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Gerot Wignell, 1994: 58 Mental process of perception hear, see, etc
Thompson, 1996:85 Mental process of cognition think, understand, etc
Gerot Wignell, 1994: 58
2.3.2.3 Behavioural process
Behavioral process is a psychological and physiological activities which states of human physical behavior. Some activities indicating behavioral process are
breathing, fainting, coughing, burping, yawning, sleeping, smiling, complaining, laughing, grumbling. The participant in this process is usually called behaver. See
the example taken from Gerot and Wignell 1994:61:
2.3.2.4 Verbal Process
Verbal process is a process of saying. The process of saying functions to reporting, such as remind, deny, and so on. Some verbs used to express the verbal
processes include talk, say, ask, reply, suggest, praise, insult, slander, and flatter. Mark
likes new clothes
Senser Mental process: affection
phenomenon
He heard
a faint sound Senser
Mental process: perception
Phenomenon
I don’t understand
this stuff Senser
Mental process: cognition
Phenomenon
He snores
loudly Behaver
Behavioural process Circ: manner
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It has a participant named ‘sayer’, who is the doer of the process. Other participants who belong to verbal process are target actor who is acted verbally
and verbiage the name of verbalisation, for example:
Gerot and Wignell, 1994:63
2.3.2.5 Existential Process
Existential Process indicates the presence or entity. Semantically, existential process occurs between the material and relational processes. It can be signaled
with some expression like there, was, were, exist.
Gerot and Wignell, 1994:72
2.3.2.6 Meteorological Process
Meteorological process is one kind of transitivity system that represents something related to weather and time. there are few examples of meteorological
process presented below: It’s hot
It’s windy It’s five o’clock
The subject “it” in this context does not represent anything, but it could provide as a subject. The subject “it” only function as an expression of something
presented by nature. John
told Jenny
a rude joke Sayer
Verbal Receiver
Verbiage
There’s a unicorn
in the garden Existential
Existent Circumstance: place
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2.3.2.7 Relational process
