TITLE:
Exploring the Organizing Patterns of Doings of the Material Process in Tamil: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach
AUTHORS:
Markandan Rubavathanan
KEYWORDS:
Doing Process, Material Process, Transitivity, Experiential Function, Tamil
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.6,
June
23,
2021
ABSTRACT: The study endeavours to explore the organizing patterns of doings of the
material process in Tamil. For that, this research accounts a brief description
of the lexicogrammatical resources of DOING PROCESS TYPE of Tamil which is
potentially concerned with modelling the representing patterns of experiential
meanings realised through the transitive model of the TRANSITIVITY SYSTEM. The
principal objective of this paper is to describe the resources in Tamil by
approaching Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. By underlying this theory,
researcher is able to identify, understand and explain the organisation of
doings of the material process of Tamil in asking questions about how language is configured for use
and how that configuration is representing, creating and exchanging meaning in
a social setting. In terms of the description, a number of different texts are collected from spoken and written discourses in
Tamil. This corpus-based and theory-based research is comprehensive and
accompanied by the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Such approach
achieved through the exploration will be presented in detail as the domain of doing process type by means of the
system network. This study provides both Tamil speaking community and systemic
functional linguists with insights into the basic organizations and variations
of doing process type of Tamil in order to use in their different language
applications and implementations.