who was 46 when he took office in 1993 Blair was re-elected in Parliamentary elections in 2001 and 2005. He stepped down as the prime minister on 27 June 2007 and was succeeded by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Tony Blair is a straight forward person and from his speech he has a power to control and
influence his environment. These characteristics fulfill the uses of language i.e. to understand the environment and think the effect of the speech to others. Hence, I choose Tony Blair as my
object of the analysis.
1.2 Problems of the Analysis
The problems of this analysis will be: 1. What types of circumstance are found in the three selected Tony Blair s speeches?
2. What is the dominant type of circumstance found in the three selected Tony Blair s speeches?
1.3 Objectives of the Analysis
The objectives of the analysis are: 1. To find out the types of circumstance occur in the three selected Tony Blair s
speeches. 2. To find out the most dominant type of circumstance found in the three selected Tony
Blair s speeches.
1.4 Significances of the Analysis
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The results of the analysis are expected to benefit both theoretically and practically. At theoretical level, the results of the analysis are expected to enrich the references of discourse
analysis study, particularly circumstantial study. On practical level, the results of this analysis are expected to contribute actual example of discourse analysis to understand about the application
of transitivity in speeches. Also to find out what types of circumstance occur in the three selected Tony Blair s speeches.
1.5 Scope of the Analysis
The analysis merely focuses on the types of circumstance in the systems of transitivity on the three selected Tony Blair s speeches which consists of Extent, Location, Manner, Cause,
Contingency, Accompaniment, Role, Matter, and Angle. The three selected Tony Blair s speeches are Speech by Tony Blair at the new world, new capitalism conference in January 8
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, 2009; Tony Blair s speech to the National Prayer Breakfast in February 05
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, 2009; Tony Blair and beyond sport working to show how sport can be replace enmity with friendship in march 26
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, 2009.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?
Concerning with discourse, there are many linguists and educators who have defined about discourse. Some of them are mentioned below:
1. Kress 1985: 27 says, Discourse is a category that belongs to and derives from the social domain, and text is a category that belongs to and derives from the linguistics
domain . What Kress mean here is that discourse and text are different. When one discuss about discourse it is not a product of language is text.
2. Stubbs 1983: 10 says, Discourse is language above the sentence or above clause . From the definitions of discourse above, it may be concluded that discourse is a study related
to text and language. The scope of discourse analysis is wide because discourse analyze units of languages not only in text but also in spoken for example speech, interview, conversation, etc.
Listener and readers try to understand every single meaning of the word. In reaching these, the speaker or the writer will try to find the best way in choosing words to link them each other so
that the reader or listener easy to understand. According to McCarthy 1992: 12 discourse analysis is not only concerned with the
description and analysis of spoken interaction. In addition to all our verbal encounters we daily consume hundreds of written and printed words: newspapers articles, letters, stories, recipes,
instruction, notices, comics, billboards, leaflets pushed through the door, and so on. It is usually expected to be coherent and meaningful communications in which the words andor sentences
are linked to one another in a fashion that corresponds to conventional formula, just as it is with speech. Therefore discourse analysis are equally interested in organization of write interaction.
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2.2. SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC THEORY SFLT
