Transitivity Analysis

Transitivity analysis of law of Punjab Government and its urdu translation
Introduction:
This study is all about transitivity analysis of Provincial legislation and its Urdu translation. Halliday defines “transitivity as the development of old concept of transitive and intransitive verbs” (halliday: 1976:159). Transitivity is key component of first metafunction of systemic functional grammar. Halliday’s idea of transitivity is based on three components, what he calls transitivity process. This research is about to analyze how processes are being used in sources text and how similarly and differently such processes are translated.
The concept of transitivity is very wide. Different researches have been done to explain the phenomenon of transitivity

Her research comprises of 6 chapters in which she adopts an interdisciplinary approach, combining systemic linguistics and corpus studies with socio-historical research within a descriptive framework to study the translator’s discursive presence in the text. She examined four translations of Chinese origin including Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), by Hai Guan (1956), Wu Lao (1987), Li Xiyin (1987) and Zhao Shaowei (1987). She has investigated concerns of modality, rendering of transitivity, direct speech and free direct thought presentation as well as the switching of point of views. She has discussed textual features onto specific ideological and sociocultural contexts of production in an attempt to identify connections between

Type of process General idea Example
Material process of doing/ action do, spring, catch, resign, dissolve, combine, play, go, fetch, fall, break, mend, etc.
Mental Process of sensing sense, like, please, feel, think, perceive, long for, know, see, believe, hear, fear, understand, etc.
Behavioral Represents both activities of sensing and doing. look, watch, stare, listen, think, worry, dream, chatter, grumble, talk, cry, laugh, smile, frown, sigh, snarl, whine, breathe, cough, faint, shit, yawn, sleep, sing, dance, lie, sit, etc.
Verbalization Process of saying say, tell, ask, describe, repeat, outline, explain, order, promise, speak, imply, indicate, show, demonstrate, signify, suggest, etc.
Relational Relationship between two entities be, play, act as, serve as, mean, indicate, suggest, imply, show, betoken, mark, reflect, equal, make, comprise, include, represent, constitute, form, exemplify, illustrate, express, signify, realize, spell, stand for, become, remain, etc.
Existential Existential process include the word ‘there’ as dummy subject. be, exist, remain, arise, occur, come about, happen, take