Wednesday 14 August 2013

Slide 18: Relational Potential: Social Being-&-Having


And similarly, one way to model being-&-having potential, in the most general terms, is to use Halliday & Matthiessen’s system network of relational clauses.

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

This construes relational social potential, least delicately, as either intensive (elaborating) or possessive (extending) or circumstantial (enhancing) and either attributive (class membership) or identifying (identity).

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

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