this paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in malaysia as construed in public discourse in english, a language of power in malaysia. the term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of malaysia, the english-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of research articles in different languages and fields abound. This paper compares Applied Linguistics  research article abstracts published in Oxford University and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in English using Swales’s (1981-1990) move structure model and Halliday’s (1994) description of transitivity process...

The counterfactual tradition to defining actual causation has come a long way since Lewis started it off. However there are still important open problems that need to be solved. One of them is the (in)transitivity of causation. Endorsing transitivity was a major source of trouble for the approach taken by Lewis, which is why currently most approaches reject it. But transitivity has never lost i...

Trust can be used to improve online automated recommendation within a given domain. Trust transitivity is used to make it successful. But trust transitivity has different interpretations. Trust and trust transitivity; both are the human mental phenomenon and for this reason, there is no such thing as objective transitivity. Trust transitivity and trust fusion both are important elements in comp...

The paper investigates the application of Halliday’s theory of transitivity in the construction of personality. The essay aims to identify and explain how the main character’s personality is portrayed and represented through language used in Hoa Pham’s “Heroic Mother”. The findings hope to prove that linguistic choices in transitivity play an important role in building up the main character of ...

In cluster analysis context is of major interest to induce an order that allow us to compare the groups generated by cluster analysis itself. Using the sample similarities obtained in this analysis like possibilities in fuzzy sets context provide us to induce a transitivity property in cluster analysis, producing a similarities matrix that meets to the transitivity conditions and that resembles...