Transitivity Analysis of the English Version of Hikayat Deli

Nurlela, Rohani Ganie, Rudy Sofyan

2018

Abstract

This article is aimed at exploring the transitivity system of “Hikayat Deli” as one of traditional narrative texts from Deli Malay. This text has been translated into bahasa Indonesia and English, and this article is particularly trying to finding out the uses of transitivity elements in the English version of “Hikayat Deli” text. A content analysis was used as the research method employing systemic functional linguistics as the approach. All of the clauses in the English version of “Hikayat Deli” text were taken as the data. The findings of this study were: (i) material, relational and verbal processes were the three most frequent types of processes used in the text, among which material process was the most dominant one; (ii) different parts of the text used certain types of processes dominantly; and (iii) circumstance of place was the type of circumstances most frequently used in the text. It is concluded that “Hikayat Deli” is a narrative text that entertains its readers through the action and noble characteristics of the characters realized in the frequent use of material and relational processes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nurlela., Ganie R. and Sofyan R. (2018). Transitivity Analysis of the English Version of Hikayat Deli.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1335-1341. DOI: 10.5220/0010073513351341

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Nurlela and Rohani Ganie and Rudy Sofyan},
title={Transitivity Analysis of the English Version of Hikayat Deli},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1335-1341},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010073513351341},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Transitivity Analysis of the English Version of Hikayat Deli
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Nurlela.
AU - Ganie R.
AU - Sofyan R.
PY - 2018
SP - 1335
EP - 1341
DO - 10.5220/0010073513351341