Transitivity is regarded as an effective methodology for analyzing literary works. This paper based on M. A. K. Halliday's transitivity system, analyzed two different texts describing the West Lake. One is from the wikipedia, the other is a tourist material from the website named AT-China. This paper demonstrates that for one thing, transitivity system can be used in analyzing relations between implicit or not obvious conflicting parties. For another, transitivity system manifests that there are some different stylistic features in texts of different styles, such as different participants, material processes, sentence patterns, literariness, etc.
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