Abstract: Abstract:
As a component of Systemic Functional Linguistics, the Cardiff Model differs from the Sydney Model in the way it describes the transitivity system. This paper aims to reveal how Participant Roles are identified and how a Process is realized through the Cardiff Model, which lays an emphasis on function and meaning. The examples for analysis, which are selected from news reports on recent disasters, also serve as an explicit demonstration of how Participant Roles can get affected while involved in certain disastrous Processes, and how disastrous scenes can be recreated through news reports.

Key words:  systemic functional grammar, the Cardiff Model, process, participant roles