Abstract
COVID-19 has been impacted worldwide attention since it is a serious disease. Millions of people are infected and the aspects of the government have been descent. COVID-19 has become a daily topic for Indonesia’s newspapers. Media has an important role in giving information and awareness about this issue. Critical Discourse Analysis performs in portraying this issue by figuring out the representation of COVID-19 in the headlines. The headlines on The Jakarta Post were analyzed by employing Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic. The data were taken by observing twenty newspaper headlines from The Jakarta Post newspaper on the national column on the first-week edition using purposive sampling. The writer uses purposive sampling because the writer wants to determine the sampling by specifying special characteristics. The newspaper uses a topical theme in all of the headlines, yet the participants of the Theme are different. The participants involved in the headlines were Actor, Verbiage, Sayer, Senser, and Goal as their Themes. In representing the COVID-19, The Jakarta Post newspaper headlines used the Theme to figure out the participant of the headlines. The participant Actor shows the action or the content of the headlines. Participant Verbiage shows the content of the headline. Participant Sayer directly says the content of the headline. Participant Senser shows that people are suffered due to this virus. Participant Goal shows that the action gives a positive impact on something related to the topic. The Jakarta Post newspaper uses these themes in order to examine the representations of COVID-19 in Indonesia that is a dangerous virus. The dangers of COVID-19 can be seen by the use of the participant Actor that is mostly done by the government.
Highlights
The world is suffering from a novel coronavirus
The analysis finds that The Jakarta Post newspaper headlines use a topical theme
There are seven different participants found in The Jakarta Post newspaper headlines
Summary
The world is suffering from a novel coronavirus. This virus found after the World Health Organization(WHO) response to a statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. The WHO declared that the novel coronavirus is called COVID-19. Due to this virus, the world is facing a global pandemic. Mass media seemed to raise this COVID-19 as their topic discussion. During this pandemic, the role of mass media is needed. Media has an important role in giving information and progress about COVID-19. The headline is where the content of the topic will be shown This part will make the readers interest and curious about the news so that they will read it completely. Mass media through newspapers has the power to influence the readers in response to some events
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