Wednesday 27 November 2013

Mental Clause With Metaphor Unpacked


you
'll get
a bird's-eye view [of this majestic city]
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

cf

you
'll see
 this majestic city
from a bird's-eye view
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon
Angle: viewpoint


Angle: viewpoint is agnate with the Senser of a mental clause (Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 276):

you
'll see
 this majestic city
as
a  bird
sees
it
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon



a
bird’s eye
view
of this majestic city

Deictic
Classifier
Thing
Qualifier
metaphorical
Senser
Process
Phenomenon
congruent


Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 294):
[In the like [‘emanating’] type of mental process] the Phenomenon bears no kind of resemblance to a Goal.  But it does show certain affinities with the Scope.  It figures as Subject, in the ‘receptive’, under similarly restricted conditions; and it appears in expressions, such as enjoy the pleasure, saw the sight, have an understanding of, which are analogous to material Scope expressions of the ‘process’ type, such as play a game, have a game.  So we can interpret the rôle of the Phenomenon in the like type of mental process as a counterpart of that of Scope in the material; it is the element which delimits the boundaries of the sensing.

Friday 15 November 2013

Nominal Group With Modified Post-Deictic


one
of
the
most
famous
fortified
buildings
in the world
Deictic
post-Deictic
Classifier
Thing
Qualifier


For post-Deictic, see Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 316-7).