I asked
my teacher a question
sayer verbal
receiver verbiage
Human participant She
told me
a rude joke
sayer verbal
receiver verbiage
Human participant The sayer signal sourceneeds not to be a conscious being.
The sign says
“no smoking”
sayer
verbal
signal Participant The alarm clock
screamed
sayer verbal
signal participant
2.2.5 Behavioral Process
Behavioral process is a process of physiological and psychological behavior, like breathing, dreaming, snoring, smiling, hiccupping, looking,
listening, watching, and pondering. Halliday 1994:120 describes the process semantically as a “half way
hour” between mental and material process. It means that, the meanings they realized are midway between materials on the one hand and metals on the other.
They are in part about action that has to be experienced by conscious being.
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There is one obligatory participant: the behaver, and is typically a conscious being like a senser in the mental process clause. But, the process is one of doing, not
sensing, such as: She
lives
in a big city
behaver
behavioral process
Circumstance: place
Behavioral process often occur with circumstantial elements, particularly of manner and clause.
He coughed
loudly
behaver
behavioral process
Circumstance: manner
Behavioral process may contain a second participant that is called as behavior
He smiled
a broad smile
behaver
behavioral process
behavior
2.2.6 Existential Process
Existential process is the process of existence. It represents that something exists or happens. It also represents experience by positing that “there was is
something”. There is
a gateway
in the garden
behaver
Existent
Circumstance: place
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There was
snow on the roof
Existential process
existent
Circumstance: place
On the wall there
hangs a picture of me
Circumstantial: place
existential process existent
There is were
two of us
Existential process
existent
It is easy to identify a clause contains existential process, as the structure involves the use of the word there. “There” has no representational function, it
merely because all English clauses require a subject. The word “There” is left unanalyzed for transitivity. Existential process typically employs the verb “be” or
synonyms such as exists, arise, occur the only obligatory participant in an existential process is called the existent. This participant which usually follows
the “there is there are “ sequence, may be a phenomenon of any kind and is often in fact an event nominalized action.
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2.3 Relevance Study
