The Ideational Function The ideational function is to convey new information to communicate a content that is unknown to the hearer.(胡壮麟,2002:699) It refers to the kind of language function, which expresses people's material and mental experiences in the world. A fundamental property of language is that it enables human beings to build a menta picture of reality, to make sense of their experience of what goes on around them and inside them. And this metafunction is what we call the ideational metafunction To be more specific, it is viewed as the representation of different D rocesses
The ideational function is to convey new information, to communicate a content that is unknown to the hearer. (胡壮麟, 2002: 699) It refers to the kind of language function, which expresses people’s material and mental experiences in the world. A fundamental property of language is that it enables human beings to build a mental picture of reality, to make sense of their experience of what goes on around them and inside them. And this metafunction is what we call the ideational metafunction. To be more specific, it is viewed as the representation of different processes
Experiential Function(经验功能) The experiential function refers to the expression of people's various experiences in real world (including inner world by means of language. In other words, language is used to reflect the things, related people and relevant circumstantial elements like time and place in objective world and subjective world When we look at how language works from this perspective, we are focusing primarily on the "content"of a message rather than the purpose for which the speaker has uttered it
The experiential function refers to the expression of people’s various experiences in real world (including inner world) by means of language. In other words, language is used to reflect the things, related people and relevant circumstantial elements like time and place in objective world and subjective world. When we look at how language works from this perspective, we are focusing primarily on the “content” of a message rather than the purpose for which the speaker has uttered it
From the experiential perspective, language comprises of a set of resources for referring to entities in the world and the ways in which these entities act on or relate to each other. At the simplest level, language reflects our view of the world as consisting of going-on"(verbs) involving things(nouns) which may have attributes (adjectives and which go on against background details of place, time, manner, etc (adverbials)(Thompson, 1996: 76)
From the experiential perspective, language comprises of a set of resources for referring to entities in the world and the ways in which these entities act on or relate to each other. At the simplest level, language reflects our view of the world as consisting of “going-on” (verbs) involving things (nouns) which may have attributes (adjectives) and which go on against background details of place, time, manner, etc. (adverbials) (Thompson, 1996:76)