SEMANTIC GROUP ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIORAL VERBS IN ENGLISH

Abstract

This article is mainly about the verbs, which reflect the behavior
and character in English and their lexical-semantic group analyses. Human beings
use a language involving physiological and psychological behavior. This
phenomenon can be analyzed in the systemic functional linguistic approach. This
will be a part of the processes called behavioral process. Halliday argues that
behavioral processes are processes of physiological and psychological behavior, like
“breathing”, “dreaming”, “snoring”, “smiling”, “hiccupping”, “looking”,
“watching”, “listening”, and “pondering”. Hence, there are some verbs in which
contain not only physiological function in human body, but also some expressions
which deal with psychological matters beneath the meaning of the verbs.
Additionally, there is one obligatory participant in this process, it is the behaver. The
behaver is a “conscious” being. However, the process is one of “doing”, not
“sensing”