How is Indonesian Presidential Election Represented in Online Newspapers?

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.227How to use a DOI?

Keywords

computer-assisted critical discourse analysis; Indonesian political issue; socio-cognitive; Indonesian online newspaper; representation

Abstract

This study was aimed at picturing the tendency of political issue produced by eight Indonesian online newspapers. Computer-assisted critical discourse analysis (CACDA) was applied. Corpus based linguistics analysis was employed to unveil the frequency of words in 16 different articles as the representation of lexical tendency of journalist. In addition, descriptive study was utilized in uncovering the socio-cognitive context of the token conducted by the eight-online newspaper. The articles contained the issue related to Ulama, electability survey, the team of campaign, and enhancing image of the candidates. As the result, the most frequent word was represented by the word “Prabowo” with 72 words and 1.1759% appearances. From 72 words, the concordance of the words were dominated by the negative statements with 30 sentences. Further, the token was mostly represented in negative social context. Therefore, the tendency of online media toward Indonesian political issues is the representation of one figure of candidates negatively.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lucky Rahayu Nurjamin
AU  - Aceng Ruhendi Saifullah
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - How is Indonesian Presidential Election Represented in Online Newspapers?
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 65
EP  - 70
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.227
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.227
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