الملخص الإنجليزي
Abstract:
This study uses Halliday’s transitivity approach to analyze D. H. Lawrence’s The
Rocking-Horse Winner. The purpose is to provide a linguistic analysis of the literary work
by Lawrence to see how far the linguistic approaches to literary texts conform to the literary
analyses of the same texts. The study uses a framework based on Halliday’s Systemic
Functional Grammar, in which process types are identified in the text and then used to arrive
at an interpretation of the text based on the linguistic analysis. The linguistic outcomes
correspond with the psychological interpretations of the story. In addition, the mother-son
relationship is recurrent in D. H. Lawrence’s fiction. This further supports the connection
between the linguistic and the literary interpretation of the story and shows how a linguistic
analysis may lead to one based on literary approaches.
