The Transitivity System and Thematic Meaning: A Feminist-stylistics Approach to Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

By employing Sara Mill's feminist-stylistics approach, this paper explores the thematic relationship between transitivity system and the male-dominance theme of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. By analyzing the transitivity choice, we find that material process dominates over other...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Theory and practice in language studies 2015-06, Vol.5 (6), p.1200
Main Authors: Kang, Chuanmei, Wu, Xianyou
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
Decision making
English literature
Females
Feminism
Gender
Gender Differences
Gender Discrimination
Intention
Lawrence, D H (1885-1930)
Males
Nouns
Novels
Personality
Portrayals
Rape
Stylistics
Theme
Valence
Verbs
Women
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:By employing Sara Mill's feminist-stylistics approach, this paper explores the thematic relationship between transitivity system and the male-dominance theme of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. By analyzing the transitivity choice, we find that material process dominates over other verb processes and in most cases Mellors, the hero, serves as an active dominating role in their daily life, particularly in their sexual love, and Connie, the heroine, always takes a passive obedient role in an episode of their love affair. This paper shows that Lawrence holds a chauvinistic idea towards women and male dominance is easily seen all over his novel. Index Terms--Lady Chatterley's Lover, feminist-stylistics approach, male dominance, sexual relationship
ISSN:1799-2591
2053-0692
DOI:10.17507/tpls.0506.11