Abstract

USING TRANSITIVITY AND FUNCTIONALIST STYLISTICS AS A FRAMEWORK IN STUDYING HASSAN BALASIMS SHORT STORY THE GREEN ZONE RABBIT

Eman Adil Jaafar, Zeena Mohammad Hassan

Volume: 9 Issue: 3 2019

Abstract:

This paper shows how transitivity can be used to classify verbs and clauses through many types of processes, and it aims to clarify the meaning that is beyond a literary work such as short stories and here the researchers aim to analyze "The Green Zone Rabbit” Written by the Iraqi writer Hassan Balasim and translated into English by Jonathan Wright in 2013 ، by using Transitivity system and Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) that is devised by Michael Halliday (Halliday, 1994; Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014).) to show how language is considered as a social semiotic system and as a resource for making meaning and choices, in addition, this paper illustrates the different points concerning stylistic applications of Halliday’s model of Transitivity, finally it shows the connection between linguistics and literature as a language through the use of functional stylistics.

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