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source Sayer and a signalling Verbal Process and the other projected clauses realises what was said. The participants are Sayer, Target, Receiver, and Verbiage.
Sayer is the signal source, Target is the one acted upon verbally, Receiver is the one to whom the verbalisation is addressed, and Verbiage is a name for the verbalisation
itself. For example:
Peter Parker told Mary Jane his secret Sayer
Verbal Receiver
Verbiage
2.4.2 Relational Processes
Relational processes are Relational, Existential, and Meteorological processes Gerot and Wignell, 1994:67-73. Each of them will be explained as follows.
2.4.2.1 Relational Processes
Relational processes are processes of being and having. They can be classified to assign a quality to something or to identify something. Processes which
assign a quality are called Attributive processes. In Attributive processes, the participant roles are Carrier and Attribute. Whereas processes which establish an
identity are called Identifying processes. In Identifying processes, the participant roles are Token and Value. The easiest way to distinguish between Attributive and
Identifying processes is that Identifying processes are reversible. It means that in Identifying processes, the clause can be reversed in order and the semantic
relationship still holds. Relational processes can be further sub-classified according to whether they are: intensive, possessive or circumstantial.
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For example: Ryan Gosling is the best movie actor
Token Identifying:intensive
Value Final Destination is a horror movie
Carrier Attributive:intensive
Attribute
2.4.2.2 Existential Processes
Existential processes are processes of existence. The processes are expressed by verbs of existing, such as: ‘be’, ‘exist’, ‘arise’ and the participant role is called
Existent. Existent can be a phenomenon of any kind. For example:
There is a cake on the desk Existential
Existent Circumstance:place
2.4.2.3 Meteorological Processes
Meteorological processes are processes of weathering. The ‘it’ in the following examples has no represetational function, but does provide a Subject.
For example: It is windy
Meteorological The types of process and participant in the system of transitivity have been
explained. To make it easier to understand, the examples containing the process types and participants are shown in the table below:
