Verbal Process Definition of Experiential Meaning

36 This is Yours. Carrier Pr: intensive Attributepossessor

2.4.4 Verbal Process

A verbal process typically contains three participants: Sayer, Receiver and Verbiage. The Sayer, the participant responsible for the verbal process, does not have to be a conscious participant although it typically is, nut anything capable of beneficiary of a verbal message, occurring with or without a preposition depending on position in the clause. The verbiage is nominal zed statement of the verbal process: a noun expressing some kind of verbal behavior e.g. statement, questions, retort, answer, and story Eggin, 2004:235. For example: So I asked him A question. Sayer Pr: Verbal Receiver Verbiage Universitas Sumatera Utara 37 The Arab boyfriend told her A lot of rubbish. Sayer Pr: verbal Receiver Verbiage As with all process types. Circumstantial can occur in verbal process. The commonest type is manner circumstantial: They ‘re talking About the news. Sayer Pr: verbal Circ: manner what are they talking About? Circ: manner Sayer Pr: verbal Circ: manner Although many verbal processes occur with a nominal element, Verbiage it is a distinctive feature of verbal processes that they project. That is, like mental processes, verbal from a clause complex, projecting a second clause by either quoting or reporting. But whereas mental processes report or quote ideas, verbal processes quote or report speech or ‘locutions’ in Halliday’s terms. A relationship of interdependence between the two clauses gives quoting or direct speech, whereas a relationship of dependency between projected and projecting clause gives indirect or Universitas Sumatera Utara 38 reported speech. The projecting clause may occur as first or second in the sequence. Analysis must describe the transitivity structure of both the projecting clause the verbal process clause and the projected clause which may be any process type. Directquoted speech: I said can you avoid The scar tissue? Sayer Pr: verbal Receiver actor Pr: material goal Indirectreported speech: I asked them to avoid The scar tissue. sayer Pr: verbal Receiver Pr: material goal Directquoted speech: They pay you you Said Actor Pr; material Client Sayer Pr: verbal Universitas Sumatera Utara 39 Indirectreported speech: You said that they pay You Sayer Pr: verbal Actor Pr: material Client

2.4.5 Behavioral processes