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Political Language in Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis Muhammad Nurfazri; Afita Nur Hayati; Sajidin Sajidin; Dedi Sulaeman; Vini Rizki Nurodiah; Anis Khoirunnisa Syahrussalamah; Hanifa Mawadah; Nabiel Azhari Husaeni
Jurnal Perspektif Vol 10 No 1 (2026): Jurnal Perspektif
Publisher : UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jp.v10i1.425

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This study examines how progressive political discourse articulates ideology, constructs collective identity, and negotiates power relations between the public and political elites within the context of contemporary democracy. Using a critical qualitative design, the research was grounded in Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis framework: micro, mezzo, and macro. The data were taken from Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech published by the official ABC News YouTube channel. At the micro level, Mamdani frames the electoral victory as the result of a collective struggle through lexical, modal, metaphorical, rhetorical, and agency constructions that delegitimize elites and normalize demands for structural change. At the mezzo level, the speech reconstructs the victory speech genre by linking it to a narrative of ongoing struggle through historical intertextuality and media distribution strategies that position the audience as active political subjects. At the macro level, the discourse operates as an ideological intervention that challenges neoliberal and oligarchic hegemony by asserting democratic socialism as a response to inequality in contemporary democracy. Hence, the study concludes that critical discourse analysis provides a robust analytical lens for uncovering the role of language in both reproducing and contesting power relations, thereby contributing to a more critical understanding of political discourse in democratic contexts.
A Transitivity Analysis of Short Story ‘Reunion’ by John Cheever Using NVivo Anis Khoirunnisa Syahrussalamah; Sumarsih Sumarsih; Gisna Auliya
JEPAL (Journal of English Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics) Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026): July 2026
Publisher : Ma'soem University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32627/jepal.v7i1.1835

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The purpose of this research is to find the process type found in the short story titled ‘Reunion’ by John Cheever and identifies which process types are dominant in the text. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive. Data collection involves obtaining the text from the online source, segmenting it into clauses, coding techniques, and analyzing the data. The researcher applied the systemic functional linguistic theory presented by Halliday for transitivity analysis of the text. Clauses from the short story were coded and analyzed using NVivo software to ensure systematic classification. The findings reveal five types of transitivity processes: Material (35 clauses), Verbal (21 clauses), Relational (19 clauses), Mental (18 clauses), and Existential (2 clauses). Therefore, Material process is the dominant used type process in the short story text which means this text contains many actions or physical activities and events carried out by the characters in it. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how transitivity patterns construct meaning in literary texts and demonstrate the usefulness of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) for literary discourse analysis.
From Native Speaker Authority to Algorithmic Authority: A Decolonial Analysis of Algorithmic Authority and Linguistic Legitimacy Anis Khoirunnisa Syahrussalamah; Hanifa Mawadah; Andang Saehu; Cipto Wardoyo
Abjad Journal of Humanities & Education Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): Abjad: Journal of Humanities & Education
Publisher : Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62079/abjad.v4i2.156

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The decolonial critique of English Language Teaching has long described native-speakerism as a colonial ideology. A similar kind of authority is emerging, unperceived, unquestioned, and rationalised by the idea of technology as neutral, as AI-driven tools are increasingly deployed in EFL classrooms to assess language, provide feedback, and teach writing. The paper introduces the notion of algorithmic recolonisation to describe the transfer of authority from the biological native speaker to the computational program. Drawing upon a decolonial and critical post-humanist framework, this paper undertakes a comparative conceptual analysis to explore the structural parallels between native-speaker authority and algorithmic authority across four shared mechanisms: invisibility, idealisation, marginalisation of peripheral voices, and institutional legitimisation. It claims that AI systems are mostly trained on Western English data and reproduce the epistemic hierarchy marked by native-speakerism, now encoded rather than embodied. The paper calls for a critical and ideologically conscious pedagogy, one neither lulled by techno-utopianism nor dismissive of AI’s genuine affordances. It argues that without such vigilance, the decolonised classroom and the algorithmically governed classroom risk becoming indistinguishable.