Slide 31: Verbal Potential: Saying

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

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

This construes verbal socio-semiotic potential, least delicately, as either activity or semiosis (which includes the potential to project) and involving either reception or non-reception.  That is, verbal socio-semiotic potential can be classified by these general categorial combinations.