SFL theory categorises experience in terms of process types, which forms the primary basis of analysis, whereby "each process type provides its own model or schema for construing a particular domain of experience as a figure of a particular kind" (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004: 170).
According to Freyd, instruments which research sexual assault need to provide clear behavioural descriptions of what is being researched, as many respondents do not know exactly what constitutes sexual assault, and many individuals who have experienced sexual assault are reluctant to categorise their experience in that way, due to the stigma it carries.
It is a chance to observe your own death while still living and to understand that the word death is just your conscious mind trying to categorise an experience beyond what it is capable of experiencing".
They would then categorise the experience of migraine pain severity during their most recent attack as mild, moderate, and/or severe by labelling the dates and hours they had experienced their migraine using these categories.
Lev (2005) describes how the DSM does not allow for a healthy, functioning variant of transgenderism, and only categorises transgender experience in the context of dysfunction [ 21].
When it emerged that the dessert would be decorated with 23-carat edible gold flakes and a white chocolate ball sprayed with gold dust, anti-poverty activists were irate – especially as almost 50 million US citizens are presently categorised as experiencing "food insecurity".
Those who reported a lot of diarrhoea and/or constipation during the past 12 months were categorised as experiencing diarrhoea and/or constipation, respectively.
Those students who reported 4 or more instances of victimisation on any one of the nine questions were categorised as experiencing 'frequent' victimisation.
Based on responses to the questions, 'How much do you feel you can talk to your caregiver about your problems?' and 'How much do you feel for your caregiver?' participants were categorised as experiencing low and high family connectedness.
Confounding was explored for the categorical variables sex, years of experience (categorised as ≥median or
