Comparing Discourses in George W. Bush and Scott Morrison’s Speeches on ‘War on Terror’

Irma, Suryani (2021) Comparing Discourses in George W. Bush and Scott Morrison’s Speeches on ‘War on Terror’. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

These discourses on the ‘war on terror’ declared by George W. Bush and Scott Morrison is discussed in this study. George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States and Scott Morrison was the 30th Prime Minister of Australia and is still in office. This study uses Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory from Halliday to see the ideational meaning of the two speech discourses by identifying the elements and clauses. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach assisted by descriptive statistical methods to see the distribution and functions, and elements of transitivity in the two speech discourses. Speech discourses is divided by clause based on the participants and the process they have. Each process, participant, and circumstantial element that has been divided is calculated as a percentage. The results showed that of the 160 total processes found in the two speech discourses, the material process is the most dominating process (53.75%). The material process represents an appeal that oriented on the action, the activity, and the real action to combat terrorists. Mental process (19.37%), relational process (13.12%), verbal process (10.62%), the existential process (2.50%) occupy the second, third, fourth, and fifth highest positions. The behavioral process (0.62%) is the lowest process in the discourse of the two figures. Directly proportional to the type of process, the most dominant participant in the material process is the actor. Actor or participant who are directly involved have a percentage (29.86%), and scope as participant indirectly have a rate (4.16%). Meanwhile, the lowest participants were found in participants from the behavioral process (0.34%). Seeing from the circumstantial element, there is location as the most common circumstantial element found with a percentage of (58.87%). The results of this study also found that George W. Bush uses material process to show negative image of the terroris(me). In addition to the material process, Scott Morrison also use verbal process to convey the image of terrorists. The linguistic features in both speech discourses both depict a negative image of terrorists. The findings also proves that the choice of grammar in the two discourses indirectly uses the speaker’s perspective on terrorists which influence listeners' opinion.

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