“Proses” dalam ayat wacana: representasi pengalaman dunia penutur

This article proposes a notion that people present their experience of the world through language manifested through a “process” element in clauses. As such, analyzing the process element in clauses is an important first step to analyse how people present their experience of the world through language. For that purpose, this paper identifies and describes the types of process in Malay sentences or clauses. Identification of the types of process is based on the functional grammar framework that recognizes language as a human communication system, and looks at data from narrative discourse. From the analysis, seven types of main processes in Malay were identified. There are seven ways of how Malay language speakers present their experience of the world, using certain processes in clauses and sentences. These are active, situational, mental, existential, relational, descriptive, and verbal processes. The nature of each type of process is described and examples of usage are provided.