Abstract
This paper will present the results of the study of circumstantial relational process clauses in scientific texts, especially in mechanical engineering ones. This study is aimed to identify the relational process occurring in Circumstantial relational process clauses and analyze the lexical verbs realizing the relational processes. To conduct the study, three mechanical engineering textbooks used as references by Mechanical Engineering Students of Politeknik Negeri Bandung (Polban) were used as the source for collecting the data. The method used in this study was qualitative one and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework was applied to analyze the data. The results showed attributive relational process occur more frequently than identifying one. The attributive relational process was realized by various lexical verbs. The account of this will be presented in the rest of the his paper. Key words: Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), circumstantial clauses, function, structure, identifying process, attributive process
Highlights
Relational process is one of the primary processes in Transitivity system
A total of 45 circumstantial relational process clauses were found. 44 clauses operate on attributive relational process and only one clause which operates on identifying mode
The attributive relational process is realized by seven lexical verbs while identifying one is realized only by single lexical verb (Figure 3.)
Summary
Relational process is one of the primary processes in Transitivity system It is dominantly found in scientific texts (Martin, 1992) and it serves to characterize and to identify as stated by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004; 2014). This suggests that there are two types of relational process: attributive and identifying ones. 2) Mary is the leader of the class Both of the relational processes in the clauses above are realized by lexical verb be. Whereas in clause 2), one participant (the leader of the class) serves to identify
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