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Table 2 The relationships between Carrie as an Actor and parts of her body as Goals

From: Femininity and female sexual desires in “The Lang Women”: an analysis using Halliday’s theory on transitivity

 

Clauses

Actor & Goal relationship

LW20c

and she would lift her fringe

Carrie affects her fringe

LW20d

and ^she ^ would study her face without it

Carrie affects her face

LW20e

and ^she ^ would lift her hair from her ears

Carrie affects her hair

LW20g

then ^she ^ would take her hands away

Carrie affects her hands

LW20h

and ^she ^ would swing her head …

Carrie affects her head

LW21a

She would place a hand on her hip,

Carrie affects a hand

LW21b

^she ^ would dent a knee forward,

Carrie affects a knee

LW21c

^she ^ would throw her shoulders back

Carrie affects her shoulders