Abstract
This is a Critical Discourse Analysis of the collocation of ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’, and ‘gay’ terms in the corpus data of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BNC). By conducting Halliday’s theory, this study aims to find out the representation of three terms, ‘homosexual’, lesbian’, and ‘gay’, also the ideology, from the collocation words. As a combined study between Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, a qualitative and quantitative data were used. By using corpus analysis as the method, the researcher analyzes the ideology based on the collected collocates words. The result of the analysis shows that ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’, and ‘gay’ has a linier relationship. Those three terms are used in different area of public text, which are ‘homosexual’ is more acceptable in academic term and ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ are mostly used in the non-academic term. Even though COCA and BNC show the different amount of their existence, they are share the same collocation: rights, relationship, lifestyle, identity, activist, and couple.
Highlights
ObjectivesBy conducting Halliday’s theory, this study aims to find out the representation of three terms, ‘homosexual’, lesbian’, and ‘gay’, the ideology, from the collocation words
Step 4: finding the appropriate corpus to this research Step 5: Listing the keyword, making the frequency, and examining the frequencies to the topic Step 6: Generating the collocation list Step 7: making an analysis Step 8: Reading and studying the chosen sites that are related to the term Step 9: checking the relation between the findings and the theoretical framework Step 10: refining the question of the research Step 11: making related further corpus analysis (Baker et al, 2008; Hardt-Mautner, 2009; Partington, 2008 as cited in Haider, 2017) While the collocation of words has already observed in many studies, this present study offers the different subject of the investigation
The graphics below show the result of the finding of those three terms ‘homosexual’, ‘gay’, and ‘lesbian’: Contemporary American English (COCA)
Summary
By conducting Halliday’s theory, this study aims to find out the representation of three terms, ‘homosexual’, lesbian’, and ‘gay’, the ideology, from the collocation words
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