Textual analysis in chimamanda's speech: a critical discourse analysis

This research is the collaborative study of Critical Discourse Analysis with the new grammar of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic focusing on Textual Process. The pattern of textual process it reveals the linguistic analysis as well as its ideological construction of Chimamanda’s speech in the TEDxEuston (12/04/16) which talks about feminism. The writer mainly utilizes Fairclough’s framework for CDA which consists of three stages of analysis, there are description, interpretation, and explanation. To present the linguistic analysis of the speech, the writer inserts textual process within description stage. The textual process itself applies Halliday’s systemic functional linguistic theory which proposes two types of textual process: grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. In this study, the writer applied descriptive-qualitative approach which can be useful to describe textual process to reveals the ideology by Chimamanda in her speech. The writer also as the key of human instrument. In the data collection, the writer reading all of the scripts. It is then followed by identifying, classifying and analyzing the data as the procedures of the data analysis. As the result, the most types used by Chimamanda in her speech are grammatical cohesion in the form of references and lexical cohesion in the form of repetition. Textual process reveals the ideology by Chimamanda in her speech to persuade the listeners especially women to abandoned the title of feminist in favor of post-feminism.