Types Of Transition Processes Research Articles

Transitivity System of Markobar Text In Traditional Angkola Marriage

This research aims to describe transitivity process types in Markobar text. Quantitative data supported this qualitatively-oriented descriptive study. The subject of the investigation is a Markobar text in Angkola language. The research was designed using qualitative content analysis. Six indigenous elders and four parents were purposively selected as participants in this study. The data source used is oral data in the form of transcripts. Transitivity in Halliday's systemic functional grammar theory was applied to the data analysis. The study reveals the following two primary findings: 1) All of the six process types can be found in Angkola Markobar text; 2) Material process and mental process are the most frequently occurred process types in the traditional traditional text of Angkola. The dominant use of material process suggests that brides ought to practice the traditional Angkola skills mentioned. Besides, because Markobar text is a kind of oral tradition, the dominant use of mental processes places emphasis on expressing the innermost feelings, ideas, and views of Angkola people.

A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Spousal Conflictual Language in a Nigerian Play

This paperx-rayed language use drawn from excerpt of utterances by the spouses (characters) in the play, Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt anchoring on the Hallidayan Systemic functional linguisticas the theoretical framework known for analysing language structure and function. The purpose of this study is to reveal the experiential representation of conflictual language of the spouses in J.P. Clark’s Wives’ Revoltsthrough its transitivity processes. Twenty – nine (29) excerpts that depict the spousal conflictual lexico-grammatical forms are purposively selected from these plays after thorough readings and they are represented accordingly for easier referencing during analysis in order to determine the frequencies of the transitivity features, their roles, functions, and meanings. A qualitative method is used for data analysis. Results from descriptive analysis showed that spouses applied four (material, mental relational and verbal processes) out of six Hallidayan’s transitivity process types to express their experiences/actions feelings for each other, negative image of themselves, and their central point of argument during their conflictual interactivity. The result showed that experiential is construed through dominance of material process, followed by mental, relational, and verbal. The prevalence of the material is found to be as a result of spouses’ more of physical actions in their relations. Again, transitive verb which transfers action to an object is also found more prevalent and is used more by the male spouse. This reveals male dominance of power over his female counterpart. The occurrence of the transitive processes will help the reader to agree with the kernel structure of the conflicting issues.

A Transitivity Analysis of Two Political Articles: An Investigation of Gender Variations in Political Media Discourse

The purpose of the present study is to use transitivity analysis to investigate gender variations in political media discourse from the point of view of male and female columnists. To attain this purpose, this paper adopts a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Halliday’s theory of transitivity process types. Literature shows that gender variation is one of the key elements affecting language. However, variation in gender studies, particularly in article writing, has not been recently addressed in relation to transitivity analysis. To scrutinize types of transitivity involving material, mental, relational, verbal, existential, and behavioral processes, qualitative and quantitative methods were deployed to achieve a deep understanding of transitivity process types. Paired Sample T-Test has also been employed to investigate whether there is a significant difference in gender variations pertaining to frequencies of process types of transitivity. The results revealed that the material process has been the most frequent process used by female and male political columnists and has highly dominated the discourse in both articles. In addition, the finding showed that there is no significant difference in gender variations pertaining to the frequencies of process types of transitivity. Analyzing participants’ roles and circumstances elements could provide more pertinent data for further research.

Transitivity analysis of news texts on the Saudi ministry of health website: An investigation of health guidelines during COVID-19

The aim of this study is to investigate the awareness-raising activities and the health guidelines for protection from new coronavirus during this pandemic reported on the Ministry of Health website in Saudi Arabia. To achieve this aim, the study employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Halliday’s theory of transitivity process types adopted as a framework of news text. Literature showed that discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary area of investigation and an increasingly popular domain strategy for scholars in different fields. However, such a strategy has been little adopted by healthcare researchers. To analyze the transitivity process types (namely material, mental, verbal, relational, behavioral, and existential), quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed to get a better understanding of transitivity process types related to the news texts. Like other studies, the findings revealed that the material process type (60%) highly dominated the discourse in the two news texts. This implies the powerful role of events and actions to be undertaken. Unlike the first news text, the second news text however contains the behavioral process to meticulously highlight public awareness and action. Investigating participants’ roles as well as circumstances components may offer more data appropriate for further research.

Three speakers’ perspectives on experience in Taylor Swift’s selected lyrics from Folklore album

Pop songs are now an important means of expression for the modern generation. Academicians must consider this phenomenon as the object of language studies. This research attempts to analyze three songs in a Grammy-winning album of 2021, Folklore. Song lyrics in Betty, Cardigan, and August, written by Taylor Swift have the quality of narrative poetry (ballads) for having the characteristics of storytelling voiced by a different speaker in each song. The purpose of this research is to show how the varying amounts of transitivity process types in each lyric suggest different perspectives on reality. It uses a stylistic approach to expose the linguistic features that allow the speakers to portray diverse perspectives after going through a difficult relationship. As he apologizes to his partner, the speaker in Betty uses material process significantly to reconstruct the outer experiences. In Cardigan, the speaker emphasizes mental processes, incorporating her personal experience into her knowledge and memory. However, in August, the speaker uses both material and relational processes in equal proportions as she battles with her status in the relationship. Hence, listeners could identify with the various speakers' individual experiences as expressed in the lyrics.

Stability Study of a Neuro-Fuzzy Output System Based on Ratio Area Method

Purpose of research is to study the hypothesis about the possibility of changing the type of transition process during training in a neuro-fuzzy inference system based on area ratio method, and to study the properties of weight coefficient influence on its stability.Methods. An apparatus of fuzzy logic is used for the development of a neuro-fuzzy output system. At the same time, input and output variables are described by triangular membership functions. Mamdani implication model was used in the compositional rule. A linear model of area ratio was used in defasification. The reverse error propagation method was used during training.Results. In experimental studies, it was found that the proposed neuro-fuzzy model based on area ratio method allows to change the type of transition process, namely, to transform oscillatory process into an aperiodic (monotonic) process. In experimental studies, it was also found that the stability of neuro-fuzzy output system is more influenced by the weight coefficient determined in calculating the total area of membership output functions. Thus, the obtained results prove: first, that the proposed neuro-odd output system ensures the transformation of transfer characteristics, and second, ensures its stability in a given range of weight coefficient characteristics.Conclusion: The architecture of an adaptive neuro-fuzzy output system based on a linear method of area ratio is described. A distinctive feature of the proposed architecture is the use of an odd system of triangular accessory functions at inputs and outputs. Analysis of the simulation process of its training showed that it s important to ensure stability during training. It is also necessary to establish permissible values of the weight coefficient, numerical values of which in its turn affect the transformation of transfer characteristics of a neuro-fuzzy output system.

The effect of gender on language use in British novels: A sociolinguistic study

The present study investigates the effect of the social variable, such as gender on language use in British novels. Precisely, it attempts to achieve the following aims: (1) Identifying the influence of the social variable, like gender on the linguistic choices of language used in British novels; (2) Finding out the differences and similarities in the use of transitivity's process types in the language of the novels by the British male and female narrators; (3) comparing the language use between the two selected samples in the light of the micro and macro linguistic strategies. To achieve the aims of this study, it is hypothesized that: (1) Gender affects the linguistic choices in language of the British novels; (2) Generally, there are apparent differences and similarities between the two selected data in using some linguistic choices like material, mental, attributive-relational, and identifying-relational processes; (3) The British female narration tends to use the psychological processes more than the male one. After all tasks of data collection were accomplished, the first step in analyzing the collected data began with analyzing the language of the two British novels which the researcher dealt with in this study using three analytical models through which the eclectic model was designed so as to achieve the objectives of the current study. For the purpose of analysis, two British novels were analyzed at micro and macro levels. At micro-level, lexical features based on Halliday's (2004) model, and grammatical features based on Quirk's (1985) framework, were analyzed. This was followed by the analysis of micro-level (superstructure) based on Labov's (1972) model.

Building an Agroecological Process towards Agricultural Sustainability: A Case Study from Southern Spain

The urgent need to implement agricultural systems that provide greater sustainability and resilience to the challenges of the climate change process has meant that alternative paradigms for agri-food systems and agriculture have become more relevant in recent times. In this study, we present the building process and consolidation of an agro-ecological project (Extiercol) in a rural area of southern Spain, with a prolonged depopulation process and close connections to nearby urban areas. Through participatory action research, the specific objectives of this study are (1) to describe the agroecological collective process from its creation by a youth association to its establishment as a viable agricultural project; (2) to identify the drivers for the development of this type of transition process towards agricultural sustainability and (3) to analyse urban-rural alliances in the establishment of agroecological projects. Finally, the replicability of this project was assessed, with a special focus on the main barriers to be addressed in order to implement this agricultural system such as difficult to land access or a negative perception of sustainable management by farmers. Through this study we have shown how the connection between the food production area and nearby urban areas can be achieved through an agroecological project.

Bidding Farewell to a Lover: A Transitivity Analysis of a Tribute by Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings

This paper is a transitivity analysis of the tribute to the Late Former President of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings by his widow, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. To do this, the study sets out two main objectives which were to identify the transitivity processes employed by the widow in the tribute and discover the participants and circumstances used and their functions. The study used the documentation method to collect the data, which were downloaded from the internet. In analyzing the data, the researchers used the following steps: first, watching the video and transcribing it into a written text. Second, reading the text. Third, segmenting the data in the form of clauses. Fourth, identifying the types of processes, participants, and circumstances. Fifth, classifying the clauses into the categories of transitivity process types and their functions. Finally, concluding the field of discourse of the text. The paper discovered that the writer, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings used all the six transitivity processes: material, mental, behavioral, existential, verbal, and relational in her tribute to her late husband, the former president of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. Out of the 118 clauses identified in the text, the most used transitivity process was behavioral with the frequency of 45 representing a percentage of 38 of all the processes employed. The behaver is the highest used participant with a frequency of 32 representing 28% of the total number of participants used in the tribute. Matter as a circumstance was used 42 times representing 38% of the total circumstances Nana Konadu used in the tribute. The process types, the participants and the circumstances were used to successfully project and present the message of the tribute.

Evolution of Water Conveyance Capacity through Hydraulic Transition Processes in Circular Drop Manholes

Circular drop manholes are widely implemented for steep catchments in urban drainage networks. Poor downstream hydraulic transition processes of a manhole system, i.e., the formation of hydraulic jump near the outlet entrance, and the sudden transition from free surface to pressurized flow with bursts of air in the outflow pipe can severely constraint the capacity of water conveyance. In this paper, we defined four basic hydraulic stages that indicate where hydraulic transition processes begin and end. The measurements of typical manhole models with different drop heights were conducted under different inflow and outflow conditions. Three types of transition processes covering all flow patterns have resulted into a graphical visualization by analyzing two pairs of dimensionless parameters. The flow inside a circular drop manhole was considered to reach its discharge capacity when the abrupt drop of manhole water level is visible in the fully aerated flow pattern. Four empirical equations revealing the water level filling ratio and discharge efficiency at different hydraulic stages were also presented for further predictions of choking risks.

The Indigenous Poetry of Resistance by the Colombian Poet Fredy Chikangana: A Transitivity Systemic Analysis

The emergence of Indigenous poetry to the public domain has represented a milestone in their struggle to voice their communities' past and present experiences despite the ongoing ostracizing discourses from societies as the ones residing in Indo-America. In this sense, the present paper will offer an analysis of selected poetry by the Colombian indigenous poet Fredy Chikangana in the light of the transitivity system informed by the Systemic Functional Linguistics theory to unveil their experiential meaning construal. To attain this goal, a descriptive quantitative and qualitative research method approach was applied through which the different process types, participants, and circumstances arising from the corpus were systematically identified, calculated, and analyzed. Findings indicated that among the six transitivity process types, the material processes (47%) dominated his poems, followed by the relational realizations (27%) whereas the verbal, behavioral, existential, and mental processes were relatively low altogether, representing an overall occurrence of 26%. This reveals that the author’s primary goal was to employ poetry as an agentive act of resistance that originated from the context of the situation in which his Yanakuna community has been and is immersed.

AN ANALYSIS OF EFL STUDENTS’ TRANSITIVITY PROCESS OF WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

This paper focuses on the analysis of transitivity process contained in EFL students‟ writing recount text and dominant type of transitivity process in EFL students‟ writing recount text. Descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze the Transitivity Process of EFL students‟ writing recount text consisting of collecting data, classifying data, analyzing, and interpreting data. The document of this study is six EFL students‟ writing recount texts and there are 173 data consisting of clauses taken from the text. The finding reveals that there are six types of transitivity process contained in EFL students‟ recount text: material process, mental process, relational process, behavioral process, existential process and verbal process. Material process becomes the first mostly applied with the total number of occurrence 108 (62.43%) from overall data. Mental process becomes the second mostly applied with the total number of occurrence 26 (15.03%) from overall data. Relational process becomes the third mostly applied with the total number of occurrence 21 (12.14%) from overall data. Existential process is applied with the total number of occurrence 12 (6.94%) from overall data. Verbal Process is applied with the total number of occurrence 5 (2.88%) from all data; and the last, behavioral process is applied with the total number of occurrence 1 (0.58%) from overall data. Material Process is the dominant transitivity process types in all the EFL students‟ recount text with the total number of occurrence 108. Based on the findings, it is recommended that, Transitivity process should be applied in the educational field, for example, in the learning writing process, to help students in improving their achievement and their knowledge of in transitivity process. Keywords: Recount text, Transitivity process

Representations of Christmastide in Latin American Christmas Folk Songs: A Transitivity Analysis

Considered as the universal language, music has been historically a means of communication and personal expression about the inner and outer world of its creator, it is present in almost every social activity of human beings as in the habitual religious celebration of Christmas across the largely Catholic countries. Therefore, the present paper will provide a descriptive text analysis of ten traditional Latin American Christmas folk songs on the base of the transitivity system informed by the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. To reach this goal, both a quantitative and qualitative research method approach was applied. Findings indicated that among the six analyzed transitivity process types, the material processes (32%) dominate the construal of the musical pieces, followed by the mental (23%), behavioral (18%), and relational realizations (13%) whereas the verbal and existential processes are relatively low all together representing an overall frequency of 14%. This reveals the singers’ attempt to represent the Christmas season as a nostalgic time leap, an immediate enjoyment, and a rewarding exchange.

Transitivity Analysis of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

The present document will offer an analysis of the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture delivered by the former Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, from the fundaments of the transitivity system provided by the Systemic Functional Grammar theory. To attain this goal, a quantitative and qualitative research method approach was applied. Findings indicated that among the six transitivity process types, the material processes (54% - 205 realizations) dominate the speech whereas the verbal, existential, and behavioral processes are relatively low all together representing an overall occurrence of 10% (41 realizations). This reveals that the speaker’s main goal is to emphasize the actions that led to consolidating the Colombian peace process, placing him as the core actor of this achievement. Furthermore, by employing a narrative thread that connects the past, the present, and the future time, he can demonstrate to the world his capability as a governor who deserves to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Transitivity Process in Frozen Movie: A Study of Systemic Functional Grammar

This study aims to discover the transitivity process types in Frozen movie and to discover the dominant types of process used in Frozen movie. This study is conducted by using qualitative descriptive method and using the content analysis approach. The data is classified as documentation since the data were written document which using the transcript of the film. The film was the cartoon movie genre entitled Frozen that was released in 2013. The transcript was downloaded from https://www.raindance.org/scripts/Frozen.pdf. The theory used in this study was the theory proposed by Martin, Matthiessen, and Painter, 1997. In analyzing the data, Gay, Mills, and Airasian, (2012) method was used to analyze the data. As a result of analysis, it was found that the types of transitivity process were available in Frozen movie. Transitivity processes types that were found in this movie were material process, mental process, relational process, verbal process, behavioural process and existential process. Moreover, there are 149 clauses that indicated material process, 148 clauses that indicated mental process, 68 clauses that indicated relational process, 22 clauses that indicated verbal process, 53 clauses that indicated behavioural process, 9 clauses that indicated existential process that was found Frozen movie. Thus, it can be assumed that the dominant types of process found in Frozen movie was material process, the second is mental process, the third is relational process, the fourth is behavioural process, the fifth is verbal process and the last is existential process.

Transitivity Processes in President Buhari’s ‘My Covenant With Nigerians’

Politics and politicking in Nigeria has assumed a considerably new dimension. Actors articulate their ideology and programmes, and construct their subjects and experiences in diverse linguistic processes with a view to achieving political victory. This paper examines clause structures of President Buhari’s My Covenant with Nigerians to reveal the transitivity processes employed by the President in this famous campaign speech in 2015 presidential election. This study utilized Transitivity Processes, which is rooted in Halliday’s (1985) Systemic Functional Grammar, in order to uncover different process types and main participants in the speech, and to explain the functions which these processes perform in the speech in helping the speaker to convey his ideology to Nigerians and convince them to rally support for him. Specifically, objective of this study is the uncover transitivity process types in the speech, their frequency, function and ideological underpinnings. The study reveals that President Muhammadu Buhari utilized mental and verbal processes perception, affection, cognition and volition, and verbal process of saying to appeal to the masses, and to commit himself to serve Nigerians. He equally used material and relational processes to encode his ideology, persuade the people and achieve political victory.

Neutron diffractometer for real-time studies of transient processes at the IBR-2 pulsed reactor

A specialized diffractometer intended for use in studying real-time transient processes in condensed media, which also allows the recording of Bragg diffraction and small-angle neutron scattering spectra, has been created at the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Frequently, only the given formulation of the experiment with the continuous recording of information on the process enables us to obtain data required for the correct interpretation of events. One of the crucial parameters of such experiments is the minimal time interval in which sufficient statistics can be acquired. The diffractometer parameters make it possible to measure diffraction and small-angle spectra within minute and even second (for certain types of transition processes) ranges. The possibilities of neutron scattering are discussed as applied to the study of transient processes, the diffractometer design is described, and its main characteristics and the test experiment results are presented.

Hard-scattering approach to strongly hindered magnetic-dipole transitions in quarkonium

For a class of hindered magnetic dipole ($M1$) transition processes, such as $\Upsilon(3S)\to \eta_b+\gamma$ (the discovery channel of the $\eta_b$ meson), the emitted photon is rather energetic so that the traditional approaches based on multipole expansion may be invalidated. We propose that a "hard-scattering" picture, somewhat analogous to the pion electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer, may be more plausible to describe such types of transition processes. We work out a simple factorization formula at lowest order in the strong coupling constant, which involves convolution of the Schr\"odinger wave functions of quarkonia with a perturbatively calculable part induced by exchange of one semihard gluon between quark and antiquark. This formula, without any freely adjustable parameters, is found to agree with the measured rate of $\Upsilon(3S)\to \eta_b+\gamma$ rather well, and can also reasonably account for other recently measured hindered $M1$ transition rates. The branching fractions of $\Upsilon(4S)\to \eta_b^{(\prime)}+\gamma$ are also predicted.

Modeling of unsteady filtration gas combustion

Unsteady filtration gas combustion with various gas flow parameters is studied by mathematical modeling. Transition processes due to a sudden change in the calorific value of the gas mixture, gas flow velocity, and flow direction are considered. Trends and mechanisms of change in the structure of the filtration gas combustion wave and its propagation velocity are analyzed for various types of transition processes. It is found that with a sudden change in gas flow parameters, the flame can abruptly move large distances in the porous medium. Subsequently, at the new flame localization, a wave of filtration gas combustion forms which corresponds to the changed parameters of the gas flow. If in the porous medium, the amount of heat is insufficient, the transition process ends with quenching. As the gas flow direction changes, the combustion wave continues to propagate in the former direction for some time, which can lead to the spread of the high-temperature zone in devices based on the reverse process with a homogeneous gas-phase reaction.

Higher Education‐to‐work Transitions in the Knowledge Society: The Initial Transition and Positional Competition Point of View

This article presents an analysis of the higher education‐to‐work transition from the perspective of the competition for job positions between students and degree holders. The conceptual framework used addresses two factors influencing the success of policies that aim to support higher education‐to‐work transition of youth in a knowledge society: (i) the extent to which the relationship between the type of transition process and the type of personal capital is self‐reinforcing or compensatory; (ii) the nature and intensity of competition for jobs between students in higher education and degree holders. The article discusses limitations of policies aiming to enhance the turnover of students and to support the employability of disadvantaged students.