EXPERIENTIAL METAFUNCTION

1. EXPERIENTIAL METAFUNCTION TRANSITIVIY CHOICES

2. Experiential metafunction offers us: • Resources to encode our experience of the world • To convey a picture of reality

3. The Clause: Gives information about: What is happening Who is taking part Surrounding circumstances (eg; where, when, how, etc. )

4. Building up a Clause Participant John and Gladys

5. Building up a Clause Participant + process John and Gladys are standing

6. Building up a Clause Participant + process + circumstance John and Gladys are standingunder the umbrella.

7. Functional constituents of the clause Realized by nominal groups • PARTICIPANTS • PROCESSES • CIRCUNSTANCES Realized by verbal groups Realized by adverbial group, prepositional phrase or nominal group

8. Processes

9. Different kind of process: • MATERIAL • MENTAL • VERBAL • BEHAVIOURAL • EXISTENTIAL • RELATIONAL

10. Processesconnect participants and their circumstances Mental Processes Alice feels proud. Material Processes Harry bowls. Verbal Processes Sisters chat. Relational Processes Paul has a big belly.

11. Material Processes indicate physical actions Children skip. Mike hitthe ball. The dog chasedthe cat under the fence.

12. Material verbs Go Cook Take Hit Play Run Climb Fight Walk Eat Carry Give buy Work

13. Participant’s roles in material process • Actor • Goal • Range • Beneficiary • Diana went to Geneva • She carried the bomb • They were playing tennis • They give mea car

14. Mental Processes express thoughts or feelings Mr Harris wondered if the fish would bite. The diver feltnervous. He believed that she was telling the truth.

15. Mental verbs Think Know Understand Love Hate Like Want Smell See hear Wonder Realize Appreciate feel Cognition Perception Affection

16. Participant’s roles mental processes • Senser • Phenomenon I saw Marisa this afternoon Peter doesn’t believe in God

17. Projecting • Mental processes ( except those of perception)allows projection : • Two ways of projecting: • By Quoting - I Thought “ I will go and give Blood” • By reporting - I Thought that I’d go and give the Blood • PROJECTED CLAUSES

18. Verbal Processes To talk about what was said “Gold ! Gold !” shoutedthe prospector. The girls chat on the way home. Randal screamed at the dog to be quiet.

19. Verbal verbs Ask Tell Say Chat Talk Speak Gossip Discuss Argue Quarrel

20. Participant’s roles in verbal processes • Sayer • Receiver • Verbiage I tell himthe truth I made you a question

21. Projecting • Verbal process allows projection: • By quoting ( Direct speech) • I said “ Can you avoid the scar tissue? “ • By reporting ( Indirect speech) • I asked them to avoid the scar tissue • PROJECTED CLAUSES

22. Behavioural Processes indicates psychological and physiological activity The baby cried for hours The woman was laughing loudly. . He smiled a broad smile

23. BEHAVIORUAL VERBS Cry Laugh Study Watch Listen Smile Sniff Look over stare Dream Taste Work out breathe Scowl

24. Participant’s roles in behavioural processes • Behavier • Behaviour • Most behavioural processes have only one participant ( behavier) • Behavoural processes often occur with circumstantial elements of manner and cause. The baby cried for hours He smiles a broad smile

25. Existential Processes indicates existence There are two children under the tree There is snow in the street

26. Existential verbs There is/ are There was/ were

27. Participant’s roles in Existential processes • EXISTENT • This participant follows the “ there is/ are” • There is snow in the street • Circumstances of location are common in existential processes.

28. Relational Processes indicates states of being or having It iswindy today. Mr Taylor has a broken leg. Those dogs have very sharp teeth !

29. Relational verbs Be Have Others replacing “be” or “have”

30. Participant’s roles Relational processes • FOR ATTRIBUTE PROCESSES • CARRIER – ATTRIBUTE • EX: You are very skinny • I am not weak • FOR IDENTIFYING PROCESSES • TOKEN – VALUE • Ex: You are the skinniest one here

31. Participants

32. Participants are the people, things, places or ideas participating in a process being spoken or written about banana Ned Kelly greed Sydney Opera House

33. Participants maybe categorised as Human Dad reads the paper. or Non Human My birthday cake is delicious.

34. Participants maybe categorised as concrete The jug was full. or abstract Happiness is precious.

35. Participants maybe categorised as specific those children are skipping. or Non specific sharks are dangerous..

36. Participants are represented by Noun Groups The five wonderful Yeppoon singers.

37. Noun Groups can contain the following elements Determiners the children her children those children Numeratives two children a couple of children some children Classifiers school children primary children Australian children Describers attractive children tall children naughty children

38. Building a Noun Group determiner numerative thing describer classifier

39. Building a Noun Group determiner numerative thing describer classifier

40. Building a Noun Group determiner numerative his kitten thing describer classifier

41. Building a Noun Group determiner numerative his three kittens his kitten thing describer classifier

42. Building a Noun Group determiner numerative his three kittens his kitten his three cute kittens thing describer classifier

43. Building a Noun Group determiner numerative his three kittens his kitten his three cute kittens his three cute Siamese kittens thing describer classifier

44. Circumstances

45. Circumstances refer to how, how far, how long, how often, when, where, with whom and as what in a clause.

47. Circumstances are realized through Prepositional Phrases Adverbial Groups Noun Groups

48. Circumstancesgive information about how, when, where or why a process takes place and can be reported by prepositional phrases

49. Prepositionsare parts of speech that indicate relationships between words. Usually this relationship is expressed in terms of time and space

50. Prepositionsof Place