METAFUNCTION
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
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METAFUNCTION
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VIVI ANGGRENI
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UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
MEDAN
2013
METAFUNCTION
Three meta-functions of language are identified by M. A. K. Halliday in Systemic Functional
Linguistics. There are the ideational function, the interpersonal function and the textual function. Each of the three metafunctions is about a different aspect of the world. The ideational metafunction is about the natural world in the broadest sense, including our own consciousness. The interpersonal metafunction is about the social world, especially the relationship between speaker and hearer. The textual metafunction is about the verbal world, especially the flow of information in a text.
Context of Situation rendered the ideas of metafunctions for Halliday. Halliday emphasizing on how the utterances and texts specify all the meaning potentials, studies the functional and situational organization of language in the social context. It is concerned with how the speakers generate utterances and texts to convey their intended meanings through the generalized metafunctions that relate language to the outside world where interactants and their social roles matter.
Ideational Metafunction:
The ideational metafunction is the function for construing human experience. It is the means by which we make sense of reality. The ideational metafunction reflects the contextual value of "field", that is, the nature of the social process in which the language is implicated. In the ideational metafunction, a clause is analysed into Process, Participants and Circumstances, with different participant types for different process types (as in Case Grammar). Process refers to a semantic verb (doing, happening, feeling, sensing, saying, behaving, and existing) and anything that it expresses like event, relation, physical, mental or emotional state when sorted in the semantic system of the clause is classified into material,
OF
METAFUNCTION
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P
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D BY:
VIVI ANGGRENI
110705080
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
MEDAN
2013
METAFUNCTION
Three meta-functions of language are identified by M. A. K. Halliday in Systemic Functional
Linguistics. There are the ideational function, the interpersonal function and the textual function. Each of the three metafunctions is about a different aspect of the world. The ideational metafunction is about the natural world in the broadest sense, including our own consciousness. The interpersonal metafunction is about the social world, especially the relationship between speaker and hearer. The textual metafunction is about the verbal world, especially the flow of information in a text.
Context of Situation rendered the ideas of metafunctions for Halliday. Halliday emphasizing on how the utterances and texts specify all the meaning potentials, studies the functional and situational organization of language in the social context. It is concerned with how the speakers generate utterances and texts to convey their intended meanings through the generalized metafunctions that relate language to the outside world where interactants and their social roles matter.
Ideational Metafunction:
The ideational metafunction is the function for construing human experience. It is the means by which we make sense of reality. The ideational metafunction reflects the contextual value of "field", that is, the nature of the social process in which the language is implicated. In the ideational metafunction, a clause is analysed into Process, Participants and Circumstances, with different participant types for different process types (as in Case Grammar). Process refers to a semantic verb (doing, happening, feeling, sensing, saying, behaving, and existing) and anything that it expresses like event, relation, physical, mental or emotional state when sorted in the semantic system of the clause is classified into material,