Open AccessANALYSING A RIGHT-WING TEXT THROUGH HALLIDAYS TRANSTIVITY SYSTEM AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Elham Abdullah Ghobain
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of advances in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2348-3024
DOI - 10.24297/jal.v6i3.4664
Subject(s) - griffin , verb , linguistics , politics , phrase , political rhetoric , critical discourse analysis , perspective (graphical) , rhetoric , sociology , computer science , political science , history , artificial intelligence , law , philosophy , archaeology , ideology
In this paper, I attempt to present an example of following Hallidays grammatical system in analysing a text that can bear racial references. Doing so, the text analysis can be viewed from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The text chosen, titled Europe Must Close Its Borders or be Swamped by Third World, published in 2009, exhibits a typical example of the political rhetoric used by far-right political parties represented by one of its leaders in Britain, Nick Griffin. My assumption is that every word, every verb, and every phrase used is carefully chosen to convey the intended agendas of the party to its prospect voters in a clever way, which achieves its maximum effect with little or no apparent violation to the press guidelines. I also believe that such a stirring text, as far as the paper is concerned, would benefit from the use of various types of verbs and phrases that should suffice the requirement of the analysis. The paper may be of good use to students interested in studying this system of analysis as it deeply goes into the details of the used text.