Systemic Functional Linguistics

-Agustika Pratiwi-Badriyyah Jamil Tanjung-Dianaulika Sihombing-Masdiana-Rismayanti Marpaung-Yusnita

SFL

SFL : Starts at social context,

and looks at how language both

acts upon, and is constrained by

this social context

Processes

What kind of event is being

describe

Participants

The entities involved the

process

Circumstances

Specifying the when, where, why

and how the process

Material: doing

Verbal : Saying

Mental : Sensing

Relational : becoming

Types of Process

a. Material Process And Their Participants.

• Material Processes: physical actions in the real world.

• Participants:

- Actor: the one who does the action

- Goal: The one who is affected by the action

- Recipient: the one who receives something

- Beneficiary: the one for whom something is done.

Examples:

• She (actor) gave (process) me (recipient) a flower (goal)

• John (actor) built (process) Mary (beneficiary) a house (goal)

b. Mental Process and their participants:

Mental Processes: processes of perception, cognition, affection

Senser : the one who does the mental action

Phenomenon : The thing that is perceived, thought, appreciated

Perception :

Cognition:

Emotion :

Ray sees MarySenser process phenomenon

Mila taught that Mary was lateSenser process phenomenon

I hate what he hates Senser process phenomenon

c. Verbal Process and Their Participant

Verbal Processes: processes of communication:

- Sayer : the one who communicates

- Addressee : the one receiving the message

- Verbiage : What they sayJhon said that his friend is beautifulSayer process verbiage

She told me to leave her Sayer process Addressee Verbiage

d. Relational Processes and Their Participants

Relational Processes: expressing possession, equivalence, attributes...

- Carrier : An entity being described

- Attribute : The description of the entity

- Possessor: the one owning or containing something

- Possessed: the thing owned or contained.

• - Token: an entity being equated with another

• - Value: the other description.

Jhody is thincarrier process attribute

Jhody owns A laptop

possessor process possession

Rihana is A singerToken process value

CircumstancesType Subtype Probe Example

LocationSpatial Where In the corner

Temporal When Yesterday

ExtentSpatial How far 3 miles

Temporal How long Since 1983, for three weeks

Origin Where from From London

Destination Where to To Sydney

Manner How Quickly, smoothly, by car

Cause

Reason Why? Because she was tired

Purpose For what reason?

To open the lid

Behalf Who for? For your children

ContingencyCondition Under what

condition?(I will) if you let me

Concessions Despite what? (I wont) despite my handicap

Accompaniment With who/what? (He went) with me

Role What as? (He went) as a fish

Matter What about? (We talked) about love

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