The Representation of Social Actors in the Putin’s Financial Times Interview

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  • Suswanto Ismadi Megah Universitas Riau Kepulauan, Indonesia
  • Novrian Syaputra Motumona Universitas Riau Kepuluan, Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to uncover ideologies of president Vladimir Putin based on the interview in the Financial Times newspaper. This study adopted Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory of Halliday and Matthiessen (2014), particularly Transitivity analysis. This analysis utilized processes and participants of Transitivity is to examine Putin’s ideology behind his lexical choices. This study applied a qualitative approach. The data findings present the highest number of occurrences came to Mental process with 60 occurrences (38%), This finding indicates how Putin’s ideology. Putin plants his ideology by showing his hard work and how he convinced USA’s president. This is done to build his positive image and people trust to him in order he get support from his constituents. This study is concluded that Putin attempts to uphold his ideology in order he can maintain his power relation among he himself to the public or people.

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2025-05-30

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Megah, S. I., & Motumona, N. S. (2025). The Representation of Social Actors in the Putin’s Financial Times Interview. Research and Innovation in Language Learning, 8(2), 47–56. Retrieved from https://jurnal.ugj.ac.id/index.php/RILL/article/view/6858

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