Analisis Linguistik Kritis tentang Posisi Ideologis Media dalam Pemberitaan Kelangkaan dan Impor Beras
Ikwan Setiawan
Jurusan Sastra Inggris
Fakultas Sastra Universitas Jember
Jalan Kalimantan 37 Jember 68121
setyokultura@yahoo.com
Abstract
Using ideological hegemony perspective in ideological term and critical linguistics analysis, this article discusses ideological position of some national newspapers in reporting rice scarcity and import in 2007. Ideological position of newspapers become significant and important case since by understanding it, we will know how media representation function in society, whether following hegemonic-ideological discourses or making counter to them. The result of this study shows that the analyzed newspapers represents hegemonic-ideological discourses by reporting some critical conditions in society influenced by rice scarcity, a shortage need to have rice import, and some official comments from government, although one of them still has ambiguity in reporting the news.
This article discusses representation and hegemony in charity shows in some Indonesia private televisions by using representation and hegemony approach. As the programs exploiting poverty in Indonesia, charity shows visualize philanthropy interactively and naturally. However, by using myth-semiotics and discourse analysis, we will critically understand ideological motivation exists behind philanthropy. By these programs, the capitalist wants to spread his ideological values broadly to society, not by his capital motivation, but by his willingness to share money or facilities to the poor. These programs, then, become capitalist’s mode of representation to negotiate their power over society naturally.
This article discusses women resistance as the main narrative in Suami-suami Takut Istri (The Husbands Who’re Afraid of Their Wives, hereafter SSTI), a situation comedy (hereafter sitcom/s) which gains vast popularity among the viewers of one of the Indonesian television programs. However, among others, SSTI is a distinct program, since it represents women resistance to their husbands in domestic life; onething which is rarely found in the Indonesian context where mostwomen still experience many difficulties and violence, both psychological and physical. This sitcom in its gendered narratives always articulates some ‘super women’ that can control their husbands in domestic life. In SSTI, we will find contextualization of some critical thoughts about popular media and their genre as the site of struggle in the process of articulation and negotiation which put women culture as resistance toward patriarchal hegemony as explored by postfeminist thought. Using Bakthin’s carnivalisque concept, this writing shows theoretical underpinning a carnival text or practice as site of resistance, despite the fact that through Derridean and Foucauldian reading there is still stereotypical problem of positioning women as the negative subject or as the other from which the resisting women seems afraid of loosing their husbands.
Keywords:carnival text, postfeminist, women culture, resistance, deconstruction.
