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zes  the interpersonal  meanings  of  Obama’s  State  of  the  Union  Address  by  employing Functional Grammar and Pragmatic Ambivalence. He holds the idea that analysis of the  interpersonal  meaning  of  SOTU  Address  is  beneficial  to  understand  the  SOTU Address profoundly and enhance the ability of reading comprehension. Cheng Kunyi (2011) studies political euphemisms of SOTU Address of presidents of United States in  light  of  Adaptation.  In  Cheng’s  thesis,  he  explains  how  the  presidents  of  United States adapt to elements of communicative context by adopting political euphemisms. Communicative context may include such elements as language users, mental, social and  physical  world  in  order  to  achieve  certain  political  aims,  to  make  the  public happy,  to  disguise  the  truth,  to  beautify  the  dark  reality,  and  to  achieve  political identity.  He  focuses  on  the  euphemisms  under  the  viewpoint  of  communicative context. 
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2.2 Previous Studies of Transitivity 
When it comes to transitivity, verbs are certainly reminded. Verbs are classified into  transitive  verbs  and  intransitive  verbs  in  traditional  grammar.  Transitive  verbs have  a  direct  object.  Such  as  give,  bring.  Instead,  intransitive  verbs  cannot  take  a direct  object.  For  example,  laugh.  However,  transitivity  in  SFG  is  different  from traditional grammar. Considerable  works  have  expanded  the  scope  of  transitivity  and  each  of  them can be claimed a hallmark in distinct approaches. Transitivity first put forward by Halliday (1964) that should be considered as an attribute  of  clauses  instead  of  verbs.  There  are  three  meta  functions  of  any  form  of text. Halliday (2000) puts it as follows: Going-on  happening,  doing,  sensing,  meaning,  being  and  becoming  are  six fundamental parts of our most powerful conception of reality. They respectively refer to  giving  and  demanding  commodities  and  services  and  information,  meanwhile reflecting, imposing order on the endless changes and flow of events. It is transitivity that helps achieve the grammatical system. It is transitivity system that expounds the world of experience into a manageable set of process types.   Halliday firstly applied the transitivity theory to discourse analysis in 1971. He analyzed William Golding’s novel The Inheritors. Following him, a lot of studies in this field began to flourish. However, those studies were only limited to the revelation of stylistic features. 
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