Abstract
The present study investigates how the writer has established different characters in the story with the choice of linguistic features. For this purpose the data were taken from the famous short story titled “The Happy Prince” written by an Irish writer Oscar Wilde. The researcher applied the systemic functional linguistic theory presented by Halliday for transitivity analysis of the text. The text was manually analysed by the researcher. All the processes, participants and circumstances were recognized from the whole text. They were arranged in the form of tables and charts. The results were discussed in the qualitative method of research. The results show that three types of process i.e. material (43.41%), relational (20.26%) and verbal (17.04%) were predominant in the whole text. The highest dominance of the material process shows that the writer has created dynamic and tangible actions in the text. Similarly circumstances of location i.e. place (52%) and time (20%) were dominant in the whole text. The significance of the study was also discussed in the educational perspective.
Highlights
It has been acknowledged that those who study and make the use of a language are keen on how they can get things done with language, how they can influence implications to develop and be comprehended through selections of words and linguistic properties
For Halliday (1985, xiv), "a language is described as an arrangement of implications, joined by frames through which the implications can be acknowledged and answer the inquiry, "how are these implications communicated?" This puts the types of a language in an alternate point of view: as necessary chore, rather than as an end in themselves." It is from this point of view of language that systemic functional linguistics was produced by Halliday and his partners during the 1960s
In this study the portrayal of the characters has been created through a close textual analysis of the selected text which is taken from the popular short story “The Happy Prince” produced by a famous writer Oscar Wilde
Summary
It has been acknowledged that those who study and make the use of a language are keen on how they can get things done with language, how they can influence implications to develop and be comprehended through selections of words and linguistic properties. In the meantime, how we discourse or write makes that very circumstance." In other words, language shapes and fortifies behaviours and believes, is a medium for prompting characters, exercises, qualities, and philosophies. A significant number of Wilde's plays were generally welcomed including his ironical comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his most well known play. Flighty in his written work and life, Wilde's undertaking with a young fellow prompted his capture on charges of "net profanity" in 1895. He was detained for a long time and passed on in destitution three years after his discharge at 46 years old
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