This thesis adopts Systemic-Functional Grammar as its theoretical framework to conduct a transitivity analysis of David Cameron’s speech in retaining Scotland. The aim is to work out the distributions and functions of the transitivity processes and the main participants. To attain this goal, two research questions are proposed. The first one is what the distributions of transitivity processes are and the main participants in David Cameron’s speech. The second one is what the functions of transitivity processes and main participants in David Cameron’s speech are. The quantitative and qualitative methods are adopted simultaneously in analyzing the whole text of David Cameron’s speech. The analysis yields two major findings as follows: 1. all of the six process types can be found in Cameron’s speech. Among them, the relational process and material process are the most frequently occurred process types in his speech, which makes his speech more objective and convincing; 2. The pronouns of the first plural forms “we, us and our” are the main participants in Cameron’s speech, which shows he wants to shorten the distance with his audiences.
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Transitivity Analysis, Process, Participants, Cameron’s Speech
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