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Presidents and Ideologies: A Transitivity analysis of Bingu wa Mutharika’s inaugural address

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dc.contributor.author Kondowe, Wellman
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-22T09:50:07Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-22T09:50:07Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Kondowe, W. (2014). Presidents and Ideologies: A Transitivity analysis of Bingu wa Mutharika’s inaugural address. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(3), 174-180. https://bit.ly/35G2U8J en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://bit.ly/35G2U8J
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mzuni.ac.mw/handle/123456789/369
dc.description.abstract The study is set to analyse how the third Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika manipulated language in his second inaugural address to enhance his political ideologies by using Halliday’s transitivity system as a theoretical framework. Among the six processes outlined in the framework, the study discovers that material processes highly dominate the speech, distantly followed by relational, while verbal processes come third. Material clauses suggest that Bingu construes the world in terms of his past and future happenings by commemorating his first term achievements and setting his administrative and political principles of his next tenure. His choice of actors suggests that Bingu attributes the achievements to himself which is a characteristic of undemocratic leadership style. He also uses a majority of relational identifications to point out to himself and his administration as the main development players. Verbal processes have been used as markers of transition and topic shift; still, he refers to himself as the main sayer. The speech foregrounds Bingu as a leader with autocratic and dictatorship leadership ideologies. The study concludes that such leadership characteristics could be possible reasons that led to his political downfall as his record on good governance, human rights, and political tolerance significantly got worsened in his second term. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Science publishing group en_US
dc.subject Bingu wa Mutharika en_US
dc.subject Malawi en_US
dc.subject Malawi, Systemic Functional Grammar en_US
dc.subject Transitivity en_US
dc.subject Inaugural Address en_US
dc.subject Political Ideologies en_US
dc.title Presidents and Ideologies: A Transitivity analysis of Bingu wa Mutharika’s inaugural address en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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