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Unit II

Unit II. The experiential meta-function and the transitivity of the clause [Based on Gerot & Wignell, chapter 3, pp. 52-79; Bloor & Bloor, chapter 6, pp. 106-126; Martin, Matthiessen & Painter, chapter 4, pp. 100-164].

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Unit II

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  1. Unit II The experiential meta-function and the transitivity of the clause [Based on Gerot & Wignell, chapter 3, pp. 52-79; Bloor & Bloor, chapter 6, pp. 106-126; Martin, Matthiessen & Painter, chapter 4, pp. 100-164]

  2. Transitivity in traditional grammar – classes of verbs and structure of the clause

  3. Transitivity in traditional grammar – classes of verbs and structure of the clause

  4. Transitivity in traditional grammar – concern with form rather than meaning Traditional grammar is mainly concerned with form, with the number and type of complements associated with each type of verb and the clause structure resulting from the choice of one or the other verb. A functional approach to grammar is concerned with meaning, though in both approaches the verb has a key role in determining the structure of the clause, as we will see.

  5. Transitivity in Systemic Functional Grammar TRANSITIVITY is the system or resource for construing experiential meaning, i. e. meaning about the world outside and inside the speaker. It is the resource for construing (= interpreting and expressing) events, happenings, goings-on, mental states, sayings, behaviour and relations of different kinds.

  6. Transitivity in Functional Grammar: nuclear and peripheral transitivity • Nuclear transitivity: resources that are central to the representation of events, happenings, states, relations, more specifically: The Process The Participant(s) involved in the Process • Peripheral transitivity: resources that are not so central to the representation of events, happenings, states, more specifically Circumstances

  7. Transitivity in Functional Grammar: nuclear transitivity (Process and participants) Process: the resource for sorting out/ classifying/ categorizing our experience of events and goings-on in general into a small number of types. The process is realized by verbs (lexical verb). There are 6 to 7 process types that are generally recognized and these are:

  8. Nuclear transitivity (Basic process types: meaning and examples)

  9. Nuclear transitivity (Basic process types and associated participants)

  10. Nuclear transitivity (Basic process types and associated participants) Basic process types are distinguishable from each other in • Meaning • Number and kind of participants • Subtypes • Distinctive features and reactances

  11. Nuclear transitivity: different process types described and illustrated in more detail

  12. Material processes as “doing-words” Material processes: the only processes that can confidently be called “doing-words” (term used in traditional school-grammar to refer to verbs in general). This is seen in the fact that they are the only ones (except maybe for some behavioural ones) that can be substituted by “do”. One can say “What he did yesterday was go/run/walk to the park”; or “What he did to the poor man was kill him/kick him/punch him” or “What he did with the book was tear it into pieces”. But one cannot say “What he did was see a bird/ hear a strange sound” or “What he did was know the answer/understand the question” or “What he did was want a cake/fear the outcome”. These last sentences would appear illogical because the verbs in them do not express a “doing”, a material process.

  13. Material processes: distinguishing between Range and Goal

  14. Material processes: distinguishing between Range and Goal

  15. Material processes: distinguishing between Range and Goal

  16. Material processes: distinguishing between Range and Goal

  17. Nuclear transitivity: different process types described and illustrated in more detail

  18. Nuclear transitivity: different process types described and illustrated in more detail

  19. Nuclear transitivity: different process types described and illustrated in more detail

  20. Nuclear transitivity: different process types described and illustrated in more detail

  21. Nuclear transitivity: different process types described and illustrated in more detail

  22. Relational processes further described

  23. Relational processes further described

  24. Identifyingh “Token” and “Value”

  25. Transitivity in Functional Grammar – its relation to context and meaning

  26. Where is transitivity to be placed in the model of language? In which level or stratum?

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