Ecolinguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL): Transitivity in ' Climate Change in Egypt' by Ali Masria

Abstract

This paper presents Ecolinguistics as a relatively new branch of linguistics concerned with the interaction between human being and nature; how they influence each other. It handles systemic functional linguistics, usually referred to as (SFL) presented by M K Halliday, a new approach to grammar and to Ecolinguistics as well. Transitivity, as an important aspect of SFL, is applied to an article about climate change in Egypt. The six processes, participants and circumstances are analyzed as important parts of transitivity in this article.

Keywords

• ecolinguistics
• ecology
• sfl
• e e
• transitivity
• process
• participant
• circumstance
• goal and actor