A Transitivity Analysis of the Selected Online News Articles from Washington Report and The New York Times in Depicting the Current Israel-Hamas Tension

Badzlin, Pinkan Nabila (2025) A Transitivity Analysis of the Selected Online News Articles from Washington Report and The New York Times in Depicting the Current Israel-Hamas Tension. S1 thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research examined the two selected online news articles of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) and The New York Times (NYT) regarding the current Israel-Hamas tension (October 7, 2023-present). By using the transitivity system analysis within systemic functional linguistics (SFL) proposed by Halliday (1994; 2004, 2014), this research aimed to identify the predominant transitivity systems used and their interpretations in the selected online news articles of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and The New York Times regarding the current Israel-Hamas tension. Descriptive qualitative and library research methods were adopted for collecting and processing the data. From the data examined, a total of 176 clauses occurred in both selected online news articles. The research findings emphasized that both news articles of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and The New York Times relied most on the material process. As for the selected online news article of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, material process occurred 28 times (41.17%) out of 68 process types. On the other hand, as for the selected online news article of The New York Times, material process occurred 71 times (65.74%) out of 108 process types. The total number of material processes that occurred in both selected online news articles is 99 times (56.25%) out of 176 process types. In addition, the designs in both selected online news articles have the same pattern, but the actors are different. The selected online news article of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs pointed out “Israel as violator, while Hamas as victim”, while the selected online news articles of The New York Times emphasized “Hamas as aggressor, while Israel as victim”.

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