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Abstract
This study examines the ideational and textual metafunctions of language in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by analyzing the thematic structure and transitivity system of selected clauses. Various kinds and tasks of Theme are investigated as a component of textual metafunction, and the transitivity element is checked as a main ingredient of ideational metafunction in terms of processes, participants and circumstances to grasp the ideology and embedded meanings beyond these chosen constituents with their implications. To achieve these tasks, this study adopts Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). Accordingly, this study is designed to answer the following research questions: 1. How does applying Halliday’s Systemic Functional Theory (SFT) help to explore hidden meanings behind utterances through analyzing the textual metafunction in terms of thematic structure of clauses?, 2. How does analyzing the ideational metafunction in terms of transitivity system of clauses using Halliday’s SFG reveal the way action is performed and implied in Frankenstein?, 3. How can analyzing the transitivity system and thematic structure of clauses show particular meanings and ideology which ordinary readers may not notice or get? and 4. How do the characters of Frankenstein deliberately use certain linguistic choices to convey their intended messages to the readers? The results of the study show that thematic analysis depicts how sentences initiate (Theme) and generate some new meanings in addition to illuminating that transitivity analysis clarifies how action is carried out (transitivity) drawing attention to the conveyance of Shelley’s notions and ideology in addition to shedding light on the relationship between the clause structure and the external world and the situational context.
Key words: Frankenstein – Textual – Ideational – Theme – Transitivity – Implications – Systemic Functional Theory – Systemic Functional Grammar