A CORPUS-BASED TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF ‘NOBODY KILED HER’ BY SBAYN JAVERI

Abstract

Transitivity analysis is a popular method for examining the author‘s ideology, character analysis and other characteristics beyond the level of sentence. This research paper deals with the transitivity analysis in the Pakistani novel Nobody Killed Her written by Sabyn Javeri. The objective of this study is to analyze the participants, processes, and the circumstances that arise on the level of clause and to find out the power dynamics through the frequently occurring transitivity processes. This study also focused on the power relations or power dynamics to establish the meaning and interpretation of discourse through transitivity. Several analyses have been done on the novel Nobody Killed Her but no study has investigated the transitivity processes, so this study focused on the six processes; material, mental, relational, verbal, behavioral and existential fall under ideational or experiential meta-functions (one of the meta-functions). Material Process is the dominant process in the novel with the frequency 12.7%. According to the findings, the researcher found out that material process was dominant throughout the novel. Halliday and Hasan‘s (1994) model provided a systematic way to interpret the nuances of transitivity processes within the novel‘s narrative. The data was analyzed using the UAM corpus tool (Version 6.2).