Transitivity Analysis of Kamala Harris’ 2020 Presidential Victory Speech Concerning COVID-19
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.002How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- COVID-19, Kamala Harris, liberalism, political speech, transitivity system
- Abstract
Language plays a vital role in political speech as it comes in a form of argument shaping and speech presenting which often contain a set of beliefs called ideology. It gets even more crucial when the speech is delivered as a presidential victory speech from developed countries such as the USA. Hence, investigation regarding presidential victory speech should be conducted. Regarding this, the present study aims to investigate the presence of political ideology in the USA 2020 vice president-elect Kamala Harris’ victory speech concerning her plans to build back the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is due to the fact that not only she is the first female vice-president elect but she is also representing the people of colour. This study employs Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) as the research method with Halliday’s transitivity system as the framework to analyse the data. The result shows that Kamala Harris implicitly demonstrates her liberalism ideology by inviting all the American people to not only focus on their own liberty but also others as well through the utilisation of Material (60%), Relational (19%), Mental (11%) and Behavioural (3%) processes in her speech. Thus, in other words, Kamala Harris plans to build back the USA by starting to enforce people’s liberty.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Alfath Eka Liani AU - Annisa Annidi AU - Yanty Wirza PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - Transitivity Analysis of Kamala Harris’ 2020 Presidential Victory Speech Concerning COVID-19 BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 7 EP - 13 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.002 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.002 ID - Liani2021 ER -