Thursday 15 August 2013

Slide 17: Material Potential: Social Doing-&-Happening


One way to model doing–&–happening potential, in the most general terms, is to use Halliday & Matthiessen’s system network of material clauses.

[Extract from Figure 5-44 in Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 302): system network of transitivity (agency and process type)

This construes material social potential, least delicately, as either transformative or creative and either non-impacting (‘happening’) or impacting (‘doing’).

That is, material social potential can be classified by these general categorial combinations.

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