- Author: Zahwa Lingua Kitna Viacaesary
- From: Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim, Malang
Abstract:
The demand of media information is an essential factor in a modern society nowadays. People therefore entrust every news which is liberally released in mass media that are seemingly reliable. The issue apparently occurs towards parties who intend purposes to deceive readers using media headlines. Headlines are easy to be stamped in people?s mind since the readers can be given a portrayal of the whole content through headlines. Headlines ease readers to recall information since it has various persuasive ways to be launched employing particular lexical choices. Halliday (1973) states that author?s linguistic and functional choices are the result of social circumstances and their influences on author’s perception. Consequently, this paper uses a cohesion pattern analysis of headlines on The Jakarta Post which expose Kendeng issues which have been popular and involving stakeholders including environment. This paper stands to the CDA introduced by Fowler (1996) who believes that a text can be arranged in particular structures, engagements, patterns implying an ideology or purpose on marginalizing Kendeng society and causing one side benefit upon others. This paper aims to measure The Jakarta Post?s tendency in supporting which stakeholders through ambiguities revealed in the pattern of cohesion analysis of the headlines in forms of lexical choices and word interrelation. This paper unfolds the author power emerging side on headlines that they make to influence the readers.
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