Participants

1.Human participants are people who take part in a social activity. In

discourse analysis research that could involve acting as a subject for
example, interview participants are the people who are reviewed by a
researcher.
2.In grammatical theory, participants are components of a clause. In English
clauses, for instance, there are three components: the participants, the
process and the circumstances.
[Sasha] [arrived] [yesterday afternoon]
In the example above, Sasha is the participant in the clause, arrived is the
process and yesterday afternoon describes the circumstances in which the
process takes place.
The participants in a clause are used to represent participants in real life, but this
does not necessarily mean that language users always represent every
participant in an explicit or equal way. Some participants may be represented as
active
while others could be passive or excluded (see PASSIVE AGENT DELETION).