Tuesday 28 October 2014

Attribution, Identification & Logical Validity


[[ Dishonest people
are
neat ]]
does not mean
[[ neat people
are
dishonest ]]
Token
Process
Value
Carrier
Process
Attribute

Carrier
Process
Attribute

Tuesday 21 October 2014

Transubstantiation: Symbolic, Not Material


the wine
turned into
their god’s blood
Token
Process
Value

Friday 17 October 2014

Doing/Being Complementarity

(a) ‘Doing’ Perspective:

They
cleaned
the shower
Actor
Process
Goal


(b) ‘Being’ Perspective:

They
cleaned (made clean)
the shower
Attributor
Process/Attribute
Carrier

See Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 132-3).

Thursday 16 October 2014

Having Ideas: Attributive Or Mental?


1.

(a) Attributive:

They
had
no idea
Carrier: possessor
Process: relational
Attribute: possessed


Cf

They
lacked
ideas
Carrier: possessor
Process: relational
Attribute: possessed


(b) Mental:

They
had
no idea
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

Cf

They
didn’t know
Senser
Process: mental

2.

(a) Attributive:

They
had
no idea [[that they would be sailing with pirates]]
Carrier: possessor
Process: relational
Attribute: possessed


(b) Mental:
They
had
no idea

that
they
would be sailing
with pirates
a

‘b
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon


Actor
Process: material
Accompaniment

Cf

They
didn’t know

that
they
would be sailing
with pirates
a

‘b
Senser
Process: mental


Actor
Process: material
Accompaniment