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RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF THE JUDGES’ CONSIDERATIONS IN HATE SPEECH CASES Aisah; Aceng Ruhendi Saifullah; Dadang Sudana
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol. 11 No. 3 (2025)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v11i3.71

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This study examines the rhetorical structure of judges’ considerations in hate speech cases from a forensic linguistic perspective. While previous research has largely focused on identifying hate speech in digital discourse or on the linguistic features of evidentiary texts, limited attention has been paid to how judges construct legal reasoning in their written decisions. Employing a qualitative genre-based approach integrated with Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), this study analyzes judicial considerations as an institutional legal genre characterized by patterned argumentative moves. The findings reveal that judges’ considerations are systematically organized through recurring rhetorical stages, including case contextualization, linguistic evaluation of disputed utterances, alignment with statutory norms, argumentative reinforcement, and verdict legitimation. Coherence within judicial reasoning is predominantly achieved through justification, evaluation, and reinforcement relations, which function to present legal conclusions as inevitable and socially necessary. These results demonstrate that judicial reasoning in hate speech cases is not discursively neutral but strategically constructed to establish legal authority and institutional legitimacy. The study contributes to forensic linguistics and legal discourse analysis by foregrounding judges’ considerations as a central site of meaning-making in hate speech adjudication and by offering an analytical framework for examining rhetorical organization in judicial texts. 
Ibn Taymiyya on Universals: Nominalism, Textual Hermeneutics, and the Question of Scientific Rationality Teddy Yusuf; Dadang Sudana; Muhammad Zaka Al Farisi; Aceng Ruhendi Saifullah; Nur Ainiyah
Jaqfi: Jurnal Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam Vol. 11 No. 1 (2026): Jaqfi: Jurnal Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam
Publisher : Jurusan Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam Universitas Negri Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jaqfi.v11i1.46045

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It is frequently asserted that Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 728/1328) denial of extramental universals commits him to an anti-abstractionist literalism and, ultimately, to hostility toward scientific rationality. This article argues that the assertion rests on a conflation of three logically independent theses — a metaphysical thesis about universals, a hermeneutical thesis about textual meaning, and an epistemological thesis about the sources of knowledge — and that once these are disentangled, the inference to antagonism toward science does not follow. Working from al-Radd ʿalā al-Manṭiqiyyīn and Darʾ Taʿāruḍ al-ʿAql wa al-Naql, and using conceptual analysis together with a historically disciplined philosophical hermeneutics, the study advances three findings. First, Ibn Taymiyya's position on universals is better described as a moderate conceptualism than as radical nominalism, and on the narrow question of the universal's mode of existence it stands closer to Avicenna than is usually recognised. Second, his critique of the syllogism is driven by an epistemological preference for sense, experience, and reasoning from particulars; he is therefore a defender of induction rather than its opponent, and the widespread characterisation of him as anti-inductive inverts his actual position. Third, and consequently, the genuine difficulty in his thought is not hostility to empirical inquiry but a justification gap: having denied that shared natures exist extramentally, he lacks a metaphysical warrant for the inductive generalisations upon which he himself relies — a difficulty he shares with the empiricist tradition from Hume onward. Reframing the problem in this way is more faithful to the texts and relocates Ibn Taymiyya from the position of an adversary of science to that of an early participant in a problem internal to empiricism itself.
From Newsroom Frames to Courtroom Registers: Language as Patriarchal Legitimation in Sexual Violence Reporting Zulfiana Amaliana MZ; Aceng Ruhendi Saifullah; Yanty Wirza
Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya Vol 15, No 2 (2025)
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan dan Humaniora (FIPH), Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26714/lensa.15.2.2025.242-260

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This study examines how patriarchal authority is linguistically constructed and contested across media coverage and courtroom registers in sexual violence cases. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Halliday’s transitivity framework, the researcher analyses 784 clauses from 25 online news articles and one courtroom case adjudicated at the Praya District Court in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. News reports were selected through purposive sampling, focusing on cases where perpetrators were socially significant figures such as father, lecture, and religious leader. AntConc software generated frequency and concordance lists, which were qualitatively coded in ATLAS.ti to identity patterns of agency, responsibility, and identity representation. Findings reveal that media discourse is dominated by material processes (70%), foregrounding acts of abuse and institutional responses, while relational processes assign social roles that frame cases within patriarchal and hierarchies. Courtroom discourse is characterized by relational, verbal, and mental processes, where defendant deploy relational clauses and conditional threats to normalize coercion, mask abuse as paternal care, and silence resistance. This study introduces the concept of discursive paternalism to explain how paternal identity functions as a linguistic resource that reframes coercion as moral duty. By connecting media framing and courtroom registers, the analysis demonstrates that justice is discursively produced across interconnected arena, with media narratives priming societal expectations and courtroom language either reinforcing or challenging them