The Analysis of Transitivity in some Discourses in the Bali Times

This study is related to the types of processes and the roles of participants in each process found in Bali Times News. Hence, this study aims to find out the types of process derived from the transitivity analysis on the texts and to find out roles of the participant on that transitivity analysis on the texts. The data of this study were collected by reading newspaper and identifying the sentences relating to the problems. Then, the data were analyzed based on theory of transitivity by Halliday of Functional Grammar (1985). The data which are collected through library research method is analyzed by using descriptive method. Based on the analysis, it was found that five types of process found in data sources, they are (1) material process, (2) mental process, (3) relational process, (4) verbal process, (5) existential process. The roles of participants in material process are actor, goal, range, and recipient. The roles of participants found in mental process are senser and phenomenon. The participants of relational process as intensive process are carrier and attribute, identified (token) and identifier (value). The participants of relational process as circumstantial are carrier and attribute. The participants of relational process as possessive are carrier and attribute. The participants of verbal process are sayer and verbiage, and the participant of existential process is existent.