This study investigates the ideational representation of Donald Trump in Al Jazeera English’s coverage of his victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election using the transitivity framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). Employing a qualitative descriptive approach, the study analyses three news articles published between November 2024 and January 2025. The findings reveal that Material Processes (50%) and Verbal Processes (23%) are the dominant process types. These patterns construct Trump primarily as an active political actor and a prominent communicator, while Relational Processes further reinforce his institutional legitimacy. Referential choices, including personal names, pronouns, and political titles, strengthen his representation as a personalized, normalized, and institutionally validated leader. Overall, Al Jazeera English represents Trump as agentive in action, authoritative in speech, and legitimate within formal political structures. These findings demonstrate how transitivity functions as a linguistic resource for constructing political representation in international news discourse.
This research investigates the application of ideational grammatical metaphor (IGM) and transitivity patterns within Trump’s speeches, addresses, and interviews, spanning from his 2025 inaugural address to June 2025, utilizing Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework. This study inspects how Trump emp...
Bahram Kazemian, Shafigeh Mohammadian, S. N. Qaiwer· European Journal of Educatio...· 0 citations
Purpose: This study examines the “New Lee Jae-myung” discourse, focusing on the forum titled “Discussing New Lee Jae-myung” held at the National Assembly Members’ Office Building on March 15, 2026, through the lens of Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition. It aims to explore how legitimacy is constructed within discours...
This study examines the role of language in constructing power, ideology, and participation in legislative discourse, with specific reference to Senate deliberations on Nigeria’s Tax Reform Bill (2024–2025). Anchored on Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the research inves...
Hadassah Barnabas Malle· SANGARU JOURNAL OF GENERAL S...· 0 citations
This paper examines a 90-min rally speech delivered by Trump in Michigan in 2025 to commemorate the first 100 days of his second presidency. Drawing on Lewin et al.’s leadership styles typology alongside Archer’s concept of Reality Paradigms, it adopts a discourse-analytic approach to investigate features commonly asso...
D. Archer· Frontiers in Political Scien...· 0 citations
The diplomatic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 1, 2025, serves as a critical case study of power dynamics within international relations. This research investigates the linguistic domination exerted by President Trump during the interaction, positing that...
Nasrulloh Nasrulloh, Inti Englishtina· The Global Language and Lite...· 0 citations
Despite growing scholarly interest in transitivity studies across literary genres, Victor S. Dugga’s Gidan Juju remains underexplored in terms of its linguistic structures and ideological formations. This study examines transitivity patterns in Victor S. Dugga’s Gidan Juju within the theoretical framework of Systemic F...
Philomena Msurshima Nomigo, A. Abdullahi, Attah Michael Abashi· International Journal of Art...· 0 citations
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