P-ISSN 2708-6453 Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review Oct-Dec 2023, Vol. 7, No. 4 O-ISSN 2708-6461 https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2023(7-IV)10 [115-124] RESEARCH PAPER Circumstantial Analysis of Exit West: Deconstructing Migration 1 Sundar Huma*, 2 Muhammad Murad and 3 Sana Nawaz 1. Lecturer, Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 2. MPhil, Department of English, Government College University Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 3. Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan *Corresponding Author sundarhuma55@gmail.com ABSTRACT This study explored the ideology of migration issues in Exit West. The ideology was explored by analyzing the linguistic choices. The framework applied in the study was Halliday’s model of transitivity (2014). Analysis had been done taking circumstance of Halliday’s transitivity as major stance of analysis. UAM corpus tool (3.0) had helped in annotation of text. Mixed method approach had been used for this study. Quantitative results gave the statistical information about the distribution of linguistic choices. Qualitative results explained the validity of quantitative results. The results had depicted that the major form of circumstance used in the text had been the circumstance of location (73%). Circumstance of accompaniment (10%), role (3%), contingency (>1%), matter (1.5%), manner (8%), cause (2%) and extent (>1%) used in the text revealed the issues of migration under various circumstances. The results had also shown that the causes of migration are inhumane human actions that destroy the human existence. It also explored refugee crisis as biasness against migrants. This study will contribute for future studies of literature and its analysis. It would give a deep insight to the subject of migration through linguistic choices of circumstance of location, accompaniment, manner, role, cause, matter and extent. KEYWORDS Circumstance, Exit West, Migration Issue, Over Crowdedness, Transitivity Analysis, War Introduction Text represents the societal and world experiences. These world experiences could be verbal and non- verbal. A verbal text is usually an oral text spoken by some speaker. Non- verbal text on the other hand is a written text. Text as a whole whether verbal or non- verbal contains some message. The message in a text is distributed with in clauses. (Wilson, 2012).Clauses contain meaning confined in ideational metafunction. The ideational metafunction represents an idea in its constituent forms of processes, participants and circumstances. (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). Text is a system from where the ideologies are produced and acquired. (Van Dijk, 2006). Different methodologies have been opted for the analysis of a text. In literature, textual analysis and character analysis has been done stylistically. (Cunanan, 2011). Systemic functional grammar has paved another way for analyzing a text. The structural parameter of the text was coordinated with semantic understanding of the text. (Ning, 2008). The semantic reality in a text is explored through transitivity in Systemic Functional Grammar. Three functions of a language have been explained in Systemic Functional