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How Women Are Portrayed in Opinion in the Kompas Daily Newspaper According to Sara Mills' Critical Discourse Studies? Bahardur, Iswadi; Afrinda, Putri Dian; Delpa, Delpa
Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Research Vol 4, No 2 (2024)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.51817/jpdr.v4i2.957

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This research is motivated by the problem of gender inequality issues in women's lives that are still often reported by the mass media. Among the mass media that reported this was the daily newspaper Kompas, especially in an opinion piece entitled Perempuan dan Mimpinya published on June 6, 2024. Based on the background of the problem depicted in the Women and Their Dreams (Perempuan dan Mimpinya) opinion, the purpose of writing this article is to describe how women are viewed by the mass media and their relationship to the current social reality of society. The collection of research data was carried out using reading techniques, including the steps of reading carefully and repeatedly the opinions that were the source of research data, marking vocabulary, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that were in accordance with the criteria of the research problem, recording and inventorying them in an inventory table. The data was analyzed using an interactive method to reveal the position of women behind the text Women and Their Dreams (Perempuan dan Mimpinya) and its relationship to the current social reality of society. Analysis of the research data shows three things. First, the position of the subject in the discourse of the Perempuan dan Mimpinya opinion is occupied by the author who acts as the storyteller, while the position of the object is occupied by women. Second, the author tries to direct the reader to become the actor of the story by presenting a pseudo reality and cultural code in the text that seems to be the reality in the reader's real life. Third, the meaning of the entire discourse of opinion on Women and Their Dreams shows that in the domestic and public spaces women are still not fully able to become a gender group that is equal to the masculine gender group.
MAPPING MEANING: A DISCOURSE-PRAGMATIC LENS ON DEIXIS IN ACADEMIC WRITING Hartati, Yulia Sri; Bahardur, Iswadi; Silvia, Annisa
Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Research Vol 5, No 2 (2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.51817/jpdr.v5i2.1547

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Deixis, as a key pragmatic feature, plays an important role in structuring meaning, positioning the writer, and guiding the reader through academic texts. This study investigates the use and function of different deixis categories in research proposals written by students, intending to reveal their role in academic positioning and reader engagement. Adopting a pragmatic approach, five research proposals from scientific writing were purposively selected. The analysis identified five primary types of deixis—person, time, place, discourse, and social—each serving distinct rhetorical purposes. Person deixis was found to be crucial in negotiating writer–reader relationships, while time deixis organized the research narrative chronologically and signaled methodological procedures. Place deixis localized the research context, discourse deixis ensured textual cohesion, and social deixis indexed academic politeness and formality. The findings reveal that while students demonstrate basic control over deictic expressions, there is limited strategic use of deixis for building stance, engagement, and argumentation strength. This suggests a pragmatic competence gap affecting the persuasive and coherent delivery of research proposals. The study highlights the pedagogical implications of integrating pragmatics into academic writing instruction, enabling novice writers to position themselves within the academic community effectively. This research contributes to the growing body of pragmatic studies by focusing on an underexplored genre, research proposals within scientific writing. Future research is recommended to expand the dataset, include cross-linguistic comparisons, and explore multimodal deixis in digital academic submissions. This study provides valuable insights for improving research writing pedagogy and fostering advanced academic literacy skills by deepening the understanding of how deixis shapes academic discourse.