Decoding People And Books By Reference To Consciousness

people	are	individuations of collective consciousness
Identified Token	Process: relational	Identifier Value

books	are	instances of individuations of collective consciousness
Identified Token	Process: relational	Identifier Value

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).

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.

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

Operative Material Clause With No Medium

the cancer patients	were smoking	outside the emergency room
Agent Actor	Process: material	Location

i.e. 'smoking cigarettes' (causing cigarettes to emit smoke)

cf

the cancer patients	were smoking	outside the emergency room
Medium Actor	Process: material	Location

i.e. 'on fire and emitting smoke'

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.

Decoding Chemical Reactants By Reference To Their Chemical Product

2 HCl + 2 Na	→		2 NaCl + H2
two HCl plus two Na	yields		two NaCl and H two
hydrochloric acid plus sodium	yields		sodium chloride and hydrogen gas
Theme	Rheme
Identified Token	Process: relational: cause		Identifier Value
Subject	Finite	Predicator	Complement
Mood		Residue

Decoding 'Dmytro Poremskyi' As Robin Fawcett

Decoding 'Dmytro Poremskyi' by reference to Robin Fawcett:

Encoding Robin Fawcett By Reference To Dmytro Poremskyi

Robin Fawcett	has been pretending to be	Dmytro Poremskyi	on the NASFLA Facebook site	for purposes of deception
Value	Process: identifying	Token	Location	Cause: purpose

has been pretending	to be
ɑ	' β

Using the pseudonym 'Dmytro Poremskyi', Robin Fawcett wrote:

I respect Robin Fawcett's thought and his style of coherently arguing his point.