Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Article "Courtroom Quarrel Marks Student Protesters Trial"

This research is intended to (I) to observe the process types used in this articles, (2) to investigate the circumstances typed described in this article, (3) to know the participants involved in the text and (4) to disclose the relationship between the text and the social context. in order to answer the aforementioned questions, the writer uses a descriptive qualitative (naturalistic) design, and the data of this study were taken from the samples of newspaper article entitled "Courtroom Quarrel Marks Student Protesters Trial" written in The Jakarta Post, Thursday, October 16, 2008). The text is analyzed using Functional Grammar Analysis (by analyzing the theme and rheme and the transitivity elements). The results indicated that the text is dominantly numbered by the material process explaining that doing words are very dominant, whereas, the types of participants involved are ranged from specific legal context such as lawyer, defendant, witness, the court, the trials, the officials, etc. The writer of the text seems to show that in Indonesia, the power relation between the new order era and the reformed era has changed in a number of aspects

A Critical Discourse Analysis on Implicit Opinion of Russian Dissatisfaction Upon Putin Regime as Expressed in Article “the Civil Archipelago : How Far Can the Resistance to Vladimir Putin Go?”

This research discusses the implicit opinion about Russian people dissatisfaction upon Putin regime as expressed in article The Civil Archipelago: How Far Can the Resistance to Vladimir Putin Go? This article was published by an American popular mass media, The New Yorker. The main goal of this research is to uncover the hidden opinion that it is unable to emerge an ambiguous interpretation. The implicitness is analysed by using Potts's (2005) theory of Conventional Implicature. The domains used are Nominal Appositive and Supplementary Relative. In order to see the relationship between the implication and the ideological effect of mass media, a critical discourse analysis is applied as well. Namely by taking the socio-political relationship of Russia and US into account

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Three (3) Advertisement Entitled “Always on, Bebas Itu Nyata” Girl's Version

Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Advertisement, Text Analysis, Three (3). This study is conducted to know the power of Three (3) advertisement's narration entitled “Always On, Bebas itu nyata” towards the society. Since, this advertisement touches the Indonesian culture which gives the impact towards the society. There are two problems to be solved, namely: (1)What is the meaning of each utterances in the Three (3) advertisement “Always On, Bebas itu nyata” girl version based on Fairclough's three dimension model of CDA?; (2) What are society interpretations on the depiction of freedom on Three (3) advertisement “Always On, Bebas itu nyata”?.This study employs qualitative approach by using content or document analysis. Document analysis is applied because the aim of this study is to describe the meaning on Three (3) advertisement's utterances narration and the society's interpretation. The data of this research were all utterances found in Three (3) entitled “Always On, Bebas itu nyata” (girl's version) and the comment from internet regarding this advertisement. The writer applied several processes in collecting the data in certain order as follow: (1) downloading the complete video entitled “Always On, Bebas itu nyata” girl's version from Youtube, (2) transcribing the utterances by playing and pausing the video, (3) reading the whole transription of the utterances in order to check the utterances for understanding the message of advertisement, and (4) finding the society's comments in the Youtube's comment box and from the personal blogs.This present study reveals that based on society interpretation on the Three (3) advertisement narration, the society tends to see and directly related this advertisement's narration with the norm and culture in Indonesia without thinking about the main purpose of the advertisement maker.Finally, the writer suggests that the next researcher enrich the field of this study and possibly explore other numerous object with different theory of CDA. It will be very useful for the knowledge development especially in critical discourse analysis

Critical discourse analysis: Overview

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a young discipline has a history of only about three decades.postprin

(RE)-READING A KARTINI’S LETTER USING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Discussing the ideas of Kartini through her collected letters has been done by many scholars. However, they usually come from non-linguistic domain. As a result, the power of language used by Kartini in expressing her ideas almost has not been analysed. This study aims to identify meanings produced in one of her letter. Using the critical discourse analysis approach, the analysis results that by means of her letter, Kartini criticised the custom of Bumiputera society, struggled againts the domination of the custom, and recieved ‘new’ ideology from Western society. The ways she represented the Bumiputera’s and Western’s custom result the way she constructed identities of herself and the others

Chapter Three: Critical Discourse Analysis

The research is presented in five stages, each set as a chapter. The first chapter outlines a review of image studies conducted by various disciplines and an account of theoretical concepts useful in such a venture. The second chapter presents content analysis as a tool for image studies. Several techniques are exploited to study the media material and the results are discussed with a view of their suitability for the task of establishing the image of a country. The third chapter presents studies which apply Critical Discourse Analysis to media texts. The techniques are based on Systemic Functional Grammar. The Fourth Chapter shows corpus analysis and the contribution it gives to image studies. The Fifth Chapter draws the line summarising the contribution each of the proposed methods gives to establishing images and evaluates the methodology. Theoretically, the research is situated on the interface between Media Studies and Discourse Analysis. The concept of a country’s image created through media is very much within this theoretical domain. The object of the investigation is a medium and the tools are discourse analytical with reference to its critical dimension, inasmuch as the topic applies to a country which has been construed as a pariah on the international scene and issues of inequality and domination are expected

Critical Discourse Analysis of Ads

Este trabajo trata de las diferencias y similitudes que existen entre el lenguaje y el contexto que se utiliza en los anuncios dependiendo del sector del público al que va dirigido. Para ello, he elegido dos anuncios de juguetes, uno de Barbie y otro de Transformers, dirigidos al público infantil, para analizar esas similitudes y diferencias. En este análisis, sigo la propuesta de análisis de Guy Cook en su libro ‘The Discourse of Advertising’, en el que sugiere que, cuando se analiza el lenguaje de un anuncio, es importante analizarlo junto con su contexto.Departamento de Filología InglesaGrado en Estudios Inglese

The study of metaphor as part of Critical Discourse Analysis

This article discusses how the study of metaphoric and more generally, figurative language use contributes to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It shows how cognitive linguists’ recognition of metaphor as a fundamental means of concept- and argument-building can add to CDA's account of meaning constitution in the social context. It then discusses discrepancies between the early model of conceptual metaphor theory and empirical data and argues that discursive-pragmatic factors as well as sociolinguistic variation have to be taken into account in order to make cognitive analyses more empirically and socially relevant. In conclusion, we sketch a modified cognitive approach informed by Relevance Theory within CDA