THE TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF JUSTIN CHADWICK’S THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

This research is aimed to find what processes are there in a text, what participants participating, and what circumstances involved using transitivity analysis in functional grammar approach. The researcher reaches this aim by analyzing a movie script in Justin Chadwick’s The Other Boleyn Girl. This research is stated as descriptive qualitative research. The researcher will focus on understanding about transitivity in The Other BoleynGirl movie script. Main data for this research is a movie script. Those clauses are taken from a movie script entitled The Other Boleyn Girl as the source of the data. The researcher takes the steps of watching movie, downloading movie script, dividing clauses, analyzing clause and explaining how the process occurs. The result of the research shows that there are six processes occurred in The Other Boleyn girl movie script. They are material, mental, behavioral, verbal, relational and existential process. The participants which accompany the processes are all found; actor, goal, recipient, senser, phenomenon, behaver, sayer, verbiage, receiver, carrier, attribute, token, value, and existent. The circumstances which appear in those clauses are circumstance of time, circumstance of place, circumstance of accompaniment, circumstance of cause behalf, circumstance of manner quality, and circumstance of matter.The researcher hopes that the students, especially English students in university, can gain the better knowledge from many sources whether they are textbooks, authentic materials or research writings because functional grammar has been one of the subjects to learn in the university.

Keywords: Transitivity analysis, movie script, The Other Boleyn Girl