Misconstruing Experiential Manifestations Of Expansion As Logical Metaphor

Martin (1992: 409):

When combined with experiential metaphors, incongruent conjunctive relations are realised across a variety of TRANSITIVITY structures.  Note the following variations on [6:23f]:

[6:23f]	material process
	The Second World War further encouraged the restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis.
[6:26]	circumstance of cause
	Because of the Second World War the Australian economy was restructured towards a manufacturing basis.
[6:27]	circumstantial attribute
	The restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis was due to the Second World War.
[6:28]	value
	The cause of the restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis was the Second World War.
[6:29]	circumstantial process
	The restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis resulted from the Second World War.

Blogger Comments:

[1] From the perspective of SFL theory, there are no conjunctive relations in any of these purported examples of logical metaphor.  Instead, these clause simplexes exemplify some of the experiential environments that 'construe expansion as a semantic system' (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 597).

[2] This is a circumstantial identifying relational Process of cause: reason, not a material Process. The identity decodes the Second World War by reference to the restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis.

The Second World War	further	encouraged	the restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis
Token/Identified	Manner: degree	Process: relational: circumstantial	Value/Identifier

[3] The grammatical environment of cause as ideational metaphor is group rank (Thing), not clause rank (Value).

the	cause	of the restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis
Deictic	Thing	Qualifier

The cause [of the restructuring of the Australian economy towards a manufacturing basis]	was	the Second World War
Value/Identified	Process: relational: intensive	Token/Identifier