Editing Systemic functional grammar (section)

===Ideational metafunction===
The ideational metafunction is the function for construing human experience. It is the means by which we make sense of "reality".<ref>Halliday, M.A.K. The Essential Halliday. London and New York: Continuum. Chapter 12: Metafunctions.</ref> Halliday divides the ideational into the logical and the experiential metafunctions. The logical metafunction refers to the grammatical resources for building up grammatical units into complexes, for instance, for combining two or more clauses into a clause complex. The experiential function refers to the grammatical resources involved in construing the flux of experience through the unit of the clause.

The ideational metafunction reflects the contextual value of ''field'', that is, the nature of the social process in which the language is implicated.<ref name="Halliday, M.A.K 1985"/> An analysis of a text from the perspective of the ideational function involves inquiring into the choices in the grammatical system of "transitivity": that is, process types, participant types, circumstance types, combined with an analysis of the resources through which clauses are combined. Halliday's ''An Introduction to Functional Grammar'' (in the third edition, with revisions by [[Christian Matthiessen]])<ref>Halliday, M.A.K. and Matthiessen, C.M.I.M. 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JM3KAgAAQBAJ An Introduction to Functional Grammar]. Arnold.</ref> sets out the description of these grammatical systems.