A Corpus-based Transitivity Analysis of President El-Sisi’s Political Speeches | ||||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Volume 34, Issue 135.1, October 2023, Page 3-28 PDF (908.88 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2023.217303.2035 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
رحاب حسن محمود السيد 
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| قسم اللغات كلية اللغة والاعلام الأكاديمية العربية للعلوم والتكنولوجيا والنقل البحرى الاسكندرية مصر | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| There have recently been significant developments in political discourse research; yet, there are few studies on Arabic political discourse which requires more attention, particularly in the last decade. The present study employs a corpus-based approach in presenting a linguistic analysis of President El-Sisi’s political speeches in 2022. It aims to explore an argumentation strategy beyong the linguistic form of discourse in order to offer a better linguistic understanding of the manipulative use of language in President El-Sisi’s political speeches. The paper employs Halliday’s Transitivity Theory, which is an essential tool of Systemic Functional Linguistics for investigating the ideational meta-function of language and focusing on the lexico-grammatical significance of texts. The data were obtained from the official website of the Egyptian presidency and consisted of 45 speeches during 2022. A mixed quantitative and qualitative method was employed for the analysis. The Transitivity analysis as well as the frequency of a number of lexical items were investigated by using two software programmes; that is, UAM (2023) and AntConc (2022), which help identify the different types of processes which are frequently used and distributed in the speeches. Results demonstrate a preponderant use of the material process, which not only contributes to the speaker’s construction of meaning, but also presents actions and events in the physical world. Other process types such as mental, verbal and relational processes are minimally used and distributed in order to establish relationships between actions and participants. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Corpus Linguistics; Political Discourse; President El-Sisi; Systemic Functional Linguistics; Transitivity | ||||
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