Transitivity Analysis of Kamila Shamsie's Salt and Saffron: A Stylistic Analysis

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of Kamila Shamsie's novel Salt and Saffron (2001) through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) with special reference to ideational metafunction. The data have been taken from the text of novel for textual analysis. This analysis reveals that all six processes of Halliday’s transitivity analysis are applicable on the selected text. By analyzing 22 clauses from the first chapter, this study explores that how different process types (material, mental, relational, behavioral, verbal, and existential) contribute to the construction of meaning in the narrative. The findings demonstrate the ways in which characters, actions, and events are linguistically represented by providing deeper insights into the ideational meanings of the text.