She will go there tomorrow.
Offer Acknowledgement Contradiction
Shall I come to dinner tonight? Yeah. No.
Command Come here for dinner tonight
Speech functions are realized by certain grammatical construction involving the system of mood. The mood system is the primary system in the
interpersonal metafunction consisting of the structural realization of Mood and Residue. The Mood is the nub of an argument, carrying the argument forward
Matthiessen et al., 2010. It consists of Subject and Finite. Meanwhile Residue is
known as the part of the clause which does not constitute the Mood element in the mood structure. It encompasses Predicator, Complement and circumstantial
Adjunct. In this construction, Mood element holds a significant role of determining the mood types. It is the possible ordering of Subject and Finite which
makes up the different mood types corresponding to the selection of speech functions.
Generally, there are two main types of mood construction, the indicative and the imperative. Both are identified by the commodity being
exchanged respectively corresponding to the information and goods--services. The indicative mood can be more specifically divided into the declarative and
interrogative mood types, with the latter can still be separated into three more detailed categories of yesno-interrogative, WH-interrogative, and modulated
interrogative. Additionally, there is also the exclamative which is a particular kind of declarative but having its own distinct structure and in some cases, there are
clauses with no known mood structure identified as the minor clauses. Declarative mood corresponds to the speech function of a statement. It
is characterized by the order of Subject before Finite. I
went to the party last night.
Subject Finite Residue
Mood
Figure 7: Example of Declarative Mood Structure
Yesno-interrogative realizes the speech function of a polar question. Its structure basically begins with the Finite followed by the Subject.
Did you
find the item? Finite
Subject Residue
Mood
Figure 8: Example of Yesno-interrogative Mood Structure
WH-interrogative represents the grammatical construction of a content question.
Its structure depends on the functions the WH-element is conflated with Halliday, 1994. If it is conflated with the Subject, the order is Subject Finite,
with the WH-element ‘Who’ being the Subject. If it is conflated with Complement or Adjunct, the order is WH-element Finite Subject, with the WH-element
being part of the Residue. Who
came with you yesterday?
Subject Finite Residue
Mood
Figure 9: Example of WH-interrogative Mood Structure with the WH- element as Subject
Why did
you leave early last night?
AdjunctWH- Finite Subject Mood
Residue
Figure 10: Example of WH-interrogative Mood Structure with the WH- element as Adjunct
Imperative deals with the exchange of goods--services, and thus realizes both the command and offer Matthiessen et al., 2010. The unmarked
form of an imperative can only consist of a Predicator or Predicator and other elements of the Residue Halliday, 1994; Lock, 1996. The Subject or Finite, if
exists in the imperative mood, shows the markedness of the person or the polarity.