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Media Ownership and the Meaning of ‘Police’: A Computational Discourse Study in Indonesian News Portals Cahyani, Fanny Puteri; Andriani, Merry
RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa 127-137
Publisher : Program Studi Magister Ilmu Linguistik Universitas Warmadewa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22225/jr.12.1.2026.127-137

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The representation of the word “polisi” (police), which is initially lexically neutral, can acquire ideological meaning when it appears within media news texts. This study employs a corpus-linguistic approach using collocation and concordance analyses to reveal how linguistic strategies are constructed through patterns of repetition, lexical proximity, and institutional diction preferences used by the media. Data collection and processing were conducted using Visual Studio Code and the AntConc corpus concordance to examine co-occurrence relationships, grammatical patterns, and the semantic prosody associated with the word polisi (police). The research corpus was compiled contrastively of 1930 articles from Indonesian media outlets with differing institutional orientations, based on Benson’s institutional logic, which emphasizes that media operate within the frameworks of institutional interests and the ideologies that shape them. To complement the analysis, this study also employs Ramlan’s syntactic theory to examine the construction of subject–predicate relations and constituent functions within sentences, as well as semantic prosody theory to evaluate the implicit evaluative load behind collocational patterns. The findings indicate that AntaraNews tends to present a more homogeneous and stable representation, constructing the police as an ideal and professional law enforcement institution, whereas Tempo offers a more heterogeneous, critical, and varied representation, particularly in its emphasis on institutional accountability. These differences demonstrate that media are not neutral entities but rather arenas of discourse production that reflect the ideological orientations of their respective institutions.
Scrutinizing deceits in fake news using forensic linguistic within French alternative news media Andriani, Merry; Deloye, Zoé
Diksi Vol. 34 No. 1: DIKSI (MARCH 2026)
Publisher : Fakultas Bahasa, Seni, dan Budaya, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/diksi.v34i1.95120

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Linguistic instruments together with informatics tools can be used to detect fake news narratives, which are sometimes increasingly difficult to distinguish from true news. This study tries to design the stages of detection of lies in the fake news discourse found in French alternative media using linguistic features. This approach is also known as forensic linguistic theory developed by Malcolm Coulthard. The data used are survey result among the francophone media consumers in Indonesia and articles originated from three different French alternative news media platform that have been identified as fake news by checking through fake news verification sites available on several investigator media platforms. These three articles are classified and analyzed using intertextuality and interdiscursivity methods within the forensic linguistic concepts. Critical perspective is used as the conceptual framework throughout this research. The results of the analysis show that 14.3% of respondents are not able to identify the fake news in the media they consumed. The linguistic features within 254 sentences contained deceits filtered from three medias tend to often use lexical morpheme components and syntactic patterns that provoke emotions and empathy in readers. Furthermore sentences structures are found in passive patterns frequently and use impersonal subjects as markers to a fewer references and cognitive complexity.