Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), formulated most noticeably by M.A.K. Halliday (1976, Halliday and Matthiessen 2004/2008), views language as a system of choice of meaning, that means “[a] language is a resource for making meaning, and meaning resides in systemic patterns of choice” (Halliday and Matthiessen 2008:23). Three kinds of metafunctions, that is, meanings in three modes, are defined in SFL: ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The ideational metafunction construes human experie…