AMU Journal of Language and Media Discourse, Vol. 03, No 1-2, 2020-21 Page 109 ISSN : 2582-1741 ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIVITY IN THE NEWS TEXTS DISCOURSE: STORIES BEYOND THE LINES Abdul Aziz Khan Fahd Mohammed Sagheer Eid Department of Linguistics Aligarh Muslim University aaziz_khan@rediffmail.com fahdeid1982@gmail.com Abstract The language of the news, in general and newspaper articles in particular, is full of ideologies and inner experiences. The ideologies instilled in the news articles have a very strong impact on their readership and consequently direct them towards a targeted aim. The speakers and writers select their views or articles in such a way which carries their intentions and beliefs semantically and syntactically. The linguistic style adopted by them indirectly suggests their inner political stances. In order to analyze the news propaganda, we need a tool that can unearth what lies intentionally beyond the script. This tool is the transitivity system which was proposed by the famous Functional Linguist M.A.K Halliday et.al (2014). In line with Halliday, Paul Simpson (1993:82) states that transitivity: “refers generally to how meaning is represented in the clause. It shows how speakers encode in language their mental picture of reality and how they account for their experience of the world around them.” It has six types of processes which can describe meaning in the news structures from different perspectives. This transitivity can analyze both the isolated clauses and connected ones in their context. The aim of this paper is to analyze and find out political intentions concealed by the news structures in the select news articles. The types of the transitivity in Functional Realm will briefly be explained supported by the examples from the data. Keywords: transitivity system, systemic functional linguistics, ideology, news discourse. Introduction This paper focuses on semantic aspect of transitivity in the discourse of newspapers and their roles in showing what lies behind the lines of different ideologies imposed by their locutors. It investigates the representations of conflicts between the US and China over the US drone seized by the Chinese marines in the South China Sea by applying