Process And Circumstance In The Movie Of 12 Years A Slave

Abstract

This study investigates the application of Halliday‘s theory of transitivity model of text used by Solomon Northup, the main character, in 12 Years a Slave movie. The study was conducted to describe the types of process and circumstance used in 12 Years a Slave movie. The study applied descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from the clauses which are used by Solomon Northup. The findings showed that there were 5 types of process and 8 types of circumstance that can be found in the dialogues of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave movie. The dominant type of process was Relational process (41.55%) and the dominant type of Circumstance was Manner (34.43 %). And the last Relational process and Manner appear most because the story tells about slavery who can not speak and write with complex words.