The System Of Transitivity

Matthiessen (1995: 89):

In the clause, the experiential resource is that of TRANSITIVITY — the system for construing the world of goings-on as configurations of processes, participants and circumstances.

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To be clear, in the view of meaning as immanent, which informs SFL Theory, the 'world of goings-on' is meaning construed of experience. The system of TRANSITIVITY is the organisation of this meaning into configurations of processes, participants and circumstances.