Abstract
This research aimed to describe women’s position in Prohaba Daily News texts based on Sara Mills and Theo van Leeuwen perspective of critical discourse analysis, especially the analysis of actor position, exclusion and inclusion. This is a descriptive qualitative research in which data were collected by documentation technique. The data were Prohaba Daily News texts during 2018. The data were analyzed using Sara Mills’ actor position analysis model and Theo van Leeuwen’s exclusion and inclusion analysis. Actor position analysis included subject position and object position. Exclusion analysis included the passivation, nominalization, and substitution of clauses. While the inclusion analysis included differentiation-indifferentiation, objectivity-abstraction, nomination-identification, nomination-categorization, determination-indetermination, assimilation-individualization, and association-disassociation. The results showed that Prohaba Daily News texts positioned female actors in subject and object position in their news texts. Women as non-marginalized subject found in three news texts. Women as non-marginalized objects found in two news texts. Women in the marginalized object position found in eight news texts. Marginalization was conducted by using exclusion and inclusion strategies. The exclusion strategy used includes the nomination and substitution of clauses. Inclusion strategies used were differentiation-indifferentiation, objectivity-abstraction, nomination-identification, nomination-categorization, and association-disassociation. In addition, the use of certain vocabularies can marginalize the position of women in the daily news text Prohaba.
Highlights
IntroductionThis situation is compatible with the increasing necessity for information
The results showed that merdeka.com news texts influenced by patriarchal ideology because each reporting packaged with men’s ways of thinking and acts so that it would further highlight the concept of patriarchy
The results showed that the Prohaba Daily News positioned female actors in subjects and objects position in the news text
Summary
This situation is compatible with the increasing necessity for information. Mass media defined as a means of delivering messages carried by the communicator to the communicant publicly, freely, and neutral. Each mass media certainly has an ideology regarding the originality of the published news to maintain public credibility and trust in the media. Another side of the ideological effect illustrated as a social practice that shows camouflage or false news. It has an influential role to produce and reproduce the power inequality among social classes, majority, and minority groups as well as men and women who represented as a news discourse
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