Showing posts with label Hypotaxis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hypotaxis. Show all posts

Monday, 17 May 2021

Uncovering Congruent Agency By Undoing Ellipsis And Unpacking Metaphor


A.

 (1) Reinstating the elided Agent:


(2) Unpacking the metaphorical Agent:


B.


Here, despite the fact that adults are killing children in a refugee camp, no agency whatsoever is construed.



Halliday (2003 [1993]: 215):
… it is precisely in the "reporting" of pronouncements and speeches on the one hand, and of massacres, terrorist acts and nuclear disasters on the other, that linguistic analysis most clearly reveals the opposing ideologies that are being promoted in different organs. Construing events as news is a highly political act.

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Academic Colleagues As Targets Of Both Deception And False Accusation

the plagiarist
deceived
his academic community
by
falsely
accusing
his colleagues
of dishonesty
α
x β manner
Sayer
Process: verbal
Target

Manner
Process: verbal
Target
Matter

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.