Sys-Func
A Masterclass In Systemic Functional Grammatics
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Saturday 3 February 2024
Theme Will Tear Us Apart Again
But in Halliday ± Matthiessen (1985, 1994, 2004, 2014), in cases of predicated Theme, the embedded clause is also analysed for Theme:
Labels:
Identifying,
Joy Division,
Mood,
Predicated Theme,
Theme,
Transitivity
Monday 1 January 2024
Decoding And Encoding The Self
Tuesday 21 November 2023
Targeting Authority On One's Own Behalf
Labels:
Behalf,
Behavioural,
Clause Complex,
Mood,
Target,
Theme,
Timothy Leary,
Transitivity,
Verbal
Sunday 29 October 2023
Non-Behavioural Laughing
Friday 12 May 2023
Direction Of Coding And Agency
A decoding identifying clause can be middle or effective:
but an encoding identifying clause is always effective:
Labels:
Agency,
Assignment,
Identifying,
Transitivity
Sunday 16 April 2023
Decoding vs Encoding Interrogatives
Sunday 5 March 2023
'Show' As Material Process Embedded In Encoding Relational Clause
The verb show also serves as a relational or verbal Process.
Labels:
Identifying,
Material,
Mervyn Peake,
Transitivity
Tuesday 21 February 2023
Blowin' In The Wind
Labels:
Bob Dylan,
Identifying,
Material,
Transitivity
Monday 13 February 2023
Role As Identifier Value
Labels:
Identifying,
Mervyn Peake,
Mood,
Postposed Subject,
Theme,
Transitivity
Monday 6 February 2023
Clause-Final Subject
Labels:
Attributive,
Information,
Mervyn Peake,
Mood,
Theme,
Transitivity
Saturday 4 February 2023
Wednesday 25 January 2023
The "Agency" Of Genes
Labels:
Attributive,
Identifying,
Material,
Transitivity
Thursday 29 December 2022
Saturday 17 December 2022
'As Usual' vs 'Usually'
as usual serves as a comment Adjunct of the type 'predictable'.
See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 191).
Tuesday 13 December 2022
The Existence Of Words
Wednesday 30 November 2022
'Be' As Material Process
Monday 28 November 2022
Thursday 24 November 2022
Attribute As Unmarked Theme
Saturday 19 November 2022
Sunday 13 November 2022
Descartes' Reification Of Sensing
Labels:
Mental,
Nominal Group,
René Descartes,
Transitivity
Monday 7 November 2022
An Enclosed Structurally Unrelated Clause
Mr Minter, 'Call me Ted', was a large, untidy, perpetually smiling man with the look of an astute rabbit.
— John Mortimer Rumpole And The Asylum Seekers
One way to analyse the enclosed clause as structurally related is to take the view from below. Because it is realised as its own tone group (TONALITY) and realised by tone concord with what precedes (TONE), the enclosed clause is realised as if it were in non-defining elaborating relationship with the surrounding clause. Such an interpretation, though, requires treating the clause that projected it as ellipsed.
Labels:
Assignment,
Attributive,
Identifying,
John Mortimer,
Nominal Group,
Prepositional Phrase,
Projection,
Transitivity
Monday 31 October 2022
Intense Emotion Without Graduated Affect
This is an experiential construal of intense emotion but not an interpersonal enactment of graduated affect. This is because AFFECT is the system of enacting a positive or negative appraisal by reference to emotion, and no such appraisal is enacted here. (Any enactment of a judgement by the author of the clause is a separate matter.)
Sunday 30 October 2022
Material Clause Without Medium
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Nominal Group As Qualifier
Saturday 8 October 2022
Embedded Nominal Group As Deictic vs Qualifier
Monday 26 September 2022
Subject As Marked Theme Of Imperative Clause
Labels:
Imperative,
Material,
Mood,
Scope,
Theme,
Transitivity
Sunday 11 September 2022
Finite/Predicator As Theme Of Declarative Clause
For Finite/Predicator as Theme, see Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 98n-9n).
Labels:
Attributive,
Clause Complex,
Mood,
Parataxis,
Projection,
Theme,
Transitivity,
Verbal
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Chemical Symbolism As Metaphorical
It is the grammatical metaphor afforded by chemical symbolism that enables the systematic expansion of the semantics of the field of chemistry, most explicitly in terms of quantified composition. Cf. Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 288-9):
It is the fact that metaphor multiplies meanings within the semantic system that opens up the possibility of metaphorical chains, with one congruent starting-point and another highly metaphorical end-point (A"' stands for A" stands for A' stands for A; e.g. 'engine failure* stands for 'the failing of an engine' stands for 'an engine failed'). The semantic system is being expanded along the dimension of the metaphorical token-value relation; but the expansion is still within the semantic system itself.
NaCl stands for sodium chloride stands for salt. (Thing+Thing stands for Classifier^Thing stands for Thing.)
Sunday 31 July 2022
Thursday 28 July 2022
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Decoding H₂O
Labels:
Identifying,
Nominal Group Complex,
Transitivity
Sunday 22 May 2022
The Logical Structure Of The Verbal Group
Wednesday 4 May 2022
'For' As Minor Process Of Accompaniment
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 324):
Accompaniment is a form of joint participation in the process and represents the meanings ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’ as circumstantials;
Sunday 1 May 2022
Cognitive Mental Process With Macrophenomenon
cf Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 256);
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.
Wednesday 16 March 2022
Targeting Performativity
Sunday 27 February 2022
Polarity In Mood vs Residue
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 175):
Finally, we should note that the negative word not occurs in two functions: either it is simply a formal or written variant of the Finite negative element n’t, in which case it is part of the Finite; or it is a distinct modal Adjunct in Mood or Residue. In the latter case it is phonologically salient and may also be tonic…
Monday 21 February 2022
Stylistic Metaphor
Labels:
Attributive,
Grammatical Metaphor,
John Mortimer,
Location,
Material
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