Transitivity analysis in Malala's speeches: a critical discourse analysis

This thesis investigates the new grammar perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics theory focusing on the transitivity system to reveal the ideological construction in Malala speeches. There are two speeches chosen by the researcher; those are “College tour- Malala in Birmingham,” and “Malala and Ziauddin in conversation.” In the analysis process, the writer applies Fairclough’s framework for CDA, which consists of three stages of the analysis process; those are description, interpretation, and explanation. The transitivity system that used to serve the linguistics feature of the speeches briefly includes in the description stage. The transitivity system contains six types of the process; those are material, mental, relational, behavioral, verbal, and existential. By using the descriptive qualitative method, the researcher has been successful in revealing the ideology in Malala’s speeches. The researcher takes a role as a key- human instrument since she is the one who collects, identifies, classifies, and analyzes the data as the procedures of data analysis. As a result, the researcher found 1163 clauses that contain the transitivity process. The material process is the most dominant process experienced by Malala. It reached 35%. Then, the mental process gains 24%, relational process 24%, verbal process 10%, existential process 4%, and behavioral process 3%. Through the transitivity analysis process that produces the textual analysis, it can be proved that Malala tends to construct feminism ideology in favor of liberal. In this case, Malala maintains her action in fighting for women’s rights to get their rights as well.