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Abstract
This study conducts a digital discourse analysis of President Trump’s first trial in the U.S. Congress. Data were collected from the scripts of the trial’s sessions displayed online in the congressional records and documents of the United States. The study adopts the framework of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). Accordingly, the selected data were examined from a lexico-grammatical and semantic perspective. The lexicogrammatical perspective focuses on examining the Theme-Rheme and Given-New information systems, embedded clauses, and logical dependency (i.e. hypotaxis and parataxis) and logico-semantic relations (i.e. projection and expansion) between clauses used by the speakers in the trial. The semantic perspective examines the message that the text conveys and the progression pattern followed in the text. The study also analyzes the context-based register categorization (i.e. tenor, mode and field), referring to the genre of the texts employed to convey certain messages. Finally, the study analyzes the cohesive devices employed by the speakers to make their speech coherent and textured. The study concludes that the language used by the speakers managed to convey the explicit and implicit messages and present their views.