A systemic functional grammar analysis of transitivity patterns and worldview in E. M. Forsters a passage to India

العناوين الأخرى

تحليل القواعد الوظيفية النظامية لأنماط التعدي و الرؤى العالمية في رواية الكاتب أي أم فورستر-رحلة الى الهند

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Mashaqibah, Hanan Muwaffaq

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

al-Hajj, Sulayman
Nawfal, Khalil

الجامعة

جامعة فيلادلفيا

الكلية

كلية الآداب و الفنون

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2009

الملخص الإنجليزي

The aim of this study is to investigate the linguistic structures that are used by E.M.

Forster in his A Passage to India to realize what Halliday calls the "ideational" function of language, i.e.

the "transitivity system".

This thesis seeks to reveal how the author reflects and represents the main characters' worldviews in the novel through the linguistic structure.

The 'Transitivity' patterns within Halliday's model of Systemic Functional Grammar were presented and used in the study as an analytical framework to see how the selection of certain linguistic options realizes and encodes the main characters' worldviews or ideologies.

The analysis focuses on the three main processes within the transitivity system i.e.

Material, Mental and Relational, among other minor ones: Behavioural, Existential, and Verbal.

The systemic functional analysis of the three main characters in Forster's A Passage to India has revealed that this analysis is a very important tool to uncover the meaning potentials that are embedded in the syntactic structures of the language used in the novel.

Moreover, through the analysis, the researcher managed to prove that there is a correlation between the transitivity patterns and the three main characters' worldviews (Dr.

Aziz, Mrs.

Moore, and Mr.

Fielding).

Finally, this analysis could be used to uncover the transitivity patterns in other English novels or literary works.

Moreover, any upcoming research can be dedicated to studying the functional framework in the Arabic literature.

التخصصات الرئيسية

الآداب

الموضوعات

• الهند
• المملكة المتحدة
• الأدب

عدد الصفحات

120

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-546119