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Transitivity System on Prabowo's Representation in British Online Article: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach Octavia Chandra Dewi; Heriyanto Heriyanto; Elvi Citraresmana
Metahumaniora Vol 11, No 2 (2021): METAHUMANIORA, SEPTEMBER 2021
Publisher : Universitas Padjadjaran

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24198/metahumaniora.v11i2.35493

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Articles in online media might represent media’s perspective about the object of their news. After a long process of the Indonesian presidential election in 2019, Prabowo’s appointment as the Minister of Defense in the Indonesia Presidential cabinet became hot issue. The appointment was questioned particularly due to the former general’s past actions. This study aims to analyze how the media present their news articles regarding the appointment of Prabowo as Defense Minister using the transitivity system in the Clause as Representation, and to describe how the representation of Prabowo on his appointment influenced the interpretation of the readers. The study adopted the descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data based on Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough (1995a) and transitivity system by Halliday (2004). The data sources were taken from the article in the British online media, TheGuardian.com. This study results in the number of positive representations that are more than the negative representations, but with a slight difference so that it can be said to be balanced.
FACE MASKS, BETWEEN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MESSAGES IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS Octavia Chandra Dewi
Metahumaniora Vol 12, No 2 (2022): METAHUMANIORA, SEPTEMBER 2022
Publisher : Universitas Padjadjaran

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24198/metahumaniora.v12i2.37065

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In the COVID-19 pandemic, people should wear face masks as medical equipment to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Some people donate and distribute face masks to many other people in social charity events. Unfortunately, these kinds of events are used by some people to do political campaigns while distributing donations. This study conducted a Semiotic analysis to describe and analyze signifiers brought by face masks distributed in a social charity event by a Klaten’s regent that symbolizes social and political messages. Using the concept of ‘rhetoric of the image’ by Barthes (1977), which was dragged into a critical semiotics study, which analyzed the image, colors, and written language on the object observed in a video taken from television news. Political messages are often disguised in social events and publications to gain more supporters for bigger chances to win the election.