A CORPUS-BASED TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF PAKISTANI ENGLISH NOVEL “AMERICAN FEVER”

Transitivity analysis plays a vital role in systemic functional linguistics for analyzing the ideology of the author, characterization and thematic analysis in a literary work beyond the sentence structure. This research conducted an in-depth transitivity analysis of the novel "American Fever" by Dur e Aziz Amna. This study aims to identify the participants, process along with sub-types, and circumstances at the clausal level and to find out the role of power relationships and dynamics by the most prevalent type of transitivity process for the establishment of meaning and interpretation of discourse through transitivity. Some research has been conducted on this novel, but no study has investigated processes of the transitivity system in the novel American Fever, so this study was focused on the six processes: material, mental, behavioral, verbal, relational, and existential that fall under the ideational meta-function. This research employed a mixed methodology to classify and find transitivity processes in American Fever and power dynamics in the novel. The theoretical framework used for transitivity analysis was Halliday and Hasan's (1994) model of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), and data was analyzed by using a computer software UAM corpus tool (version 3.6) developed for measuring the frequency and percentage of the processes. The results revealed that the most dominant process found is the material process with a frequency of 5803 and a percentage (11.6%), and these processes explored further themes related to power  relationships and dynamics. This research is quite significant for the researchers of language as they can interpret and analyze different styles of narratives.