Thursday 11 February 2016

Misconstruing Enhancement As Elaboration And Misidentifying Metaphor

Martin (1992: 425, 427):
Notes on analysis:
(i) home and work are taken as places in this analysis to show their relationship to the domicile string; they could just as well have been treated as elaborations of the Process coming (home is so treated in the action strings below). …
Notes on the analysis:
(i) dead is taken as a metaphorical realisation of the action "die", and so worked into the "living" string here.
(ii) home is treated as a locative elaboration of the Process coming (cf. its treatment as a place in the place string above).
(iii) name is taken as a metaphorical realisation of the action "name", and so taken [as] a repetition of named in [6:33:a].


Blogger Comment:

[1] In SFL theory, Location circumstances are related to the nucleus (Process/Medium) by enhancement, not elaboration.  These are the clauses involved:

The next morning
she
ran away
from home
Location: temporal: rest
Medium
Process
Location: spatial: motion: away from

Meanwhile
the seven dwarfs
were coming
home
from work

Medium
Process
Location: spatial: motion: towards
Location: spatial: motion: away from

[2] These are not instances of grammatical metaphor, but in any case, it isn't necessary to regard them as such for the purpose of analysing lexical cohesion — the lexical strings of Martin's discourse semantic ideation.

The clause featuring dead is an intensive attributive clause, congruently realising a figure of ascriptive being–&–having:

because
her parents
were
dead

Carrier
Process: intensive
Attribute

The clauses featuring name are intensive identifying clauses, congruently realising figures of identifying being–&–having:

what
is
your name
Token/Identified
Process: intensive
Value/Identifier


my name
is
Snow White
Value/Identified
Process: intensive
Token/Identifier