Pro-Immigrant Ideology in Verbal Processes
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From this explanation, it can be said that the assignment of President Obama as sayer in this verbal process depicts that he is not in control in enacting new laws.
Government in the U.S. is not only of President Obama and his cabinet, who are in the executive branch, but also the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress
the legislative branch and the judicial branch. Since the ones who make laws are the Congress, so it is understood that President Obama can only promise upon the
enactment of immigration reform. From this verbal process, it can be said that the depiction as such portrays the stance of The New York Times as pro-immigrant.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California imploring the administration Sayer
Verbal Receiver
Clause 3b The verbal process in this clause is imploring. By using the verb imploring, the
writer of the editorial wants to convey message that the administration of homeland security department is so harmful upon the immigrant workers in California, that
makes Senator Dianne Feinstein have to implore them. To implore means to ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere, emotional and determined way.
The assignment of Senator Dianne Feinstein as the sayer in this verbal process shows that she pays full attention upon immigrants and tries to stop the ramped-up
immigration audits by writing to departing secretary of homeland security. This can be seen here, that the receiver is administration of homeland security. Receiver has
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the power to respond to verbal signals. So it is expected that by what Senator Dianne writes, the administration will respond and stop the immigration audits.
From this explanation, it can be said that the assignment of Senator Dianne, Democrat of California as the sayer in this verbal process ideologically depicts that
Democratic Party is the party which cares for the immigrants. Unfortunately, again, government is not only Senate in legislative branch, the receiver here is one of the
executive department agencies in the U.S. which is included in the executive branch. Department of Homeland Security is the one dealing with immigrants so that is why
Senator Dianne implore the secretary of that department to stop doing the immigration audits.
From the discussion of verbal processes in The New York Times’ editorial, it can be said that the government is depicted as the ruling group who are in control of
the enactment of new laws. Due to the newspaper’s liberal political stance, it is no wonder that it ideologically depicts that the ones who care for immigrants are from
Democratic Party, which is of liberal political stance. By this depiction in this verbal process, the text writer wants to emphasize the liberal political common sense, that it
supports upon the enactment of immigration reform. Therefore, it can be said that the ideology of The New York Times is pro-immigrant.
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