Skripsi

Reality construction in political news of the Jakarta Post: a semiotic analysis / Junda Yanti

Abstrak
ABSTRACT Yanti Junda. 2009. Reality Construction in Political News of The Jakarta Post A Semiotic Analysis. Thesis. English Department Faculty of Letters State University of Malang. Advisor Drs. M. Misbahul Amri M.A. Keywords Reality Construction Semiotics The Jakarta Post Newspaper has a significant role in delivering information among society. At the same time newspaper is a medium which intensively constructs reality in building public opinion. The press freedom makes newspaper capable of constructing a certain reality in society. However the press policy and journalistic ethics directly or indirectly force the newspaper to apply an implicit or implied way in presenting the news. As the consequence several news crime education entertainment life style and politics presented in newspapers frequently tend to construct the reality implicitly. Accordingly this study aims to know how political news in The Jakarta Post constructs a particular reality toward the readers. The data of this study were taken from seven articles of The Jakarta Post political news especially the Indonesia Election 2009 news from March 31st to April 5th 2009. These seven articles were considered to be important because these articles were published in the election pages (additional pages during the campaign period) of The Jakarta Post published in the last seven days of campaign period that was considered as the peak season of campaign period occupied the large spaces of the pages and considered to be the headline of the pages. Then the data were analyzed by using Triangle Meaning of Pierce and Two-Order of Significations of Barthes. The result of this study showed that The Jakarta Post constructed the reality of political situation in Indonesia General Election 2009 by using attractive headline dictions sentences arrangement spaces distribution comparison of several parties and presenting several different point of views or opinions. Using those several ways The Jakarta Post tended to confirm the positive image of SBY and Democratic Party toward the readers. However the further studies in relation to reality construction semiotic analysis or other studies in terms of language use are needed to be done to give a deeper comprehension leading to a better application that will enrich the language studies.

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DDC

Rs 420.141 YAN r

Prodi

Universitas Negari Malang. Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, 2009.

Deskripsi Fisik

viii, 97 lembar : il. : tab. ; 30 cm.

Bahasa

No Reg

02623/KI/09

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang. 2009

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - SEMIOTIK, ANALISIS

Pembimbing

1. M. MISBAHUL AMRI

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