Examining the Processes of Experiential Metafunction from the Perspective of Halliday and Matthiessen's Approach in Trump's Speech

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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%).

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Persian
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume:6 Issue: 2, 2023
Pages:
47 to 57
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  • Rahbar، Behzad
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    Rahbar, Behzad
    Associate Professor Department of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba'i University, تهران, Iran
  • Bazyar، Mehdi
    Author (4)
    Bazyar, Mehdi
    Assistant Professor Teaching English, Department of English Language, Faculty of Management, Accounting, and English, Ghazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, قزوین, Iran
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