scholarly journals Analysis of the Queen’s Speech on COVID-19 from the Perspective of Transitivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Luo Yu
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Government ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Verbal Process ◽  
Concept Of Function ◽  
The Face ◽  
Material Process ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

The Queen Elizabeth II recently made her fifth public speech on coVID-19 since taking office. Through the use of systemic functional linguistics to analyze her speech text, this article mainly analyzes the text from the perspective of the concept of function and finds this speech text involves only four processes: material process, metal process, relational process and verbal process. This article discusses the political, economic and cultural characteristics of the UK’s response to coVID-19. In addition, this paper compares China and the UK, and discusses the different measures taken in the face of the epidemic and the underlying cultural background. This study found out that the Queen’s speech is mainly aimed at expressing gratitude to those working on the front lines of the fight against the epidemic and encouraging people to respond to the call of the British government and face the epidemic positively. The analysis of speech with the transitivity can enrich and update the study contents of transitivity.

scholarly journals Europe and/or the UK: Post-Brexit urban and regional development futures – A special issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Nick Henry ◽  
Adrian Smith
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Epochal Change ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

It was over 25 years ago that European Urban and Regional Studies was launched at a time of epochal change in the composition of the political, economic and social map of Europe. Brexit has been described as an epochal moment – and at such a moment, European Urban and Regional Studies felt it should offer the space for short commentaries on Brexit and its impact on the relationships of place, space and scale across the cultural, economic, social and political maps of the ‘new Europes’. Seeking contributions drawing on the theories, processes and patterns of urban and regional development, the following provides 10 contributions on Europe, the UK and/or their relational geographies in a post-Brexit world. What the drawn-out and highly contested process of Brexit has done for the populace, residents and ex-pats of the UK is to reveal the inordinate ways in which our mental, everyday and legal maps of the regions, nations and places of the UK in Europe are powerful, territorially and rationally inconsistent, downright quirky at times but also intensely unequal. First, as the UK exits the Single Market, the nature of the political imagination needed to create alternatives to the construction of new borders and new divisions, even within a discourse of creating a ‘global Britain’, remains uncertain. European Urban and Regional Studies has always been a journal dedicated to the importance of pan-European scholarly integration and solidarity and we hope that it will continue to intervene in debates over what alternative imaginings to a more closed and introverted future might look like. Second, as the impacts of COVID-19 continue to change in profound ways how we think, work and travel across European space, we will need to find new forms of integration and new forms of engagament in intellectual life and policy development. European Urban and Regional Studies remains commited to forging such forms.

scholarly journals KAJIAN LINGUISTIK FUNGSIONAL SISTEMIK: ANALISIS HUBUNGAN SISTEM TRANSITIVITAS DAN KONTEKS SITUASI DALAM PIDATO PRESIDEN JOKOWI SOAL PENANGANAN VIRUS CORONA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Muhamad Faisal Assyuza ◽  
Anwar Miftahulkhairah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Verbal Process ◽  
Process System ◽  
Emergence Percentage ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
The Relationship

The study aims to describe the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) study regarding the relationship between the transitivity process system and sirkumstan of the situation in President Jokowi's speech about the handling of the COVID-19. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The source that used to be the object of this study was the text of President Jokowi's speech about the handling of the COVID-19. Data collection did not involve the author directly, but data was obtained from the Kabar24 website which was uploaded on March 15, 2020. The data collection technique used in this study was the reading comprehension technique which was carried out with a concentration on the object to be studied. The results showed that the total number of processes was 57 data. The number of material process occurrences was 31 data with an emergence percentage of 54%, then followed by the Mental process with 11 data occurrences, with an appearance percentage of 19%, the Relational process the number of occurrences was 6 data with an appearance percentage of 11%, the Behavioral process the number of occurrences was 3 data with an occurrence percentage of 5%, the Verbal process was 2 data with an appearance percentage of 4%, and finally the Existential process was 4 data with an appearance percentage of 7%. The number of sirskumstan recorded in time 1 and place 10.

From Brexit to the Break-Up of … England? Thinking in and Beyond the Nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Allan Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Social Geography ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
Central Pillar ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

The chapter sets the experience of Brexit in the context of the UK’s reshaping and redefinition over recent decades, with a particular focus on the troubled (re)emergence of ‘England’ as an imagined political territory. It analyses Brexit as a symptom of the political, economic and social geography of the UK, particularly its uneven development in a spatial polity dominated by London and the South East of England. The divisions within the UK were reflected in the voting patterns of the 2016 referendum and this may have significant implications for the UK’s future as a multinational state, and particularly for England as a central pillar of that state. The chapter explores some of the key factors that underlay the geographical patterns of the ways in which England and its regions voted in the referendum, highlighting the importance of uneven development in generating significant political outcomes and embedding social difference in place.

scholarly journals Experiences Around the Clauses: A Transitivity Analysis of Four Famous People’s Suicide Notes

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Sawirman Sawirman ◽  
Nurul Huda Ridhwani
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Verbal Process ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
Dominant Process ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Process Participant ◽  
Relational Process

Four suicide notes written by three famous people, Jiah Khan, Kevin Carter, and Virginia Woolf, were analyzed in this study. Systemic Functional Linguistics theory especially about transitivity proposed by Halliday is used to see the ideational meaning of all four suicide notes by identifying the elements of the clauses. This study was conducted with a qualitative method assisted by a descriptive statistical method to see the spread and functions of the elements of transitivity in the suicide notes. To analyze the text based on the theory of transitivity, the text is divided into clauses based on the type of process, then each element of the existing process, participant, and circumstantial element is calculated. The results show that out of 170 total processes found, the material process (42.94%) is the most dominant process, followed by the mental process (28.82%), the relational process (19.41%), the verbal process (5.29%), the behavioral process (2.94%), and the existential process (0.59%). Just like the process type, from the two types of participants (who are directly involved and obliquely involved) that exist, actor (22.88%) and scope (15.36%) which are the participants of the material process are the most dominant participants. While the existent (0.31%) which is the participant of the existential process, has the lowest occurrence frequency. For the circumstantial element, location which consists of place and time is the most dominant circumstantial element. The location accounts for 44% of the circumstantial elements in all four suicide notes. Furthermore, Jiah Khan’s suicide note with the material process as the most dominant process describes the unpleasant behavior she experienced, which then leads to betrayal, sacrifice, self-destruction, loss, and loneliness. Whereas Kevin Carter’s suicide note with the relational process of attributive as the most dominant process describes regret, pressure, and despair. Then both Virginia Woolf’s suicide notes show how she blamed herself for what happened although it has different dominant processes between the first suicide note and the second suicide note. 

scholarly journals ESTRUTURALISMO, DESENVOLVIMENTO E LEGISLAÇÃO COMERCIAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Fábio Da Silva VEIGA ◽  
João Otávio Bacchi GUTINIEKI
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Structuralist Theory ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

RESUMOPelo presente trabalho apresenta-se a teoria neoestruturalista como uma resposta aos desafios enfrentados pelo Direito na atualidade. Para tanto, busca-se conceituar a maneira segundo a qual aplicar-se-ia esta teoria, bem como demonstrar situações práticas que envolvem diretamente a conjuntura político-econômica em seu contato com o Direito Comercial. Por fim, analisa-se o risco, assim como a plausibilidade do estruturalismo frente aos desafios jurídicos atuais. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Desenvolvimento; legislação comercial; neoestruturalismo; proteção de interesses; poder econômico. ABSTRACT The present paper presents the neo-structuralist theory as a response to the challenges faced by law today. In order to do so, it seeks to conceptualize the way in which this theory would be applied, as well as to demonstrate practical situations that directly involve the political-economic conjuncture in its contact with Commercial Law. Finally, we analyze the risk as well as the plausibility of structuralism in the face of current legal challenges. KEYWORDS: Development; Commercial Legislation; Neo-Structuralism; Protection Of Interests; Economic Power.

scholarly journals Multipartidismo en el Parlamento británico y reforma del modelo Westminster ¿un ejemplo (una solución) para nuestro futuro sistema de partidos con representación parlamentaria? = Multiparty system in the british parliamen and the reform of the westminster

2015 ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
Federico de Montalvo Jääskeläinen
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
British Government ◽  
Liberal Democrats ◽  
The Uk

In 2011 the British Parliament approved, within the context of the coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, what can be seen as the most significant constitutional reform that the British government has undertaken in recent decades. This reform, called Fixed-term Parliament Act, 2011, restricts what was one of the main rights of the Prime Minister; dissolving the chamber in order to be able to call early elections. The reform is not motivated by an attempt to overcome the political crisis, similar to other European countries, that the UK is experiencing, but rather by the new demands that seem to derive from the current coalition government. It is certainly a reform that merits analysis by other nations, such as our own, in which fragmented parliaments are growing ever more likely, lacking strong majorities and posing problems that go beyond politics to the heart of the system.En 2011 el Parlamento británico aprobó, al amparo del acuerdo de coalición entre los conservadores y liberal-demócratas, la que puede considerarse la principal reforma constitucional a la que se ha visto sometido la forma de gobierno británica en las últimas décadas. Dicha reforma, bajo el nombre de Fixed-term Parliaments Act, 2011, supuso la supresión de una de las principales facultades del Primer Ministro, la de disolver la Cámara y convocar anticipadamente elecciones generales. Dicha reforma responde no tanto a la pretensión de superar la crisis política que vive el Reino Unido, similar a la que viven otros Estados europeos, sino a las nuevas exigencias que parecen derivarse del actual gobierno de coalición. En todo caso, se trata ciertamente de una reforma que merece la pena ser analizada desde otros Estados, como el nuestro, en los que se presagia un nuevo Parlamento muy fragmentado, sin mayorías de gobierno, con las consecuencias no sólo políticas que ello va seguramente a conllevar.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jeremy Green
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cooperative Partnership ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the close postwar association between the United Kingdom and the United States, which is known by a single mnemonic: the “Special Relationship.” It refers to an unusually close and cooperative partnership between two independent states, encompassing diplomatic, military-strategic, political, economic, and cultural spheres. For the UK, the Special Relationship has offered a means to preserve great-power status even though its capacity for unilateral action in pursuit of foreign policy objectives is greatly diminished. For the US, the UK's possession of nuclear weapons, access to political and military intelligence, and position on the United Nations Security Council are valuable appendages. Despite the occasional spat and periods of cooling, diplomatic relations between the two states have remained extraordinarily close. But for all that the concept of the Special Relationship has illuminated, it has also obscured much—for example, the political economy of Anglo-America, buried beneath more fashionable scholarly preoccupations with diplomacy, grand strategy, and the cultural and sentimental linkages between the two states. Thus, this book examines the political economy of the relationship between the UK and the US.

Rock Nacional in Argentina during the Dictatorship

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Wilson ◽  
Mara Favoretto
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Metaphorical Expression ◽  
The Military ◽  
Radical Transformation

In the 20th century Argentina experienced a series of dictatorial regimes of varying intensity, but the last dictatorship stands apart. The Process of National Reorganization or Proceso (1976–1983) was not only the most brutally repressive, “disappearing” 30,000 of its own citizens into concentration camps, but also the most ambitious in terms of ideological mission. Its campaign, officially called “the war against subversion,” was committed to the total eradication of leftist ideas from the political landscape of the country by any means necessary. This radical transformation was to be brought about not only in the torture chamber, but in the media as well. The regime planned an Orwellian redefinition of words: the systematic creation of a national vocabulary that would exclude certain ideas and parties. In order to achieve its overt project of the appropriation of language, the junta maintained obsessive control over the media, instituted strict censorship reinforced by terror, and bombarded the airwaves and newspapers with official communiqués. In the face of this repression, most journalists and writers and many artists could not express dissent of any kind. Yet singers of a new Argentine music genre that came to be known as rock nacional developed codified and oblique metaphorical expression in their lyrics that allowed them to evade censorship and to continue to criticize the military regime with relative impunity. Moreover, many Argentine youths found solace in the music and used it to create communities in which they could meet and express themselves. The regime had sought to deny young Argentines a forum for public speech; however, together artists and listeners created a rock nacional culture that provided community for the isolated and lent a voice to the silenced.

scholarly journals Anatomizing Ideology Below the Clause: The Transitivity Analysis of Iqbal’s Mukalma Jibra.īl-o-Iblīs (Gabriel and Lucifer)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (I) ◽  
pp. 258-278
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Mixed Method Approach ◽  
Meaning Potential ◽  
Verbal Process ◽  
Dominant Process ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Method Approach

This paper aims at exploring how ideology is construed in a text and how the text bears significant meaning potentials. Drawing on Systemic-functional Linguistics (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014), particularly on the Transitivity analysis, it examines how language serves in terms of two folds of structural social semiotics and ideology representation. The study probes out how the constituent analysis (Transitivity analysis) could be significant in unfolding the meaning potential of a text. The data was taken from the text of the poem ‘Jibra.īl -o-Iblīs'. The data was comprised of the twenty-two sentences taken from the text of the poem which was later on transliterated and translated for the purpose of analysis. The purposive sampling tool has been significantly helpful in the excerption of data, and a mixed-method approach has been employed in terms of analysis. Findings suggested that the poem reflects five process types which were Material, Mental, Verbal, Relational, and Existential and the participants been detected were Actor, Goal, Scope, Range, Beneficiary, Target, Senser, Phenomenon, Verbiage, Sayer, Token, Value, Attribute, Carrier and Existent. Also, the types of circumstance detected in the analysis were Circumstance of Manner, Location, Role, Contingency, Angle, Cause, Accompaniment, and Extent. To configure the dominant process type, Bungin’s statistical approach (2001) was employed. And, it is acknowledged that the dominant process type in the poem was the verbal process (47%) and the subsequent was the material process (27%). Findings also foreshadow that poem's meaning potential is blueprinted on a spiritual aura which is being communicated mainly through the verbal process and material process subsequently. This paper focuses only on the transitivity analysis the future researches could be done about interpersonal or textual metafunction analysis of the poem.

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