Wednesday 28 September 2016

An Angle On Attribution


It
seems
senseless
to us
[[that this incident has led to a loss of life]]
Car-
Process: relational
Attribute
Angle: viewpoint
-rier

cf

It
strikes
us
as senseless
[[that this incident has led to a loss of life]]
Pheno-
Process: mental: cognitive
Senser
Rôle: guise
-menon


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 328):
Angle [viewpoint] is related … to the Senser of a ‘mental’ clause…

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 326):
the Rôle corresponds to the Attribute or Value of an ‘intensive relational’ clause.

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