<![CDATA[The phenomenon of celebrity divorce in Indonesia during the 2024–2025 period has received extensive coverage in digital media and sparked public discourse. This study examines how media framing of celebrity divorce contributes to the construction of legal consciousness regarding Islamic family law in the public sphere. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the research integrates socio-legal analysis with cognitive linguistics. The data consist of 15 widely reported celebrity divorce cases published in major Indonesian online media outlets between 2024 and 2025, selected through purposive sampling based on the intensity of media exposure and relevance to family law issues. The analysis focuses on the identification of conceptual metaphors, evaluative lexical choices, and framing patterns, which are subsequently interpreted within the framework of maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah and legal consciousness theory. The findings indicate that media narratives frequently frame divorce through metaphors of rationality (“the best decision,” “a new chapter”) and dramatization (“domestic storm,” “divorce drama”), discursively shifting its meaning from a normatively religious event to a rational and modern personal choice. While these representations do not directly determine legal behavior, they potentially contribute to a more permissive perception of divorce, particularly among younger audiences. This study proposes a conceptual model of “language as an instrument of social regulation” in Islamic family law, highlighting the circular relationship between media representation, cognitive construction, and public legal consciousness. The findings contribute to contemporary Islamic family law scholarship by incorporating linguistic and discursive dimensions into socio-legal analysis.]]>
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