Analysis of President Xi’s Speech at the Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit in light of Systemic Functional Grammar

Xingyuan Cao and Lingling Liu
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Xingyuan Cao: School of Foreign Languages, China Three Gorges University, Daxue No.8, Xiling District, YiChang City, Hubei Province, 443002, PRC
Lingling Liu: School of Foreign Languages, China Three Gorges University, Daxue No.8, Xiling District, YiChang City, Hubei Province, 443002, PRC

English Literature and Language Review, 2020, vol. 6, issue 8, 157-162

Abstract: Politics is a genre of language, and language is the manifestation of politics (Mazrui, 2008). Political discourse not only plays an important role in the process of national external communication but also conveys certain ideology and political intentions. Based on interpersonal function in Systemic Functional Grammar and using President Xi’s speech at the Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit as the original data, this paper analyzes and explores how this speech can achieve discourse function through personal pronouns, mood, and modality. In addition, this paper reveals how various linguistic resources are used to realize interpersonal meaning in political discourse.

Keywords: Political discourse; Interpersonal function; Ideology; G20 leaders’ summit. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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