Making Muslim the Enemy: A Transitivity Analysis on Anti-Islam Hate Speech

Abstract

This article presents an analysis on online anti-Islam hate speech in term of its persuasiveness. Like the other types of hate speech, in anti-Islam hate speech there is an element of persuasion to make its readers believe on the truth of the statements. Using Halliday’s transitivity framework in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the data which were taken from the comments responding to the Video of Donald Trump’s speech on Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city in four selected YouTube channels were analyzed to reveals how the process types used in the clauses expressing anti-Islam hate speech becomes a persuasion tool to persuade the readers on the truth of the messages conveyed in the hate speeches. The result shows that the process types are employed to provide evidences. All of the evidences are presented to prove the readers on the negativity of Muslim and Islam.

Keywords: Online anti-Islam hate speech, Transitivity, process type, persuasion.

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/12-8-06

Publication date: April 30^th 2022