Transitivity Analysis

The present document will offer an analysis of the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture delivered by the former Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, from the fundaments of the transitivity system provided by the Systemic Functional Grammar theory. To attain this goal, a quantitative and qualitative research method approach was applied. Findings indicated that among the six transitivity process types, the material processes (54% - 205 realizations) dominate the speech whereas the verbal, existential, and behavioral processes are relatively low all together representing an overall occurrence of 10% (41 realizations). This reveals that the speaker’s main goal is to emphasize the actions that led to consolidating the Colombian peace process, placing him as the core actor of this achievement. Furthermore, by employing a narrative thread that connects the past, the present, and the future time, he can demonstrate to the world his capability as a governor who deserves to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Language plays a vital role in political speech as it comes in a form of argument shaping and speech presenting which often contain a set of beliefs called ideology. It gets even more crucial when the speech is delivered as a presidential victory speech from developed countries such as the USA. Hence, investigation regarding presidential victory speech should be conducted. Regarding this, the present study aims to investigate the presence of political ideology in the USA 2020 vice president-elect Kamala Harris' victory speech concerning her plans to build back the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is due to the fact that not only she is the first female vice-president elect but she is also representing the people of colour. This study employs Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) as the research method with Halliday's transitivity system as the framework to analyse the data. The result shows that Kamala Harris implicitly demonstrates her liberalism ideology by inviting all the American people to not only focus on their own liberty but also others as well through the utilisation of Material (60%), Relational (19%), Mental (11%) and Behavioural (3%) processes in her speech. Thus, in other words, Kamala Harris plans to build back the USA by starting to enforce people's liberty.

Theocratic  communities  often  provide  an  atmosphere  for  injustice  against  individuals, especially  women.  This dissertation examines  the  relationship  between  dogmatic  theocracies, and  oppressed  women  in  two  distinct  theocratic  settings;  17 and  19 th th century  Puritan  New  England, century  Afghan  Taliban.  For  this  purpose,  the  selected  case  stud protagonists,  Hester  and  Mariam,  of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne’s ies  are  the  female The  Scarlet  Letter ,  and  Khaled Hosseini’s A  Thousand  Splendid Suns respectively. Case  studies  were  studied  according  to  a set  of  agency  and  passivity  devices  based  on  textual  evid ence.  In  particular,  feminist  stylistics was  the  key  theory  in  such  study  that  utilized  both  quantitative  and  qualitative  data  analyses. A nalyses  obtained  from  the  inspection  of  authors’  syntactic  choices  have  shown  that  female protagonists  were  primarily silenced  and  deprived  from  their  power  by  passivity  devices, albeit  the  use  of  certain  agency  devices.  Thus,  these  grammatical  choices  served  to  confirm the  existence  of  a  link  between  women’s  passivized  existence  and  their  lives  in  extremist theocratic  societies.
Keywords: The  Scarlet  Letter,  A  Thousand  Splendid  Suns theocracy.  , passivity,  feminist  stylistics,

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This study examined how discursive strategies and related linguistic devices were employed by The New York Times (TNYT) to portray Iran after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001, and how the media representation may have contributed to negative and/or positive outcomes in terms of geopolitical relations. The study also investigated how sociopolitical assumptions were manifest in producing news about Iran and how the news discourse continued to shape the power relations between the nation and the U.S. in particular, and the world at large. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a multidisciplinary approach, the analysis focused on 171 front-page TNYT news articles from 2001 until 2009. Analysis of the discursive strategies and linguistic means revealed that the news media depicted an overall negative picture of Iran after the September 11 or “9/11” attacks. The effect of this rather stereotypical construction of Iran in TNYT was that of the negative Other, a nation of people that formed part of George W. Bush’s contentious “axis of evil” thesis–malevolent, untrustworthy, violent, and a threat to world peace.

This study explores transitivity in the novel “To the Lighthouse” (1927)
by Virginia Woolf as one of the methods of clause analysis in the
ideational meta-function of language. The transitivity analysis was
carried out by using AntConc 3.5.7 corpus analysis tool software,
through which the text of the novel was first tagged and then analysed.
This was clause analysis and all the types of processes, participants and
circumstances were investigated. The research is for language
researchers to analyse and interpret text of different genres of literature.

This paper aims to examine the character type of the main character in “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green. It also aims to unfold the development of the character type through analyzing the text’s linguistic features in the light of Transitivity theory as proposed by M.A.K. Halliday.
The paper will be divided into parts. The first part explains the relationship between language used in literary texts and fictional characters and its types. The second part includes the related studies employing transitivity. The third part expounds the theoretical framework used in the analysis of the text – the Systemic Functional Language particularly the Transitivity Theory as proposed by M.A.K. Halliday. The fourth introduces the author of the Fault in Our Stars, John Green and includes a short summary of the novel to be analyzed. The fifth presents the analysis of Transitivity in “The Fault in Our Stars”. The observation about the text and the findings of the analysis is discussed in the sixth part.
Keywords: Systemic Functional Linguistic, Transitivity, meaning, The Fault in Our Stars, character type, ideology

This study reorients representation of love in Oscar Wilde's short story The Nightingale and the Rosein a more focused way by subjecting it to Halliday's transitivity model of text analysis. The transitivity analysis showed how Wilde balances the concept of love which, upon cursory glance, appears to tilt towards the protagonist, the nightingale, with the arousal of sympathy. Transitivity analysis of the short story by taking into account the processes associated with the main characters enabled to bring to limelight Wilde's widely acknowledged and debated view of contraries by presenting the nightingale and the young student of philosophy as two contrary views of love balancing each other. The finding through linguistic tool of transitivity is based on the assumption that language form is not fortuitous, but performs a communicative function.

Since its inception, psychology has struggled with issues of conceptualisation and operationalisation of social-psychological phenomena. The study of social values and points of view has been prone to such difficulties, despite a predominant concern of qualitative distinctions in the variability of both of these phenomena across different individuals and social groups. And whilst interest in both traces a common origin in Rokeach’s studies of narrow-mindedness, the study of both phenomena has since proceeded apace. In this paper, we posit a renewed reconciliation between the two that is best served through a social-psychological model of points of view in terms of the values that inspire them. We draw on critical linguistics to propose a theoretical and methodological framework that can aid a systematic study of value structures as they take different forms and meanings through particular types of points of view. In five stages of qualitative analysis, the model deconstructs utterances into distinct terms that reveal a predominant perspective-taking style that can be utilised towards the categorisation of different points of view, in terms of values that imbue them and that serve to provide them with a coherent angle of constructing a particular narrative.

The paper presents a study of two extracts (292 and 276 words, respectively), both depicting bombing scenes, from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. While the two novels are typically considered to be very close in terms of their pacifist message and the reaction they provoke in their readers, they use very different means to convey the absurdity of war. An analysis of transitivity patterns along the lines of Systemic Functional Linguistics shows how some of the differences that contribute to the overall impression can be attributed to the transitivity patterns used by the authors. War is essentially presented as a material event in Catch-22 (14 out of 17 processes are material), but as a mainly relational one in Slaughterhouse-Five, where relational and existential processes put together significantly outweigh material ones (20 relational and existential processes vs. 11 material processes out of 35). The choice of process types helps construct the prominent ideas of the novels in question such as fatalism and the structure of time in Slaughterhouse-Five, and the individual’s struggle for survival in Catch-22. The means by which the authors create their unique styles are further revealed when ergativity is taken into account: Agent as the external agency, the entity that brings the happening about and is responsible for the action, represents only 3 out of 45 participant roles in the extract from Vonnegut, and as many as 7 out of 26 participant roles in the excerpt from Heller’s novel.

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses transitivitas yang paling dominan digunakan dalam teks report dan kaitannya dengan prinsip dasar teks report. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan penerapan teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional pada transitivitas. Data dalam penelitian ini merupakan 29 klausa yang diperoleh dari teks report yang digunakan dalam Ujian Nasional kelas sembilan SMP. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa keenam jenis proses transitivitas digunakan dalam teks report. Namun, proses yang paling banyak digunakan adalah material (44%) dan relasional (31%). Hal ini menandakan kedua proses tersebut berperan penting dalam memberikan informasi dan gambaran yang jelas sehingga para pembaca mampu memahami obyek yang dijelaskan dalam teks report. Abstract This research aimed at investigating the most dominant of transitivity process used in report text and how it relates with the nature of report text. It employed descriptive qualitative design and applied Systemic Functional Linguistics on Transitivity. The data were 29 clauses taken from report texts used in ninth grade's National Exam. The result of this research revealed that six types of transitivity processes found in the report texts. Yet, material (44%) and relational (31%) were found to dominate the rest of the processes. This implied that those two processes serve important roles in providing clear information and description for the readers to understand the object being described in report text.

This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in order to achieve its economic goals. Recipients are targeted through the application of the prevalent ideology of femininity, which in the Western context is increasingly dependent on patterns of consumption of body-oriented products and services against the background of (male) expectations of the female body ideal. It is argued that in this situation, which merges the private with the public and in which women willingly participate in the self-perpetuating ideology of male-defined femininity, women may, for various reasons, identify with the super-ideal sexualized images of women offered to them, while indulging in a mixture of fantasy and reality and sharing in the guilty knowledge that their own imperfect bodies need to be fixed. This article points out that such ideologies are very effectively studied through their multimodal realizations, where the visual mode, in particular, can non-verbally draw on and reproduce stereotyped representations.

This study explores transitivity in the novel "To the Lighthouse" (1927) by Virginia Woolf as one of the methods of clause analysis in the ideational meta-function of language. The transitivity analysis was carried out by using AntConc 3.5.7 corpus analysis tool software, through which the text of the novel was first tagged and then analysed. This was clause analysis and all the types of processes, participants and circumstances were investigated. The research is for language researchers to analyse and interpret text of different genres of literature.

The researcher has used of transitivity analysis on spoken discourse. Discourse can be spoken or written , it is a conceptual generalization of conversation in a specific context so here researcher has used experiential analysis on Quaid-e-Azam speech. The research is conducted to find out the processes used in Quaid-e-Azam speech as the meanings are derived from language and these meanings convey information about a situation. He analyzed the speech with the help of linguistic term SLF introduced by Michael Halliday. He used the transitivity analysis on Quaid-e-Azam speech and discussed the processes. The researcher has used Mix Method approach which contains both qualitative and quantitative method of research.

This paper attempts to use Transitivity and Critical Linguistics to demonstrate that news is (or can be) socially constructed and that reality is more about opinions and propositions than facts. The language that is used to represent people and events is woven from options and choices within the linguistic system that may not be value-free or coincidental. T h e s e c h o i c e s c a n s e e k t o r e p r e s e n t t h e w o r l d i n a p a r t i c u l a r id eo lo gicallyenforced manner . T he analysis do ne in this p aper using transitivity framework indicates how grammatical resources like agency deletion, negative/positive representation of actors, foregrounding/backgrounding, nominalization and so on are used by both the New York Times and Arab News to foster ideological interests and to underscore their favored worldviews. In the Operation Cast Lead war between Israel and Hamas, the Arab News reports are shown to be very critical of Israel while defending Hamas. The New York Times, on the other hand, is shown as mitigating Israeli assaults and indicting Hamas mostly for the overall negative consequences of the war.

In homage to the work of Uroš Mozetič, the paper takes as its starting point previously developed suggestions about how the language of “Eveline” conveys a picture of the heroine as a passive, paralysed character. Using Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics as a model of stylistic analysis, it investigates the contribution of both the ideational and the interpersonal metafunctions to the meaning of the text. The results extend and amend some ideas from the literature, such as the supposed prevalence of stative verbs, and suggest that while the short story as a whole predominantly uses material processes, their potential for change is mitigated by Joyce’s aspect, tense, and usuality choices. Eveline as the main character crucially has the role of a Senser, observing and internally reacting to the world around her, and even the processes in which she acts upon things and people are modalised and shown to be either hypothetical or instigated by others.

This paper is entitled “Transitivity Analysis of Senior High School Student’s Descriptive Text”. The purposes of the paper are to find out the processes on every clause and to acquire a clear description of the transitivity system.
This research uses documentation method to collect the data, the data were taken from a senior high school student’s essay. In data analyzing, the author use following steps; first, reading the text. Second, segmenting the data in form of clauses. Third, identifying the types of processes, participants, and circumstances. Fourth, classifying the clauses into categories of transitivity process type. Fifth, concluding the field of discourse of the text. And the last is drawing conclusions.
There are 27 clauses of transitivity found in the text. Possessive process dominates over the other process, it indicates that the text is descriptive text. The result shows that transitivity system can analyze clauses effectively.

A critical approach to discourse analysis can provide valuable insight into language as a social semiotic system, the discursive construction of identity and the operations of ideology and power. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, it aims to explore process types constituting the transitivity system of language Thai undergraduates employed to enact the identities of the Baan Nontapum Foundation (BNF) or Home for Children with Disabilities, and disability in their website project. Secondly, the study attempts to further examine how and why those discursive strategies were utilized. Relying on Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis and Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics, a critical analysis of the discourse revealed the participants' utilization of material processes to be far more frequent than other process types. Additionally, the Actor was found to be the participant function associated with the BNF, whereas the Goal and the Beneficiary were most frequently linked with disabled children. This transitivity analysis of process types and participant roles discloses that the BNF plays the role of an active agent that initiates and offers different forms of assistance to disabled children who do not seem to have any strong agency to voice their needs. In spite of being expected to be able to live independently, children with disabilities are represented as those who solely receive assistance which is assumed to be useful for them by others in the society.

This study aims to explore talisman advertisements as examples of persuasive discourse widely found in Thailand. In the Thai context, the advertising of talismans and Buddha images seems prevalent in a wide range of printed media  leaflets, newspapers, magazines, and books. Data for this paper are drawn from a corpus consisting of twenty talisman advertisements. All of them are taken from Thailand's best selling-printed newspaper  Thairath. This talisman corpus is composed of 629 clause complexes and 2,565 clause simplexes (involving a little over 20,000 words). The study explores the talisman advertisements stratally by investigating three strata  context, semantics and lexicogrammar. Contextually, the generic structure of the persuasive discourse  Generic Structural Potential  is proposed. Semantically, some nuclear and elaborative semantic properties realizing each generic stage are discussed. Lexicogrammatically, an exploration of experiential resources is the main focus of this study: how talisman advertisements are construed grammatically in the transitivity system of Thai.

Bibliography 65 iii I am deeply grateful to my advisor, Professor Mira Ariel, for her guidance throughout my linguistics studies in general and this work specifically. I most grateful for her introducing me to Construction Grammar and to usage based approaches to language. I would also like to thank Professor Ruth Berman for her comments, and for allowing me to participate in her research group, from which I learned greatly about linguistic research and linguistic thinking. Many thanks to my friends, Lyle Lustigman and Erez Volk, for their insights, criticism, support, and friendship. Finally I would like to thank my family, for their love and support.

Ideational meaning, or some linguist called experiential meaning is the meaning that expresses the experience or the idea of someone on producing text. Ideational meaning is one of three metafunction in Systemic Functional Linguistic Study. Ideational meaning realized by transitivity in the clause. Transitivity involves processes, participants and circumtances. Ideational meaning represents an experience of the writer or the speaker of some text, that's why Ideational meaning also called clause as representation. Many people recognize this Ideational meaning to analyze the clauses. In this research, the writer will use Ideational meaning terms to analyze HIV AIDS slogans. HIV AIDS epidemic is a huge case around the world. Many organizations and people use a slogan to convey some messages or to advertize some information, including HIV AIDS case. This preliminary research has a finding that HIV AIDS slogans has 50% material process, 38% relational process, 6% mental process, 6% verbal process.

From the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) standpoint, experiential meanings reflect our experience, perceptions, and consciousness. Research on experiential meaning-making in tertiary contexts has traditionally focused on areas such as mathematics, journalism and media, science and computing, nursing, and history. This paper aims to investigate the experiential multimodal meanings in an undergraduate marketing course. The data comprised three written assignments and the tutor's two model texts. The study employed a multidimensional approach by Alyousef (2013), which is framed by SFL (Halliday 2014) and O'Halloran's (2005, 1998, 2008, 1999) multisemiotic framework for the analysis of semiotic codes in mathematics. The results showed that the experiential meanings in the students' marketing plan texts were primarily construed through material processes and both explicit and implicit relational identifying processes. The findings indicated how mathematical symbolism is encoded in the multisemiotic texts, in the most economical manner, by using grammatical strategies of structural condensation. The results also noted the extent to which the different modes of meaning were integrated in the texts.

This master’s thesis wants to contribute to a further understanding of the small participation of women in bachelor programs in Computer Science (CS).
To do so, it analyzes the dialogue between normative gender discourse and occupational discourse in the field of CS as found
on web-sites of CS departments. Its aim is to describe the linguistic construction of the class “computer scientist” referring to three different web-sites of CS departments in Brazil, Italy and Austria and comparing them with the normative construction of female and male gender categories.
The analysis is based on Fairclough’s problem-orientated CDA approach, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics and an analysis of referential gender with regard to person-related nouns referring to the class “computer scientist”. The data used has been collected in accordance to pre-established content categories from the departmental university homepages, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University of Vienna. Statistics and material concerning the different institutional contexts have also been consulted in order to better understand the social problem.
Results from Transitivity analysis suggest that gender is markedly built into the discursive construction of the occupational class “computer scientist”. The main values that define the institutional subject “computer scientist” are mathematical abilities, reasoning capacities,
cognitive skills and a things-focus as opposed to a person-focus. These values are in normative discourse closely associated with the male gender norm and constructed in opposition to the female gender norm. Further person-reference is mainly carried out by means of semantically
male marked nouns, by what is commonly referred to as male generic-um. This further (re)constitutes CS as a field in which the male gender is prototypical and the female gender is excluded. The web-site of the University of Vienna constitutes an exception with regard to gender-inclusive language, due to the effective legal framework.
This master thesis has shown that the properties of occupational discourse as presented in institutional communication on the analyzed web-sites have to be carefully considered from a gender-sensitive perspective, in order to understand how discourse reflects and (re)constitutes the institutional subject "computer scientist" in opposition to the gender norm "female". Five recommendations, directed towards specific modifications regarding institutional communication, are put forward in this thesis, and are expected to foster the participation of women in the field of CS.

Learning journal enables students to reflect of what they have experienced in the learning process. This article presents the students' learning journal in grammar class. For some students, grammar is seen as a course which does not attract their interest. It resulted on their ignorance of the course. However, students have to face the fact that grammar is an integral part of their literacy as it affects the meaning of their utterances, both spoken and written. The participants involved were the 37 students of English Letters Department, Sanata Dharma University. The students were in Structure IV course, one of grammar classes offered by the study program. The instruments involved were the students' learning journal wrtten during the semester and their final grades. The learning journal was analyzed by means of Halliday's transitivity. The findings reveal that most of the students used material process in their learning journal, while mental and relational processes do not appear often in the journal. The students' achievement in class is dominated by an A in the end of the semester. Relating the two findings above, this article concludes that students' practice of their knowledge in their social life affects their achievement in class. The employment of material process in the students' learning journal reveals the students' practice and purpose of learning grammar.

Despite previous genre studies investigating various professional report genres in different contexts, disciplines and languages, professional report genre in forestry discipline remains the least explored, particularly from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective. To date, limited findings were reported on how Malay language is used in forestry professional context. This study explored the elements that constitute the generic structure potential (GSP) for forest resource reports (FRR) in forestry discipline, how language is used to represent experiential and textual functions and the role of FRR genre. Six FRR written in Malay and three interviews with forestry officers were used as research data in this study. This qualitative genre analysis study utilised SFL analytical frameworks and semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed that FRR is a hybrid genre which constitutes 10 obligatory main elements and 17 sub-elements explicating typical letter and forestry-related genre elements whereby the GSP for FRR takes a linear representation. Besides, the experiential function of FRR genre was used mainly to represent activities performed by forestry officers through the dominant use of Action processes whereby forest areas are seen as the entity most affected by activities taking place. On the other hand, descriptions of forest areas were supplemented mainly through circumstance of Location. Findings on the textual function revealed that FRR genre maintains topic on forest areas as the theme selection, and the overall organisation was established through a derived Theme progression pattern to position specific details of forest areas and its resources. Meanwhile, findings on the role of FRR genre indicated that FRR provides a preliminary observation and information to assist forestry department in deciding future directions and planning of forestry-related matters. The implication of this study centres on how exploration of genre elements, representation of experiential and textual functions and roles can be explored from SFL genre and metafunctional perspective in studying the use of Malay language.

This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit that the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T. Tsunoda on Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu on Japanese, Korean and Newari, N. Sumbatova on Svan (from the Kartvelian group), T.Bulygina & A. Shmelev, V. Plungian, Y. Poupynin, E. Rakhilina and G. Silnitsky on Russian, W. Boeder on Georgian, R. Thieroff on aorist and imperfect in European languages, on Russian, L. Johanson on Kipchak Turkic, I. Dolinina on Russian, N. Kozintseva on Old and Modern Eastern Armenian, Ch. Lee on Korean, W. Abraham on split ergative languages and German on Russian, on Russian, and K. Ebert on Kalmyk.

The linguistic study of African-American literary texts opens up a wide area of research. Due to this fact this research tries to establish a connection between two areas of study. The first one is Critical Discourse Analysis and the second one focuses on Bakhtin's ideas of novel. This study applies transitivity as a tool of Critical Discourse Analysis in order to examine the ideologies of a racial society adopted in Invisible Man. In addition, what is highlighted in this novel is the presence of the author who tries to make a new ideology. Here a new dialogue emerges and this is a key to establish a connection between the two areas of study. This novel, according to Bakhtin is neither homophonic nor polyphonic. A new kind of novel develops which the researcher calls it a novel of dialogic ideology.

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology.

The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated.

Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective.

In the grammatical level of analysis, transitivity is one of the choices. The role of verb in a clause determines its process and participants, and thus imply particular meanings. This research took two chapters as the research data taken from a novel by Åsne Seierstad entitled The Bookseller of Kabul. Talking about literature about Afghanistan society, what attracts this research is the Afghan character named Sharifa. The research found that Seierstad employed various types of processes, participants and circumstances to describe Sharifa. First, the use of Actor and of material process aims at portraying the responsibility of an Afghan wife in spite of the sorrow seen from the mental process with Sharifa as the Senser. The use of relational process with Sharifa as the Carrier is to attach her to particular character, both physical and psychological states. In sum, the novel portrays the Afghan wife as a submissive, yet devoted character.

While extant research has studied the clause in its experiential function in relation to both everyday/academic discourse and informed our understanding of how transitivity analysis can be employed productively in diverse contexts, there is still room for exploration, particularly in examining the human experience. Here, the clause plays a central role, as it embodies what Halliday (1994) terms “the general principle for modelling experience – namely, the principle that reality is made up of processes.” The present study applies Halliday’s transitivity analysis to two written texts on the topic of isolation, but which differ in tenor (i.e., they are addressed to two different types of audiences). The presentation will discuss how “patterns of experience” (Halliday, 1994) related to the topic of isolation are represented through process types as well as participants in the process and circumstances associated with the process. This presentation will also discuss how Systemic Functional Linguistics may provide a useful theoretical framework for the purpose of text analysis and how teachers may productively employ such an analysis in fostering learners' critical and creative thinking skills.
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Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses transitivitas yang paling dominan digunakan dalam teks report dan kaitannya dengan prinsip dasar teks report. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan penerapan teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional pada transitivitas. Data dalam penelitian ini merupakan 29 klausa yang diperoleh dari teks report yang digunakan dalam Ujian Nasional kelas sembilan SMP. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa keenam jenis proses transitivitas digunakan dalam teks report. Namun, proses yang paling banyak digunakan adalah material (44%) dan relasional (31%). Hal ini menandakan kedua proses tersebut berperan penting dalam memberikan informasi dan gambaran yang jelas sehingga para pembaca mampu memahami obyek yang dijelaskan dalam teks report. Kata Kunci: teks report, transitivitas, linguistik sistemik fungsional   This research aimed at investigating the most dominant of transitivity process used in report text an...

Causative constructions in Tuvinian: towards a typology of transitivity Leonid Kulikov Introductory remarks The present paper deals with an interesting peculiarity of Tuvinian causa-tive constructions. The feature on which I shall focus is not only important for an adequate ...

The typical paradigm adopted in cultural studies research and teaching methodologies alike is more often than not the interpretative approach to the available data. The present paper speculates that the cross-verification of the outcome of the interpretative approach by means of the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Transitivity analytical toolkit in application to the collected data not only confirms the findings and concluding remarks, but even allows additional discernments about aspects that the cultural studies researchers or practitioners may overlook. This hypothesis has been tested with regard to the interpretative findings about a lecture by the current spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam, an African American sect. The content analysis of such an ethnic-religious discourse has reflected the identification hesitance of the mouthpiece of the sect as one swaying between separatism and social integration or, simply, between Islamity and Americanity. With respect to this finding, the cross-checking by means of the significant Experiential characteristics of Transitivity has proved conclusive, as will be shown. Although at this stage more identical surveys will certainly be needed for testing this hypothesis further, it is recommended in the interim that such an interdisciplinary approach be adopted in application to cultural studies research and classes, both.

This research is an investigation into the language use in people's opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. Capital punishment was executed to six drug convicts on January 18 th , 2015. Controversy about this action has risen before and after the execution. People give their opinions in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and newspapers. The Jakarta Post is a well-known English newspaper in Indonesia which has a lot of readers. People choose this newspaper to convey their ideas so that their opinions will be read by people around the world. As the issue about capital punishment is popular recently, this research attempts at finding out people's ideology about capital punishment for drug convicts. Critical discourse analysis was conducted in this research as an approach to figure out how language use by the people can reveal their ideology of capital punishment. This research focused on observing four opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. The analysis shows that material processes dominate the opinions, followed by relational, mental and verbal processes. The ideologies revealed in the opinions are power, pessimism, and criticism. Before the execution, pessimism dominates the opinions, while after the execution criticism appears most in the opinions. Abstrak: Penelitian ini merupakan sebuah investigasi terhadap penggunaan bahasa dalam opini masyarakat mengenai hukuman mati

Este trabajo se enmarca dentro del proyecto " Procesos verbales en la escritura académica a la luz de la Gramática Sistémico-Funcional " que se llevó a cabo en el Centro de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universi-dad Nacional Autónoma de México. El objetivo es presentar el análisis de textos pertenecientes a tres géneros de ámbito curricular (preguntas-respuestas, ensayos y reseñas) y uno de ámbito extra-curricular (artículos de investigación) en términos de frecuencia de procesos verbales y sus características proyectantes. Los resultados indican que existe variación importante entre la frecuencia de procesos verbales y sus características proyectantes en cada género analizado.

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

Transitivity can be used as a stylistic device used to elucidate writers' worldview through types of processes at the level of semantic construction. This paper aims to conduct a corpus-based transitivity analysis to compare tonal styles in each of the rhetorical moves between Thai and international dental research abstracts. The datasets were constructed upon 120 dental research article abstracts randomly selected from six Thai refereed dental journals (TDRAAs) and from top five international dental journals (IDRAAs) ranked by IF (Impact Factors), respectively. The datasets were analyzed based on six process types of Halliday and Matthiessen's (1994) and Thompson's (2000) verbal choices of transitivity. Although both datasets shared resemblances in terms of transitivity types found in each of the rhetorical moves, verbal and existential processes were only found in Methodology moves of TDRAAs. Verbal processes were also highlighted in Discussion moves of IDRAAs. The results can be used to raise awareness of pedagogical implications for ESP courses designed for Thai dental students. It also addresses the significance of tonal styles propelled by the process types of transitivity while researchers recount experiment-based dental research studies.

Considered as the universal language, music has been historically a means of communication and personal expression about the inner and outer world of its creator, it is present in almost every social activity of human beings as in the habitual religious celebration of Christmas across the largely Catholic countries. Therefore, the present paper will provide a descriptive text analysis of ten traditional Latin American Christmas folk songs on the base of the transitivity system informed by the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. To reach this goal, both a quantitative and qualitative research method approach was applied. Findings indicated that among the six analyzed transitivity process types, the material processes (32%) dominate the construal of the musical pieces, followed by the mental (23%), behavioral (18%), and relational realizations (13%) whereas the verbal and existential processes are relatively low all together representing an overall frequency of 14%. This reveals the singers' attempt to represent the Christmas season as a nostalgic time leap, an immediate enjoyment, and a rewarding exchange.