The transitivity analysis of Do we still want Ahok?

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People use language to communicate with another. According to Webster (1990) language
regards as a systematic mean of communicating feelings or ideas by the use of conventionalized
signs, sounds, gestures or marks having understood meanings. Language serves in the expression
of 'content' we will describe as transactional, and that function involved in expressing social
relations and personal attitudes will describe as interactional (. Linguists and linguistic
philosophers tend to adopt an approach to the functions of language in society. While they
frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions,
they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the
communication of information.
In daily life people communicate not only in spoken form but also in written form.
Fairclough (2010) stated I use text for the language product of discursive processes whether it
be written or spoken language; a spoken text can be turned into a written text by being
transcribed. Moreover, Halliday stated a text is a semantic unit, not a grammatical one. But
meaning are realized through wording. It means that language is a system of meaning. Through
language we send our message and negotiate. For this reason, we need a model of language that
view a language as a system of meaning to analysis and interpret a text. We regard the Systemic
Functional Linguistic is the appropriate theory because it views a language as a resource for
meaning. (Halliday 2002).
Gerot and Wignell (1994:10-11) state, context of culture determines what we can mean
through being, doing and saying. Context of situation can be specified through use of field, tenor
and mode. When people hear or read a text, we can reconstruct its context of situation. The
specification of the context of situation encodes three types of meaning, ideational meaning,
textual meaning and interpersonal meaning. The types of meaning related to the topic here is
ideational meaning. The ideational metafunction engenders resources for construing our experience of
the world around us and inside us; the ideational system at clause rank is transitivity.

Transitivity is concerned with construing one particular domain of our experience in the world,
both the external world of happenings and events, and our own internal world of our thoughts and
feelings.