Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang ilmu bahasa dan sastra
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021): Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra

GENDER REPRESENTATION ON THE TEXT OF ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPERS

Alemina Br. Perangin-angin (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Masdiana Lubis (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Ely Hayati Nasution (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Tasnim Lubis (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Zurriyati A. Jalil (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Lhokseumawe)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Oct 2021

Abstract

Since March 2020, the Government has enforced Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) in various red zones to minimize the number of Covid-19 cases, to work from home or live at home might bring additional issues, such as violence against women, in the latest situation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, newspapers play a vital role in reporting occurrences of female assault. .This article focuses on examining how women are exposed to violence in Indonesia during the current pandemic of coronavirus (COVID-19) from Critical Discourse Analysis. This research aimed to discover the Critical Discourse Analysis of newspaper articles that deal with violence against women. The articles is qualitative research, reported based on content analysis techniques. This research contributes to the analysis of media representation of women by providing context-sensitive results of the phenomena that occurred in women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings reveal the stability of discursive structures over time, especially gender bias in women's media representation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Women are still affected by gender bias due to the patriarchal, social, and culture that exists in Indonesia. The newspapers can provide a clear picture of women. This research by the Critical Discourse Analysis investigates how the BBC.com news, VOAindonesia.com texts reveal their meaning, while the newspapers reported women's existence as marginalizing, the BBC.com news, VOAindonesia.com, were also the courage to raise women's image as marginalizing.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

kata

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Kata : Penelitian tentang ilmu bahasa dan sastra, by ISSN 2502-0706 (Online) Research on linguistics, literature and art. Is a scientific journal that publishes the results of research and thinking in two languages, namely: Indonesian and English. Jurnal Kata is published twice a year in May ...