An investigation into processes in English challenge quotes in light of functional grammar

Abstract

The aims of the research are to illustrate the dominant processes discovered in the English Challenge Quotes and identify the verbs as part of the Processes as well as describe the Participants and Circumstances involved in the Processes. The data were in the form of written clauses of English Challenge Quotes collected from the official website namely Brainyquote and the quotes' authors must be native English speakers coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. The research was conducted by following descriptive method and the qualitative method combined with quantitative information. The result of the study shows that there are six process types found in English Challenge Quotes namely Material, Relational, Mental, Behavioural, Verbal and Existential Processes. The dominant Process found is Material Process and its Participants named Actor, Goal, Recipient, Client, Scope, and Attribute. The representative Circumstance is Place-Location. It contributes more than a quarter of the total Circumstance. The verbs used in the dominant process (Material Process) are Transitive and Intransitive