Transitivity as a Model: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Putin’s and Zelensky’s Speeches on the Russian and Ukrainian War
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https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1606.20Keywords:
CDA, CL, transitivity, Putin, ZelenskyAbstract
This work addresses an essential topic: how to turn the form of language into a communication purpose. The study examines two speeches by political figures Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. These two statements were deliberately chosen as they took place during the same time period following their respective countries' declarations of war. The speakers intended to express and imply their ideologies, plans, and goals in these two speeches. This study uses Halliday and Mathiessen's (2004) transitivity model to examine the data. It is hypothesized that the first transitivity process is the material process, followed by the second-ranking relational process, which is then followed by another tool employed by the leader to attain his or her goals, the mental process. Following the use of this model, all of these hypotheses were tested qualitatively, with figures and statistics used to clearly demonstrate the analysis.
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