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This research is a corpus based critical discourse analysis of selected political speeches by Hillary Clinton, Michael Obama, Halimah Yaccoub, Donald Trump and others. The aim of the study is to analyze the difference between male and females’ political discourses to prove the language variation existence between genders in standard public political speech. The grammatical features found in the analysis are analyzed through Halliday’s transitivity system. Halliday’s transitivity focuses on examining the processes types and their circumstances and participants. Throughout the analysis, special attention is paid to the way those verb processes are used by the speakers that portray the distinction between male and female speeches. It is also proved that Halliday’s Transitivity is very effective in showing the similarities and differences between females’ and males’ speeches.
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