The immigrant experience is construed generationally: The chasm between first and second generation experiences is vast, and not often fully discussed or understood.
Given the centrality of the construal of experience through language to Systemic Functional Linguistics, it is important to explore how other critical domains of human experience are construed in language, and more specifically in the lexicogrammar of particular languages.
Thus 'external' relations link segments of the experience being construed in the text to one another.
These are only a few examples of how death as a part of the human experience is construed through language.
My belief that I exist entails that I exist, that I have at least one belief, that someone has beliefs, that experience (broadly construed) exists, etc.
Experience is construed by different process types involving different participant roles in which both human and non-human participants serve according to the process types described above.
Semantically, experiential meaning and the assignment of processes offers a model of the speaker's experience and serves to represent this experience by construing "a quantum of change as a figure, or configuration of a process, participants involved in it and any attendant circumstances" (Halliday et al. 2014: 169).
We have been considering various understandings of the phenomenology of religious experience, where religious experience may be construed as an encounter with God as a particular entity, or as an encounter with some material context, given by our built or natural environment or some combination of these.
In any case, most authors who write about religious experience generally construe it as caused by something other than our ordinary faculties and their intersubjectively available objects, and thus do not think of it as one of the topics of natural theology (see Alston 1991).
Although proponents of all three approaches are attempting to make sense of our experience of temporally extended phenomena, there are divergences on the issue of how precisely this experience should be construed, and on several related matters.
