Authors
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University of Anbar - College of Education for Humanities
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English dept. Education
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Document Type : Research Paper
Abstract
The aim of the current study is to investigate the discoursal function of transitivity in the speeches of Obama and Biden. Also, it is to reveal the functions of transitivity represented by two victory speeches of Obama and Biden. These issues were presented through transitivity processes. To this end, The Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics SFL (2014) was adopted as a theoretical framework to study language structure and function. Major findings reveal that the six processes were used in which, material and relational processes were ranked in the first places in both speeches.
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