The results show that Eliza's change of power status has an effect on her role as a participant in clauses and processes in the play that is in accordance with Goatly's (2000) theory about participants' power hierarchy in process types. The investigation is based on the ideas suggested by Goatly (2000) who made the interesting suggestion that we may construct a hierarchy of participant power relations in a text based on their roles in different types of clauses and processes. When considering the pattern of participant representation in a text from the perspective of critical discourse analysis, it is useful to have some general sense of the types of participants, which tend to be construed grammatically as powerful and of those which are construed as less powerful or even powerless. The most important ones, which are analysed in the play Pygmalion for the analysis of power status, are the material, mental and relational processes. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is. Patrick Campbell, with whom Shaw was having a prominent affair at the time that had set all of London abuzz. Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. According to the transitivity system, verbs can be classified into six processes: material, mental, relational, verbal, behavioural and existential. Shaw wrote the part of Eliza in Pygmalion for the famous actress Mrs. This analysis is done by applying the transitivity system, which is part of English linguist Halliday's (1985 1994) systemic-functional grammar. The purpose of this study was to investigate the language of the main female character called Eliza in the play 'Pygmalion' by Bernard Shaw.
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