Importance Of Linguistic Analysis In Literature

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The main function of language is to enable speakers to create a picture of reality and to make sense of their experience of what goes on around them.
Halliday (1985:101) claims that “Our most powerful conception of reality is that it consists of „goings-on‟: of doing, feeling, happening, being. These goings-on are sorted out in the semantic system of the language, and explored through the grammar of the clause.” Clause is evolved in the grammatical function expressing the reflective, experiential aspect of language. This is the system of transitivity. “Transitivity specifies the different types of processes that are recognized in the structure and the language by which they are expressed.” (ibid). Halliday and Matthiessen (2004:175) …show more content…

The importance of involving linguistic analysis to literature lies in examining the linguistic features of a text which can contribute a great deal to the readers' understanding. The reason behind paying attention to the linguistic study of literature emerges from the fact that any literary work is a piece of language. Some other scholars consider "stylistics" as part of linguistics. Crystal and Davy, (1969:9) see that linguistics is an academic discipline which studies language scientifically whereas stylistics studies certain aspects of language variation and therefore it is essentially of that discipline. Turner (1973:8) defines' stylistics' as the part of linguistics which concentrates on variation in the use of language, often, but not exclusively, with special attention to the most conscious and complex uses of language in literature. Stylistics is not only the science of literature but also the study of sound patterns. It is also the study of rhythm and meter, vocabulary, syntax, and even the study of structures exceeding the limits of a sentence (Wellek: …show more content…

English and Arabic are similar rather than different in their main functional systems at the level of metafunctions.
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Definition and variables: Transitivity has been defined in rigorous ways during the history of linguistics. Traditionally, transitivity was understood as a semantic phenomenon: Transitive sentences were sentences which describe events that involve a transfer of energy from subject to object. (e.g. 'he killed the man'). Structurally these are mostly sentences with a grammatical subject and a direct (accusative) object (at least in the languages that were the targets of description). In the golden era of formal grammars transitivity became a purely formal concept: Verbs (or more rarely sentences) with a direct object were classified as transitive and those without one as intransitive without taking their semantics into account (Jacobsen 1985:89). Transitivity specifies the different types of processes that are recognized in the language and the structures by which they are expressed. (Halliday: 1985; 101)
In Halliday’s concept of transitivity there are three components of processes:
1. The process

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