Assess advanced ability to apply systemic functional linguistics to political speeches: analyze register (field, tenor, mode), identify cohesive devices (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical cohesion), and interpret ideological stance through transitivity, mood, modality, appraisal, theme/rheme, and lexical choices. Require evidence-based analyses that link textual features to register shifts, cohesion patterns, and persuasive/ideological effects; include short extracts for close analysis and justify claims with SFL concepts.