News is closely related with people’s lives and has the function of describing facts and conveying messages to the pub⁃lic. News is required to be true, swift and accurate and has formed its own language system. Based on the experiential function theory of functional grammar and its main device—transitivity, this thesis analyzes the transitivity processes in the two disaster news samples and two celebrity news samples from New York Times. It will further prove the applicability and operability of transi⁃tivity theory in news analysis.
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