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This assignment is designed to assess all learning outcomes associated with this unit.

Complete the grammatical analysis of the extract from Great Expectations (the same extract as in Assignment 2), adding the interpersonal and textual analysis. Steps for this assignment are:

1. Using tables provided, analyse the constituents of the clauses from the perspective of the interpersonal grammar, indicating which elements are: Subject, Finite, Predicator, Complement and Adjuncts
2. Using tables provided, analyse the constituents of the clause from the perspective of the textual function, identifying Theme, and Theme types, and Rheme
3. Fill out the 'summary table 2: interpersonal analysis' indicating the mood and speech function for major clauses, and inserting the relevant information for remaining columns in the table (summary table 1 has been done for you)
4. Fill out 'summary table 3: theme analysis'
5. Write a summary and interpretation of the patterns of the experiential, interpersonal and textual grammar in this extract, and relate these patterns to the type of text chosen for this assignment (max 1000 words).

As does every instance of language, the provided extract from Charles Dickens Great Expectation encodes multiple meanings: those grouped together by M.A.K. Halliday into three metafunctions: the Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual.  While these necessarily unfold simultaneously, the above transitivity, mood, and thematic analyses allow us to disentangle them and describe them as follows.

The extract comes from almost the beginning of the novel. Pip, the novel’s main character and narrator, has just introduced himself and has explained that his parents died when he was a baby and he was brought up by his sister and her husband (the Gargerys). In the extract, while still a young boy, he goes to visit his parents’ grave for the first time and encounters someone who we later discover is an escaped convict.

In the text's majority places throughout the clauses (was,were) are used predominantly emphasizing the past tense. Most verbs that is encountered are in past except of four instances. The use of past tense and concept of time (at such a time) drags to the past and takes to the memory lane of the character. The characters many are from the past and a single person is from the present. 

 ” . . . a man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.” It is rich with detail, creating a crisp vision of the man, and it is overloaded with detail, making the reader wonder if Dickens will ever stop. Yet there is no question he has a gift for bringing the reader right into the place, in this case ” . . . a bleak place overgrown with nettles . . . dark flat wilderness . . . intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it.”

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