A functional analysis of transitivity eveline

Abstract EN

The linguistic structure of “Eveline”, as a narrative text, has an explanatory power in revealing the psychological and physical features of Eveline as a central character in the text concerned in this paper.

The exploration of the patterns of transitivity, in the semantic sense of transitivity, as a functional model of linguistic structure, proved crucial for understanding the way in which the personal traits of a character can be reflected through specific choices of linguistic features.

That is, the patterns of transitivity have been systematically employed in the language of the text, such that, the language constructs a clear-cut picture of Eveline’s dramatic dilemma.

Four patterns have been employed throughout this short story : material, mental, verbalization, and relational with the structure of each contributing a lot to highlight the underlying theme asserted by the linguistic features of “Eveline” as one specific textual configuration chosen out of many other possible ones.