METAFUNCTIONS

METAFUNCTIONS

1. IDEATIONAL FUNCTION

The ideational metafunction divides into:

1. Experiential function: is used to describe experience. Three elements representing experience in CLAUSE:

1)      Process divides into: material, mental, relational, behavioural, verbal, and existential.

2)      Participant

Labels of Participants

Process	Participant I	Participant II
1. Mental	Actor	Goal
2. Mental	Senser	Phenomenon
3. Relational     a. Identification     b. Attribution     c. Possession	Token Carrier Possessor	Value Attribute Possessed
4. Behavioural	Behaver	-
5. Verbal	Sayer	Verbiage
6. Existential	-	Existent

3). Circumstances divide into: extent, location, manner, cause, contingency, role, matter, accompaniment, and angle.

2. Logical Function: is used to relate experience. Logic: relation between two variables, relation of clause in CC related words: relate,relative, relativity, relation, and ratio. Logical function divides into: equal and unequal.

1). equal: parataxis, paratactic relation based on order.

2). Unequal: hypotaxis, hypotactic (independent and dependent)

2. INTERPERSONAL FUNCTION

The interpersonal function divides into:

1. Mood and Residue

- Subject               MOOD

- Finite                

- Predicator

- Complement                  RESIDUE

- Adjunct

2. Finite and Predicator

- Finite is defined as verbal operator that is an aspect of verbal phrase which, together with subject, makes something arguable.

- Predicator is the verb phrase minus finite.

3. TEXTUAL FUNCTION

Textual function: organize message, relevance to context (linguistic and social).

A clause as a unit of message is constituted by Theme and Rheme.

a. Theme is the starting point or the point of departure of the message.

    Types of Theme:

1). unmarked: In situation where a theme simultaneously functions as the subject the theme.

2)   Marked: when the theme is not conflated with or mapped out the subject the theme.

3).  Simple theme: one element of the clause functions as the theme.

4).  multiple theme: more than one element.

      Simple theme and Multiple theme.

a.       Textual theme: - conjunctions: and, because, so, …

          - relatives: who, which, whose,…

          - conjunctives: in addition, besides, …

                                                                      - continuatives: well, yes, ah, ya,…

                                       b.      Interpersonal theme: - Finite: do, did, does, is, …

                                                                                  - A Wh-element: what, who, where,..

                                                                                  - Vocative: John, son, my darling,..

                                                                                  - Mood adjunct: really, actually,…

c.       Topical theme: as stated, is coded by the first element of the transitivity system.

b.   Rheme is the rest of the message of the clause after the theme.