The Transitivity System in Graffiti Language: A Study of Selected Examples from Assiut City | ||
| المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 03 February 2025 | ||
| Document Type: بØوث علمية Ù…Øکمة | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aakj.2025.353093.1967 | ||
| Author | ||
| دينا Ø£Øمد Øسن* | ||
| مدرس لغة بقسم اللغة الإنجليزية كلية الآداب جامعة أسيوط | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Transitivity explains the world of experience in terms of a set of process types. This study aims to investigate the transitivity system in 227 graffiti images in Assiut City, Egypt. It follows Chouliaraki and Fairclough’s (1999) model of doing critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2004) Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). Based on the data analysis, the relational process comes first with 122 examples at 53.74% due to its characteristic that enables the graffitists to give information or establish a relationship between the concerned entities. The material process follows with 46 examples (20.26%), while mental processes are third, with 26 examples (11.45%). The existential process ranks fourth with 17 examples (7.49%), and the verbal process is fifth with 14 instances (6.16%). The behavioral process is the least frequent, with only two examples (0.88%), reflecting the nature of graffiti as a medium that does not typically depict physiological or psychological behaviors such as breathing, coughing, or dreaming. Overall, the relational process is the primary means for graffitists to characterize and interpret the world around them. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG); Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Transitivity; Graffiti; Assiut City | ||
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