One of the three parameters of focal adjustment.

Relates to the way in which a scene is viewed, including the relative prominence of its participants.

The case of an active and passive pair of sentences illustrates this point:

1. Max ate all the tomato soup (active)
2. All the tomato soup was eaten by Max (passive) In example (1) the focal participant, the trajector, is Max who is the agent of the action, and the secondary participant, the landmark, is the soup which is the patient. In (2) the situation is reversed, and the patient is now the focal participant, the trajector. In a passive sentence, the agent is the secondary participant, the landmark. The distinction between these two sentences relates to a shift in perspective which is effected by changing the relative prominence attached to the participants in the profiled relationship.