Saturday 25 November 2017

Medium As Indirect Participant


she
was overheard
by the thought police
Range
Process
Medium


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 312):
We can make a contrast, then, between direct and indirect participants, using ‘indirect participant’ to refer to the status of a nominal group that is inside a prepositional phrase … the participant rôles of (1) Client, Recipient and Receiver [i.e. Beneficiary] and (2) Scope, Behaviour and Verbiage [i.e. Range] are sometimes expressed ‘indirectly’ in this sense …

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