Abstract

Transitivity analysis helps to figure out the participants and processes involved in a sentence or in a clause. It can be applied to find out how the writers have presented the public thoughts in letters written to editors by public and how the writers made it attractive by pseudo-descriptive techniques. Our aim of this paper is to carry out transitivity analysis of letters written to editors and by doing so, proving that letters written to editors belong to a separate genre, they are not part of news paper. The language, style of these letters show that they belong to a separate genre, newspaper genre. Our significance of this research paper is to highlight how the different writers use different strategies and vocabulary and add color while showing the letters written by public in order to make their news paper attractive, eye wedged, valuable, and favorable for their readers and also they use strategies and agencies to hide their motives and biasness. The writers also hide their ideologies behind the words in such a way that the readers cannot get access to it so easily. Our focus in this research is to figure out those tactics which the writers adopt to make themselves at value position and how the writers manipulate the minds of eventual readers and provide them an explicit track due to which readers are convinced to think about the issue. Keeping in mind the CDA and SFL theory, we have used SFL to analyze how letters written to editors belong to a separate genre which is the particular aim of this study. The data has been collected from The News, The Dawn, and Daily News on the issue of peace process talks between government of Pakistan and Taliban.

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