According to me, it is extremely important to notice such a vast amount of verbal processes within this text because they signal an important point. The latter can be explained as the need by Dickens to make seem the story as active as possible. Thus, he utilized so many verbal processes because they suggest the idea of interaction between the characters and support the chain of events described along the text. What is more, thanks to the presence of this kind of process it is possible to hear real character’s voices. In this way the author served one of Great Expectation’s characteristic features, that is to say the variety of registers. Actually, if we consider only the passage I have analyzed, we can notice the presence of different styles related to different characters. The tone of the text varies from Orlick’s common speech, full of two-ways, passing through Estella’s elegant and polite way of
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Actually, the text I analysed swaps from periods where the dominant process is the material one to others in which verbal processes are the leading one. In my opinion, this organisation suggests that the author wanted to make the flow of the text as fluid as possible in order to keep the reader’s attention as high as possible.
Then, there is the interpersonal one, which mainly analyses the use of language in order to interact with other people. In Language, context, and text: aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective Halliday defines this metafunction as the one thanks to which a person
“[…] recognise the speech function, the type of offer, command, statement, or question, the attitudes and judgments embodied in it, and the rhetorical features that constitute it as a symbolic act […]”.
Finally, there is the textual metafunction which concerns the organization of a language in order to fit in its context. According to Matthiesen and
Actually, the text I analysed swaps from periods where the dominant process is the material one to others in which verbal processes are the leading one. In my opinion, this organisation suggests that the author wanted to make the flow of the text as fluid as possible in order to keep the reader’s attention as high as possible.
Then, there is the interpersonal one, which mainly analyses the use of language in order to interact with other people. In Language, context, and text: aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective Halliday defines this metafunction as the one thanks to which a person
“[…] recognise the speech function, the type of offer, command, statement, or question, the attitudes and judgments embodied in it, and the rhetorical features that constitute it as a symbolic act […]”.
Finally, there is the textual metafunction which concerns the organization of a language in order to fit in its context. According to Matthiesen and