A Systemic-Functional Grammatical Analysis of Woolf’s Story

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the types of transitivity processes used in Virginia Woolf's short story "The Mark on the Wall". Transitivity is an essential tool in Halliday's systemic-functional grammar theory, which focuses on the grammatical structure of language and how language is used to convey the meaning. In SFG, language is divided into three metafunctions: Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual. This study focuses on the ideational metafunction of language. The researcher selects transitivity as a representation of ideational metafunction. . This study employed the framework of transitivity proposed by Halliday. This study explains how transitivity helps Woolf express her ideologies, experiences, inner feelings, perspectives and attitudes toward the English society.