Transitivity Analysis of ‘The Old Building’ by Imdad Hussein: A Corpus-Based Study

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Hira Haroon
Muhammad Farukh Arslan

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This study is based on the detailed analysis of the poem ‘The Old Building’ by Pakistani poet Imdad Hussein. This article proposes a thorough analysis of ideational metafunction under transitivity analysis. For this purpose, UAM tool was used for Transitivity analysis includes different processes and through these items, we can put a stance on any context with verb to subject and these processes involve six kinds: material process, mental process, behavioral processes, relational process, verbal process and weathering. This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic structures and its meaning in the literary poem through ideational metafunction, based on Gerot-Wignell (1994) and Halliday's (1995) models of transitivity.

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Haroon, H., & Arslan, M. F. (2021). Transitivity Analysis of ‘The Old Building’ by Imdad Hussein: A Corpus-Based Study. Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, 3(2), 24–27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14826959
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