The song strongly emphasizes the equality notion by accepting who we are as we are all born this way. By then, this song has completely succeeded to not only raising up feminist voice, but also, most likely, if there was no song with all the impact and events, understanding about gender and equality would not develop as it is today. It was found that the song aims to speak to as many perspectives as possible, through different races, sexualities, and gender expressions, through the language uses that are represented in the song.

The source of the data was the song Born This Way by Lady Gaga and the data were the linguistics aspects of the song, which are the words, phrases, clauses and sentences, as well as the discourse unit of the song. This study employed qualitative content analysis. This study is intended to find out the exact meaning of the lyrics at different levels of language, and phonetic devices, as well as to reveal how these stylistic devices work on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (LGBTQA+). Key Words: Transitivity choices, Feminist Stylistics, Women, Men, Ali, The Book of Saladin (TBOS) The current study confirms Mills (1995) claim that transitivity model is best suited to understand the depiction of gender through linguistic choices. These findings indicate that Ali (1998) has represented his women characters more active as compared to his men characters as far as romantic scenes are concerned. The women characters are portrayed mainly through Material (41%), Relational (5%) and Behavioral (5%) processes while the men characters are ascribed with more mental (9%) and verbal (4%) processes. The findings indicate that Ali (1998) in TBOS makes a use of all types of processes but with different frequency of occurrences. A sample size of 107 clauses was drawn to focus on process-participant analysis.

The data comprises 6 extracts from the novel. To strengthen the analysis, Eggins’ (2004) insights are also given consideration. Halliday’s (1985) transitivity model as suggested by Mills (1995) in her Feminist Stylistics has been employed for data analysis. The present study is aimed to explore how women and men characters are constructed through linguistic choices in Ali’s novel The Book of Saladin (TBOS).

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