A Transitivity Analysis of Two Political Articles: An Investigation of Gender Variations in Political Media Discourse

The purpose of the present study is to use transitivity analysis investigate gender variations in political media discourse from point view male and female columnists. To attain this purpose, paper adopts a critical (CDA) Halliday’s theory process types. Literature shows that variation one key elements affecting language. However, studies, particularly article writing, has not been recently addressed relation analysis. scrutinize types involving material, mental, relational, verbal, existential, behavioral processes, qualitative quantitative methods were deployed achieve deep understanding Paired Sample T-Test also employed whether there significant difference pertaining frequencies transitivity. results revealed material most frequent used by columnists highly dominated both articles. In addition, finding showed no Analyzing participants’ roles circumstances could provide more pertinent data for further research.