Abstract (Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of Three Excerpts Selected from Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Focus on Experiential Meaning)
Drawing on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL),this study scrutinizes the grammar of experiential meaning, one of thethree metafunctions which contribute to the functions of the clause. Itaims at explaining how processes are used to make meaning in the novelunder investigation. Using sampling method, three extracts have beenselected from Toni Morrison’s …