Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar provides a new perspective and method for political discourse analysis. This paper first introduces the research status of at home abroad, then elaborates three metafunctions Grammar, namely ideational function, interpersonal function as well textual function. On this basis, makes an in-depth transitivity analysis inaugural address 46th president United St...

Florence Clark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is President of AOTA and Professor, Associate Dean, and Chair of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089; [email protected] Clark, F. (2010). High-definition occupational therapy: HD OT (Inaugural Presidential Address). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64, 848–8...

This study analyzes President Trump’s inaugural speech (2017) based on the principles of Appraisal Theory (Martin & Rose, 2007). Appraisal/ Evaluation Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a framework used for analyzing evaluative language that focuses how people explicitly or implicitly show their feelings, they take positions, and align misalign themselves with social issues. Martin ...

The Revival of Ovariotomy. By Sir Spencer Wells, Bart. Inaugural Address read before the Midland Medical Society. 1885. In the face of some recent controversy as to whom merit is chiefly due in establishing Ovariotomy among justifiable surgical operations, it is a significant fact that the Midland Medical Society should have invited Sir Spencer Wells to address them in Birmingham. From Birmingh...