Metafunction
The experiential metafunction: Clause as representation
Metafunctions:
Ideational (construes human experience) – Transitivity
Interpersonal (enacts human relationships) – Mood
Textual (creates discourse) – Theme/Rheme Logical (links between components rather than unit–whole)
Ideational function Experiential (modelling a domain of "knowledge" – construing organic ‘wholes’)
Processes, participants, circumstances |[pic] |BABY |
| |PRAM |
| |FATHER |
| |PUSH |
| |WALK |
| |HAIR |
| |AWAKE |
– setting up taxonomies of events, things and qualities |semantic (role) |process |participant(s) |circumstance |
|lexicogrammatical |verbal group |nominal group |adverbial group / prepositional phrase |
|(realization) | |substantival/adjectival | |
Processes
Michael looked at her for a moment. Then he began to laugh. 'I'm so sorry,' said Michael, 'but it did sound comic, the way you said it! Cheer up, there's no tragedy. I have to go to the village this evening, and I'll fetch your suitcase then. It'll be quite safe at the White Lion. Did you have any lunch by the way? We were wondering about you.
Thompson, p 79:
Three questions that can be asked about any process and the clause of which it forms a nucleus: 1. What kind of process
Metafunctions:
Ideational (construes human experience) – Transitivity
Interpersonal (enacts human relationships) – Mood
Textual (creates discourse) – Theme/Rheme Logical (links between components rather than unit–whole)
Ideational function Experiential (modelling a domain of "knowledge" – construing organic ‘wholes’)
Processes, participants, circumstances |[pic] |BABY |
| |PRAM |
| |FATHER |
| |PUSH |
| |WALK |
| |HAIR |
| |AWAKE |
– setting up taxonomies of events, things and qualities |semantic (role) |process |participant(s) |circumstance |
|lexicogrammatical |verbal group |nominal group |adverbial group / prepositional phrase |
|(realization) | |substantival/adjectival | |
Processes
Michael looked at her for a moment. Then he began to laugh. 'I'm so sorry,' said Michael, 'but it did sound comic, the way you said it! Cheer up, there's no tragedy. I have to go to the village this evening, and I'll fetch your suitcase then. It'll be quite safe at the White Lion. Did you have any lunch by the way? We were wondering about you.
Thompson, p 79:
Three questions that can be asked about any process and the clause of which it forms a nucleus: 1. What kind of process