INTRODUCTION
To study of language, there are
many structures to make a good grammar. Grammar is a policy to produce a good
sentence. Before become a sentence, the word has a term obey the form. Such as,
phrase, clause and then sentence. In this occasion, clause has some function in
grammatical structure. There are clause as exchange, clause as message, clause
as Significance of clause as exchange It is about the relationship speakers
forge with listeners through the form of language. Interpersonal
In the act of speaking, the speaker adopts for himself a particular speech
role, and in so doing assigns to the listener a complementary role that he
wishes him to adopt in his turn. Language is interaction process between the
speaker and listener. Proposition and proposal question command demanding
Statement offer giving information goods & services.
In this paper, we
will discuss about clause as exchange (Proposal, proposition, and mood structure).
CONTENT
A. Clause
A clause is a group of words that contains a verb (and
usually other components too). A clause may form part of a sentence or it may
be a complete sentence in itself.[1]
Clause simultaneously encodes 3 (main) strands of Meaning: Experiential
(ideational), interpersonal, and textual.
One is what
Halliday calls ideational. This
involves looking for processes in a text - processes name events taking place
or relationships among things. Then you divide the text up into processes and
whatever ‘go with them’. Knowing what a verb is, you can think of looking for
processes as looking for verbs. You remember from traditional school grammar
the notion that verbs are ‘action’ words. This can be useful as long as you
keep in mind that lot of verbs
(e.g. be and have) refer to relationships, not actions.
Another way is what Halliday
calls interpersonal. This involves
treating a text as a dialogue. Basically, this means dividing the text into
things you can argue with.
The third way is
what Halliday calls textual. This
approach takes advantages of the fact that texts may tend to return to closely
related starting points at the beginning of successive clauses. [2]
Interpersonal meaning (clause as exchange) expresses
relations among participants in the situation and the speaker’s own intrusion.
(Halliday, 1978:46) The interpersonal function meaning is an interpretation of
language in its function as an exchange, which is a doing function of language.
It is concerned with language as action. The interpersonal of the clause is
that the exchanging roles in rhetorical interaction statements, questions,
offers, and commands, together with accompanying modalities.
For example:
Example
|
Mood |
The spy came in from the cold.
Did the spy come in from the
cold?
Who came in from the cold?
Where did the spy come from?
Come in from the cold!
|
declarative
interrogative: yes/ no
interrogative: wh-
imperative
|
B. Proposition and
proposal
Statements and questions involve exchanges of
information and they are called propositions
while offers and commands are exchanges of goods and services called proposals. Look at this Halliday’s
metaphor of symbolic exchange table[3]:
Role in exchange
|
Goods and services
|
Information
|
Giving
|
Offer
|
Statement
|
Seeking
|
Command
|
Question
|
proposal
|
proposition
|
C. Mood Structure
Mood is a system through which interpersonal
meanings are realized within the conversation. It consists of two parts: (1)
the subject, which is a nominal group, and (2) the finite operator, which is
part of a verbal group, and the remainder of those parts are called residue.[4]
Example:
They
|
are
|
discussing
|
about mathematic
|
Subject
|
finite
|
predicator
|
adjunct
|
Mood
|
residue
|
From the structure, we may find that a mood element
of an English clause typically consists of subject + finite. The Finite element
is one of the small numbers of verbal operators expressing tense, modality and
polarity. These are listed below:
Finite verbal operators, Temporal:
Past
|
Present
|
Future
|
Did, was
Had, used to
|
Does, is
Has
|
Will, shall
Would, should
|
Modal:
Low
|
Median
|
High
|
Can, may
Would, might (dare)
|
Will, would
Is to, was to
|
Must, ought to
Need, Has to, had to
|
(Halliday 1994: 76)
These verbal operators also have negative counterparts,
e.g. didn’t, won’t, can’t, wouldn’t, mustn’t.
The residue element it consists of predicator,
one or more complement(s), and any number of different types of adjuncts.
a. Predicator is the verb part of a clause, the bit which
tell what’s doing, happening or being. There are also non-finite (to+verb and
verb+ing) clauses containing a predicator but no finite element, for example:
So as to give Henry more room
To give
|
Henry
|
more room
|
Predicator
|
Complement
|
Complement
|
Halliday (1994: 79) claims that
there are two verbs in English which in simple past and simple present tense
appears as finite only, without being fused with a distinct element as
predicator. These are “be” and “have”
The car
|
had
|
four bicycles wheels
|
Subject
|
Finite
|
Complement
|
Mood
|
Residue
|
b. Complement answers the question “is/ had what”,
“to whom”, “did to what”. The complements have the potential to
be Subject.
Henry Ford built his first car in
his backyard.
His first car answers the
question: did to (built) what?
c. Adjunct
Circumstantial adjunct
answer the question “how”, “when”, “where”, “by whom”
Example: In the
symphony was played badly by an amateur orchestra during a concert Saturday
night at the Performing Art Centre.
“badly” is an adjunct, answering
the question how
“by an amateur orchestra” is an
adjunct, answering the question whom
“during a concert and Saturday
night” are adjuncts, answering the question when
“at the Performing Art Centre” is an adjunct,
answering the question where.
These are all circumstantial adjunct. There are
several other types of adjuncts. One of these is centrally relevant to analysis of MOOD. The two
which fall outside of mood structure are conjunctive adjunct and comment
adjunct. Conjunctive adjunct include item such as, for instance, anyway,
moreover, meanwhile, therefore, nevertheless. While comment adjunct express the
speakers’ comment on what he/she is saying, such as, frankly, apparently,
hopefully, etc.
Mood adjunct, on the other hand, both express
interpersonal meanings and do fall within mood structure, more particularly
within the mood element. Mood adjuncts relate specifically to the meaning of
the finite verbal operators, expressing probability, usuallity, obligation,
inclination or time.[5]
CONCLUSION
A clause is a group of words that contains a verb (and usually other
components too). Interpersonal meaning (clause as exchange) expresses relations among participants in
the situation and the speaker’s
own intrusion. (Halliday, 1978:46)
Statements and questions
involve exchanges of
information and they are called propositions
while offers and commands are exchanges of goods and services called proposals. Mood is a system through which
interpersonal meanings are realized within the conversation. From the structure,
we may find that a mood element of an English clause typically consists of subject + finite.
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Gerot , Linda and Peter Wignell. 1995. Making Sense of
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exchange. In M. Halliday & C. Matthiessen, An introduction to functional
grammar . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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