Saturday 20 June 2020

Fighting Racism With Nominal Groups

Classifier = racism
coloured
people
Classifier
Thing

Qualifier = anti-racism
people
of colour
Thing
Qualifier

But note that the anti-racist agnate presents colour as the unmarked focus of information. See Halliday (1985: 170).

Tuesday 16 June 2020

Organism Competition

all organisms
compete
for resources
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Cause: purpose

This behavioural clause ascribes consciousness to all types of organisms — including bacteria, amœbæ, plants and sponges — and construes all organisms as consciously competing with each other. Moreover, it construes the result of organism behaviour — access to resources — as the conscious purpose of the behaviour of all types of organisms, without knowledge of their conscious states.

Sunday 7 June 2020

Imperative Relational Clauses

Be
honest
Theme: unmarked
Rheme
Process: attributive
Attribute
Predicator
Complement
Residue

Be
the most honest
Theme: unmarked
Rheme
Process: identifying
Value
Predicator
Complement
Residue