Abstract
This research is the collaborative study of Critical Discourse Analysis with the new grammar perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory focusing on Transitivity System. It investigates the pattern of transitivity process that reveals the linguistic strategies as well as its ideological construction of Donald Trump’s speeches in the 45th United States presidential election. The writer mainly utilizes Fairclough’s framework for CDA which consists of three stages of analysis consisting of description, interpretation, and explanation. Under descriptive-qualitative method, this research significantly gives an understanding about how transitivity processes can be used to reveal the ideology. As the result, Donald Trump uses variety language during his speeches. It is because he applies all the types of transitivity process proposed by M.A.K. Halliday which consists of six types: material, mental, relational, behavioral, verbal, and existential. The transitivity processes eventually reveal that Donald Trump attempts to construct democracy view during his speeches.
Highlights
In recent years, the discussions of grammar have moved from sentence-based perspective to more of a discourse-based perspective
The Systemic Functional Grammar which is known as Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory (SFLT)
This study aims to explore Critical Discourse Analysis study with the new grammar perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory focusing on the transitivity processes
Summary
The discussions of grammar have moved from sentence-based perspective to more of a discourse-based perspective. The discussion of grammar from discourse-based perspective goes along with the theory of M.A.K. Halliday, the Systemic Functional Grammar which is known as Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory (SFLT). Considering SFLT as a new perspective in grammar, it has attracted many researchers to conduct the research in this field. A number of researchers have explored SFLT in various data sources, such as, news (Zhang, 2013; Viscido, 2014), advertisement (Patpong, 2008), movie script (Fikmawati, 2012; Viana, 2013; Setiawan, 2015), student’s writing (Kurdali, 2012; Nurohmah, 2013; Oliveira, 2015) and essay (Rollins, 2012). As a part of SFLT, transitivity system is applied as the concern of this research. Several researchers have focused on investigating transitivity system in some settings with different forms of analysis, for instance: in academic setting which includes student’s text book (Salsabil, 2014; Anggun, 2016; and Oriza, 2017); politic setting which news
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