Saturday 1 July 2017

Qualitative Verbal Process In Stylistic Interpersonal Projection

'Trust in the computer, Mr Rumpole, and you'd have so much more time, leisure-wise. That's the …'
'Name of the game?' I hazarded.
That
's
the






name of the game
I
hazarded
Token
Process: relational
Value
Sayer
Process: verbal
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Experientially, a Quality (meaning) is realised in this instance as a verbal Process (wording). The Quality is a Quality of projection (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 210-1), since it construes probability — this being agnate with a cognitive sensing. Thus the author stylistically imbues a verbal Process with both the manner of the Process, and a suggestion of cognition.

Interpersonally, this is also stylistically suggestive of interpersonal projection (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 698-700), with the projecting verbal clause realising modality — a low value of modalisation: probability.

That
's
the






name of the game
possibly
Subject
Finite
Complement
Mood Adjunct

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