Drawing on Halliday’s Theory of Transitivity with language constructs critically examined through van Dijk’s Ideological Discourse Analysis, this study determined ideologies in the banner headlines from three selected Philippine daily broadsheets; namely, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin about President Rodrigo Duterte and his first 100 days in his office. The paper elucidated how these ideologies are created and how social identity is shaped through the linguistic choices of the journalists. Also, the Transitivity analysis of the 80 banner headlines revealed that the broadsheets portrayed the Philippine president as an active agent mostly through the verbal process with circumstances highly related to his duties and responsibilities as a national leader. This observation is supported by the results of Ideological Discourse Analysis revealing the following ideologies as major themes: President Duterte: (1) as a sayer, (2) as a national leader with a strong personality; and (3) his conflicts. These ideologies were found to be constructed through mapping the ideas in the headlines’ language domains.
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