Showing posts with label Hypotaxis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hypotaxis. Show all posts
Friday, 31 December 2021
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.
Labels:
Clause Complex,
Ellipsis,
Extension,
Grammatical Metaphor,
Hypotaxis,
Parataxis,
Projection,
Transitivity
Friday, 12 March 2021
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Academic Colleagues As Targets Of Both Deception And False Accusation
the plagiarist
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deceived
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his academic community
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by
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falsely
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accusing
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his colleagues
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of dishonesty
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α
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x β manner
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||||||
Sayer
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Process: verbal
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Target
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Manner
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Process: verbal
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Target
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Matter
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Labels:
Enhancement,
Hypotaxis,
Manner,
Matter,
Target,
Transitivity,
Verbal
Sunday, 9 December 2018
Emotion-Imbued Cognitive Projection
I am unable to look at my
customer in the dock
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without feeling
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there but for the Grace
of God goes Horace Rumpole
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α
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+ β
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1
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' 2
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I
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am unable to look
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at my customer in the
dock
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Behaver
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Process: behavioural
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Location: orientation
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without
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feeling
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Process: mental: cognition
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there
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but for the Grace of God
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goes
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Horace Rumpole
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Theme: marked
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Rheme
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Location
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Contingency: default
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Process: material
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Actor
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Attribute: circumstantial
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Process: relational
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Carrier
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Adjunct
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Adjunct
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Predicator
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Finite
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Subject
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Residue
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Mood
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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.
Labels:
Behavioural,
Contingency,
Extension,
Hypotaxis,
John Mortimer,
Location,
Material,
Mental,
Mood,
Parataxis,
Projection,
Theme,
Transitivity
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