How Language Represents the World in Blitar, East Java
HOW LANGUAGE REPRESENTS THE WORLD IN BLITAR, EAST JAVA
In the SFL account the ideational strand of meaning in fact involves two components: that of experiential meaning in the clause (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004) and that of the logical meaning between clauses in clause complexes. Experiential meaning is expressed through the system of Transitivity or process type, with the choice of process implicating associated participant roles and configurations.
Blitar is a city in East Java, lies between Malang of which language is assumed to be direct and earnest and Tulungagung where people speak cautiously based on the degree of politenes. The language they use is in common with other Austronesian languages, and spoken differently depending to the social context.
Like other languages, the centre of Blitarese clausal system is the verbal group construing the process and interacts through a variety of participant roles.
PACKAGING EXPERIENCE
In Blitarese, process and participant can be presented as the following : a. Expressing what one knows about what does to whom under what circumstances : Participant Agus Kucinge Participant Kucinge Danang Participant Lik Pri Asune Participant Ibu Process ipant dolan . caring. Process ipant nggondhol nemu Process ipant tindak mlayu Process ipant tumbas Participant iwak duit Circumstance Participant nang Malang nang ratan Participant pisang Circumstance Participant nang pasar
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b. However, to draw someone’s attention, one may say the process before the participant. The word/phrase spoken before the last participant is the most important part of the clause : Process Participant ipant Dolan Caring Agus kucinge
Process ipant Tindak Mlayu
Circumstance nang Malang nang ratan
Participant Lik Pri asune
Process ipant Nggondhol Nemu Process ipant Tumbas
Participant iwak duit Participant pisang
Participant kucinge Danang Circumstance Participant nang pasar Participant Ibu
c. Finite is not applied in most
In the SFL account the ideational strand of meaning in fact involves two components: that of experiential meaning in the clause (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004) and that of the logical meaning between clauses in clause complexes. Experiential meaning is expressed through the system of Transitivity or process type, with the choice of process implicating associated participant roles and configurations.
Blitar is a city in East Java, lies between Malang of which language is assumed to be direct and earnest and Tulungagung where people speak cautiously based on the degree of politenes. The language they use is in common with other Austronesian languages, and spoken differently depending to the social context.
Like other languages, the centre of Blitarese clausal system is the verbal group construing the process and interacts through a variety of participant roles.
PACKAGING EXPERIENCE
In Blitarese, process and participant can be presented as the following : a. Expressing what one knows about what does to whom under what circumstances : Participant Agus Kucinge Participant Kucinge Danang Participant Lik Pri Asune Participant Ibu Process ipant dolan . caring. Process ipant nggondhol nemu Process ipant tindak mlayu Process ipant tumbas Participant iwak duit Circumstance Participant nang Malang nang ratan Participant pisang Circumstance Participant nang pasar
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b. However, to draw someone’s attention, one may say the process before the participant. The word/phrase spoken before the last participant is the most important part of the clause : Process Participant ipant Dolan Caring Agus kucinge
Process ipant Tindak Mlayu
Circumstance nang Malang nang ratan
Participant Lik Pri asune
Process ipant Nggondhol Nemu Process ipant Tumbas
Participant iwak duit Participant pisang
Participant kucinge Danang Circumstance Participant nang pasar Participant Ibu
c. Finite is not applied in most
References: Eggins, Suzanne, 2004. An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics,Continuum International Publishing Group. London. Halliday, MAK & Mathiessen, MIM, 2004 An Introduction to Functional Grammar . Oxford University Press, New York. 6