Textual analysis on celebrity news in the online media

Degaf, Agwin, Wijana, I Dewa Putu and Poedjosoedarmo, Soepomo (2019) Textual analysis on celebrity news in the online media. LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra, 14 (2). pp. 249-260. ISSN 2442-3823

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Abstract

This research examines online media related to the cases of Indonesian celebrities using a critical discourse analysis approach. It aims to explain the textual strategies used by the online press upon reporting the facts. The textual strategy focuses on the selection of precise vocabulary and the use of specific grammar. The data are collected through reading and note taking techniques on news texts in the online media, liputan6.com, and kapanlagi.com, with topics such as the divorce of Marshanda, Asmirandah interfaith marriage, and the case of celebrity prostitution. The current descriptive qualitative research employs critical discourse analysis proposed by van Dijk which generally believes that media always contains interests and partisanship. Therefore, they tend to provide a positive picture of themselves/groups (positive self-presentation) and negative images about others (negative other presentation). The map can be analyzed through the way the media use the diction and build specific sentences inside the news. The result shows that the media uses vocabulary such as mothers who have an affair, women who cannot be emulated, presumptuous women, a liar man, no longer Muslim when reporting on the case of Marshanda’s divorce, and Asmirandah’s interfaith marriage. Furthermore, the researcher finds the use of passivation, abstraction, categorization, identification, and anonymity strategies in grammar.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	critical discourse analysis; textual analysis; celebrity news; online media
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters
Depositing User:	Dr. Agwin Degaf
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2020 10:16

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