Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 linguistics_Azad university _zanjan branch _Iran
2 Department if Linguistics, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
3 Linguistics Department, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of English, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
Abstract
Evaluating political speeches and analyzing their content is very important. The aim of this research is the linguistic analysis of the text of Trump's speech from the point of view of the types of process (verb) based on the experiential metafunction framework of the systematic functional grammar instruction of Halliday and Matthiessen(2004). The present is of descriptive-analytical type. In this way, the text of Trump's speech is presented in the form of six material, mental, relational, verbal,and existential processes, classification and model of the processes. The obtained results show that out of a total of 212 observation processes material process has the highest frequency with (62.7%) of the incidents, which is completely in line with the content of Trump's speech and his harsh words. It highlights Iran's efforts to develop ballistic missiles. It also refers to the sanctions and actions it will take against Iran by using the material process. , relational (13/3%), verbal (10.3%), mental (7%), existential (7.5%) and behavioral (1%).
Keywords
- Behavioral metafunction
- existential process
- experiential metafunction
- material process
- mental process
- relational process
- verbal process
- sociolinguistics
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