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SEMANTICS

Explore the role of clauses as representations of reflective, experiential meaning through transitivity structures, process components, participants, and circumstances in language. Understand different types of processes and how they are expressed in English.

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SEMANTICS

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  1. SEMANTICS MEETING5 prof. francien herlen tomasowa, ph.d.

  2. REFLECTIVE, EXPERIENTIALMEANING CLAUSE AS REPRESENTATION

  3. CLAUSE AS REPRESENTATION Simultaneously with its organization as a representation: the clause is also expressing the reflective, experiential aspect of meaning through the system of TRANSITIVITY Transitivity specifies the different types of process that are recognized in a language, and the structures by which they are expressed.

  4. The basic semantic framework for the representation of processes is very simple. A PROCESS COMPONENT 1: THE PROCESS ITSELF COMPONENT 3:CIRCUMSTANCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROCESS COMPONENT 2: PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROCESS

  5. TYPICAL FUNCTIONS TYPE OF ELEMENT REALIZED BY VERBAL GROUP NOMINAL GROUP ADVERBIAL GROUP PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE PROCESS PARTICIPANT CIRCUMSTANCE

  6. CLAUSE AS PROCESS, PARTICIPANTS & CIRCUMSTANCES the lion chased the tourist lazily through the bush nominal group nominal groupprepositional phrase verbal groupadverbial group PROCESS CIRCUMSTANCE PARTICIPANT CIRCUMSTANCE

  7. TYPES OF PROCESSES IN ENGLISH MATERIAL PROCESSES PROCESSES OF DOING MENTAL PROCESSES PROCESSES OF SENSING RELATIONAL PROCESSES PROCESSES OF BEING BEHAVIORAL PROCESSES PROCESSES OF PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR VERBAL PROCESSES PROCESSES OF SAYING EXISTENTIALPROCESSES PROCESSES OF EXISTENCE

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