Transitivity Analysis of the Taliban in the Guardian Newspaper: Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

The paper shows that many critical linguists rely on Halliday's systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach in their analysis. Thus, the paper applies the Transivity model to the Guardian newspaper from the UK. The paper aims to reveal the types of processes and participants used to represent the Taliban's image before and after 2001. It also aims to reveal the ideology of the Guardian newspaper. To achieve these aims, six processes in the Transivity model are applied within the Guardian newspaper. The paper concludes that it is not all the processes appear within the Guardian newspaper: The material and verbal processes are mainly used. In contrast, other types are rarely used.