Relational Function The Six Types of Experiential Function

2.3.1.1.6 Relational Function

Relational function is the process of being; whose central meaning is something is attribute, identity. English relational functions are categorized into three principal types: 1 Intensive, 2 Circumstantial, and 3 Possessive. Each of these comes in two modes: a attributive, and b identifying, thus extending the English relational functions into six types, Halliday in Sinar 2003: 63 1 Intensive: Attributive Mila is beautiful Carrier Process: Intensive Attribute 2 Intensive: Identifying Jason Is the leader Identified Process: Intensive Identifier 3 Circumstantial: Attributive The meeting Is on a Friday Carrier Process: Intensive AttributeCircumstance 4. Circumstantial: Identifying Yesterday is the second day Identified Process : intensive Identifier Circumstance Duma Sari Lubis : An Analysis Of Experiential Functions In Reader’s Digest Magazine’s Selected Articles, 2008 USU Repository © 2008 5. Possessive: Attribute The king has a queen Carrierpossessor Process : possession Attributepossessed 6. Possessive: Identifying The king owns the queen Identified Process : possessive Identifier In the attribute mode, an entity has some quality ascribed or attributed to it. This quality is structurally labeled Attribute, and the entity to which is ascribed is called Carrier. The Attribute may be a quality intensive, a circumstance of time, place, etc. circumstantial, or a possession possessive. In the identifying mode, an entity is used to identify another entity, their relationship being one of token and value intensive, of phenomenon and circumstance of time, place, etc. circumstantial, or of ownership and possession possessive. The concepts of Token and Value may be generalized among all the three major types of relational processes of the identifying mode. The two structural functions in this mode are called Identified and Identifier. Other than be, there are some intensive verbs like stay, become, turn, go, grow, keep, feel, appear, equal, play, act as, call, mean, define, signify, etc., verbs of possession or ownership such as have, own, belong to, involve, contain, comprise, provide, etc., and circumstantial verbs like takes up, follow, accompany, cost, last, Duma Sari Lubis : An Analysis Of Experiential Functions In Reader’s Digest Magazine’s Selected Articles, 2008 USU Repository © 2008 etc. These verbs may occur in either identifying or attribute clauses, Halliday in Sinar 2003: 64. Bunga is known as the actress Token Process : intensive Value 7. She accompanies me Identified Token Process : circumstantial Identifiervalue 8. I have some money IdentifiedToken Process : Possessive Identifiervalue 9. GSFLT stands for General systemic-functional Linguistic Theory Identified Token Process : intensive Identifiervalue 10. Logical Function Halliday in Sinar 2003: 56 says that Experiential function uses language as representation then; it is realized by that transitivity system, while logical function Duma Sari Lubis : An Analysis Of Experiential Functions In Reader’s Digest Magazine’s Selected Articles, 2008 USU Repository © 2008 uses language as natural logic. It is realized by the clause complexity system of language from the language system, logico-semantic and interdependency relations. For example: Last week, the lecturer explained about Atlantic Ocean and the lecturer explained about Hindi Ocean, too. Lost week The lecturer explained about Atlantic Ocean And the lecturer explained about Hindi ocean, too. Logico-Semantic relations Primary Interdependency relations secondary

2.3.2 Interpersonal Function