Evaluating Attitudes in News Text: Appraisal in Critical Discourse Study

DOI

10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

critical; discourse; appraisal; attitude; culture

Abstract

The discrimination in religious affair has become a global problem which is very essential to be noticed in a linguistic way, especially for conflict between Israel and Palestinians on Gaza which keep on happening for many years. This study contributes in critical discourse study by interpreting the discourse to understand social culture from the linguistic perspectives by analyzing text through systemic functional linguistics: appraisal system. The gap of the study which differs from other researches is namely analyzing the news item from Cable News Network (CNN) dated in April in 2018 in the religious case investigated in the aspects of language evaluation. The study focuses on attitude: affect to find out the classification of feeling used in the text to construe the cultural aspects. The design of the study is descriptive qualitative. There are two kinds of validity implemented in this study. They are expert validity and source validity. The expert validity is reached through the comments given by the experts. The findings of the study show that the text consists of appraisal which shows unhappiness: antipathy (23.81%); security: confidence (23.81%); dissatisfaction: displeasure (14.29%); insecurity: disquiet (9.52%); behavioral surge (9.52%); insecurity: surprise (4.76%); inclination (4.76%); security: trust (4.76%); unhappiness: misery (4.76%). The appraisal can show that the text has applied negative feeling on unhappiness: antipathy of Israel to Palestinians and security: confidence between them who both of them feel strongly confident in their each deed.

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© 2018, 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  - Chalimah Chalimah
AU  - Riyadi Santosa
AU  - Djatmika Djatmika
AU  - Tri Wiratno
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Evaluating Attitudes in News Text: Appraisal in Critical Discourse Study
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 54
EP  - 59
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.10
DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.10
ID  - Chalimah2018/08
ER  -