Transitivity Analysis on Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Abstract

Applying transitivity on the sonnet is what this research does; it is different from other previous researches which applying transitivity on other kinds of text. This research occupies the descriptive analysis method, in order to cultivate the sonnet to find out the type of process in transitivity. After analyzing the data from three Shakespeare's sonnets, this research finally is able to posit that there are four process types of six types appearing; they are material process, mental process, relational process a nd existential process. Due to identify which type of process more often appears in these three sonnets, the researcher calculates and makes the table. This research finds that material process appeared more often than others; after that, mental process, relational process and existential process. On the other hand, the researcher as well identified some archaic words;