Paramasastra: Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa Sastra dan Pembelajarannya
Vol 4, No 2 (2017): VOL 4 NO 2 BULAN SEPTEMBER 2017

SHIFTING INTERPRETATION OF JOHN KERRY’S SPEECH ABOUT SYRIA CONFLICT REPORTED BY KOMPAS TV

Dewi, Sheellviana (Unknown)
Himmawati, Dian Rivia (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Sep 2017

Abstract

The issue of John Kerry?s speech about Syria conflict reported by Kompas TV takes interpretation process. Interpretation used in transforming source language (John Kerry/English) to target language (Kompas TV/Indonesian). The aim of this study is revealing shifting interpretation inserted by Kompas TV while reporting John Kerry?s speech about Syria conflict. Documentary video from Kompas TV and the United States official channel on YouTube is the data which consist of three videos. Qualitative data approach is applied to this study because the analysis gives explanation to strength the findings. The result of the analysis shows that Kompas TV used complex syntax, making long passage into a sentence, de-verbalization, and compression to get John Kerry?s idea. All of John Kerry?s utterances are simplified into the simple one. Hence, Kompas TV shifts the interpretation through complex syntax process which  is inserted in semantic macrostructures, syntactic of subject position, self-define of terrorist, and disclaimer to reject racism.

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Journal Info

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paramasastra

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Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Social Sciences

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discusses field-based research, literature research, and theoretical and methodological reflection on languages, literatures, and its teaching. This journal receives research-based articles or literary-based studies that will be published twice a year through the screening process. All articles ...