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
Behavioural processes Halliday 1994: 139 are processes of physiological and psychological behaviour, like breathing, coughing, smiling, dreaming, staring,
snoring, hiccupping, looking, watching, listening, pondering, etc. in addition, those that represent outer manifestations of inner workings, the acting out of processes of
consciousness and physiological states. The participant who is ‘behaving’ labeled Behaver, is typically a conscious being. For example in Gerot and Wignell 1994: 61:
He snores
loudly
Behaver Behavioural Process
Circumstance:manner
She lives
in the fast lane
Behaver Behavioural Process
Circumstance: place
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2.2.5 Existential process
Existential processes Halliday 1994: 142 are processes of expressing that something exists or happens. It is by which phenomena of all kinds are simply
recognized to ‘be’— to exist, or to happen. Frequently an existential clause contains a distinct circumstantial elementof time or place. It also represents experience by
positing that “there wasis something.” In addition, Gerot and Wignell 1994: 72 said that the Existential Processes are expressed by the verbs of existing: ‘be’, ‘exist’,
‘arise’, and the Existent the single participant in this process can be a phenomenon
of any kind. For example:
There was
a blood-stain on the matinee jacket
Existential Process Existent
Circumstance-Place
There ‘s
a man at the door
Existential Process Existent
Circumstance-Place
2.2.6 Verbal process
Verbal processes Halliday 1994: 140 are processes of saying. It is the symbolic relationships constructed in human consciousness and enacted in the form of
language, like saying and meaning. Very often these are realized by two distinct clauses: the projecting clause encodes a signal source Sayer and a signaling Verbal
Process and the other projected clause realizes what was said. The Sayer can be anything that puts out a signal. The projected clause may be either a preposition and a
proposal may be expressed alternatively by modulated declarative clause. The target
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praised him to her friends’. There are three other participants Gerot andWignell 1994: 62 that may be
incumbent upon verbal processes: •
Receiver : the one to whom the verbalization is addressed.
•
Target : one acted upon verbally insulted, complimented, etc
•
RangeVerbiage : a name for the verbalization itself.
For example: John
told Jenny
a rude joke
Sayer Verbal Process
Receiver Verbiage
Keating slurred
Howard
Sayer Verbal Process
Target
2.3 Related Study