A Systemic-Functional Analysis of Religious Texts with Reference to the Epistle of 'James' | ||
| Journal of The Thi Qar Arts | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 7, September 2012, Pages 1-20 | ||
| Authors | ||
| eima Al-Ebadi; Asst. Lecturer Hani Kamil N | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In terms of transitivity, the analyzed data consist of three processes: 'MPs, RPs and MnPs'. MPs amount (56.81%), RPs amount (27.27%), MnPs amount (13.63%) and VPs amount (2.27%). Participants involve ten roles: the actor amounts (18.84%), the goal amounts (27.53%) the carrier and the attribute amount (16.22%) each, the token and the value amount (17.38%) for each, the senser amounts (7.24%), the phenomenon amounts (10.14%), and the sayer and the verbiage amount (1.44%) for each. Circumstances have been distributed on types of processes. In MPs, circumstances amount (70.588%), in RPs, they amounts (23.529%) and in MnPs they amount (5.882%). It has been concluded that James makes full use of the components of transitivity including 'process type, participants and circumstances' to express his IM. Statistically, it has been concluded that James depends mainly on certain process types in conveying his IM, 'MPs, RPs and MnPs' respectively. Besides, it has been observed that MP and RPs play a significant role in conveying the IM of the Biblical Chapter. The high use of MPs reflects James' focus on doing actions in an attempt to activate believers. In addition, it has been noticed that James uses RPs which come second to describe or to identify relationships among important ideas. In addition, MnPs which rank third are used to address the inner feeling of the addressees. In addition, participants and circumstances play a complementary role in conveying the IM. For their importance in the IM, the participants have been used highly to clarify the entities involved in the process types. On the other hand, circumstances have been used enormously so as to give adequate background about the situations in which process types take place. Accordingly, these conclusions validate the proposed hypothesis. | ||
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