Transitivity and Social Context in Balinese Folklores: A Systemic Functional Perspective

Mesatua “storytelling” is a tradition that usually done by parents or grandparents in Bali. Storytelling uses Balinese folklore, which rich moral value. It an effort to preserve the language and culture develop cultural values. This study aims determine folklore’s transitivity social context applying systemic functional analysis theory. The result of showed elements consist process, participant, circumstances. situational consists field discourse, tenor mode discourse. involves mesatua traditions, level used text, religious symbolic meaning.