Showing posts with label Behavioural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Behavioural. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

'Enjoy Oneself' As Behavioural Process

First Analysis:

This is not a mental process, because

(i) himself is not the Phenomenon that he is enjoying;

(ii) the unmarked present tense is 'present in present', like behavioural and material clauses.

The clause is agnate with he is enjoying [[what he is doing]],

so himself serves the same function as the Behaviour what he is doing.

Here 'enjoy' adds an emotional feature to a behavioural Process.


Final Analysis:

In  the case of this reflexive verb, the Range of the Process is better analysed as included in the Process itself (like behaving himself):


Of the two-participant process types, behavioural is the only that excludes the possibility of a reflexive pronoun, since the second participant is limited to a behaviour. For example,
  • material: he cut himself
  • mental: he saw himself
  • verbal: he flattered himself 
  • relational: he wasn't himself 

So wordings like 'enjoy oneself' and 'behave oneself' must function as a behavioural Process.

Wednesday, 13 April 2022

'Portray' As Relational Process


In Deploying Functional Grammar (Martin, Matthiessen & Painter 2010: 124), portray is interpreted as a behavioural process, despite it occurring in effective clauses, and despite its Range not being a behaviour.

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Friday, 11 December 2020

Tagged Imperative Or Metaphorical Interrogative?


The first analysis treats this instance as a tagged imperative clause, whereas the second treats it as an interpersonal metaphor of mood: a command realised as polar interrogative clause. Cf


This raises the question as to whether the tagging of the imperative facilitated the genesis of the metaphorical variant.

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.

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Gene Competition

genes
compete
for selection
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Cause: purpose

Such a construal ascribes both consciousness (Behaver) and intention (Purpose) to functional segments of DNA molecules.

Thursday, 25 July 2019

Depictive Attribute vs Process Of Elaborating Clause


he
went
home
happy
Actor
Process: material
Location
depictive Attribute


he
went
home
smiling
Actor
Process: material
Location
depictive Attribute

he
went
home
smiling
all the way
α
= β
Actor
Process: material
Location
Process: behavioural
Extent

Sunday, 9 December 2018

Emotion-Imbued Cognitive Projection


I am unable to look at my customer in the dock
without feeling
there but for the Grace of God goes Horace Rumpole
α
+ β
1
' 2


I
am unable to look
at my customer in the dock
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Location: orientation

without
feeling

Process: mental: cognition

there
but for the Grace of God
goes
Horace Rumpole
Theme: marked
Rheme
Location
Contingency: default
Process: material
Actor
Attribute: circumstantial
Process: relational
Carrier
Adjunct
Adjunct
Predicator
Finite
Subject
Residue
Mood


The above analysis assumes the Mood Tag would be doesn't he (rather than doesn't there).
This analysis is supported by the phonological salience of there.