TRANSITIVITY SYSTEM USED BY SARA CREWE, THE MAIN CHARACTER IN A LITTLE PRINCESS NOVEL

This study aims at the aplication of Halliday’s theory of transitivity model of text and to identifyhow the main character’s personality was portrayed through language used in France Burnett’s novel “A Little Princess”. The study was conducted to describe Process types, Participants function and Circumstatial Elements of Transitivity Analysis that used in A Little Princess novel. The study applied descriptive qualitaive method. The data were in the form of 110 clause of the utterance the main character. The findings showed that there were 6 types of processes, 14 participants and 6 circumstances that can be found in the dialogues of Sara Crewe in A Little Princess Novel. The dominat type of the process was Relational Process (31,82%), the dominat type of the Participant Functions was Actor (14,11%) and the dominant type of the Circumstances Element was Place-Location (41,02%).The findings showed that the linguistic in transitivity was important role to building up the main character of the story.