This article discusses the news relating to the electability of Indonesian President Joko Widodo in the 2019 Presidential Election published in online media. It aims to reveal the style of discourse in media construction about electability reporting on Joko Widodo in MetrotvNews.com. It employs Critical Discourse Analysis of Fairclough which involves analysis of text dimensions and discourse practice. For uncovering and discovering the style of media discourse, the stylistical theory of Ali Imron Al-Mufruf is used. The source of data is the online media in the form of news that reports about Joko Widodo electability in 2019 presidential election. Data analysis is done by referential method to other related reports at MetrotvNews.com. The result shows the discourse style of parallelism used by metrotvnews.com in reporting the electability of Indonesian President Joko Widodo with different time and word but showing a similarity in discourse.

This research attempts to explain a phenomenon that occurs psycholinguistics in everyday life, especially in the environment of English learner. The basic assumption is the English learner faces difficulties in producing English sentence orally, so that problems such as forgetting the language in producing the language could happen. The research will involve alumnus of English learners of English Language Institute LPBA Nurul Jadid domiciled in Jember. From the observations, there are approximately 86.7% of respondents admitted that they often run into problems in the production of English as second language. There are 60% of respondents admitted that they had experienced of forgetfulness in the production of English as second language in the level of the sentence. 80% in the level of words, 78.6% in the level of expression, and 71.4% in the level of the phrase. This study shows that forgetfulness in producing English has a neural factor that is the Short term Memory (STM) of the alumnus. They have difficulty in recalling the vocabularies in English.

This study observed the form and mechanism of power of the New Order in Wiji Thukul’s poem to discover theoretical and factual novelty. This study applied sociology of literature as an approach to gain a strengthening basis about the relationship between Wiji Thukul’s poem and social context during the New Order. The theory of Power by Michel Foucault was used to overview and highlight the form and mechanism of power of The New Order, so that the model of the analysis was analytical descriptive. The object of this study was the antology of Wiji Thukul’s poem Nyanyian Akar Rumput. Based on the analysis, there found that the New Order was an authoritative, repressive, and oppressive government. His power performed through the relation of power and dominant discourse that were spread and legitimated through power networking established by the New Order. This characteristics of power had made Wiji Thukul consistently sacrificed and struggled to conduct a resistance by media of poem. From this study, there could be concluded that Wiji Thukul’s poem was fully loaded with intense and dominant sociological outlook.

This article aims to identify Madurese typology and characteristics within the short story Pelean Klebun by focusing on lexicon “Keras” and “Pedas” to produce new meaning and perspective of Madurese typology and characteristics. This article uses model of Semiotics analysis by Charles Sanders Peirce as methodological process to identify and create a new meaning and perspective on Madurese. The result of the analysis is Madurese typology and characteristics are depicted in lexicon “Keras” and “Pedas”, and supposed to produce two perspectives within the short story. As conclusion,  “Keras” and “Pedas” undergo a process of amelioration textually within the short story and contextually within various researches about Madurese local wisdom that reflects Madurese typology and characteristics.

<p class="Abstrak">The progress history of Black Africans in America remains a slice of the history of minority struggle in the world of inferiority. Racism becomes a brand topic in every sector of Blacks live in America. War and act of reformation as ways against racism are almost routinely done by Black Americans to reach their civil rights as Americans. Although the war against racism has ended, but racism atmosphere can still be felt, and it seems to have been felt by Ernest J. Gaines in his novel entitled <em>A Lesson Before Dying. </em>Therefore, this writing would like to analyze and describe hegemonic discrimination by White Americans. Hegemonic discrimination is a new phenomenon for Black Americans in the Southern. This theoretical foundation refers to the theory of Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci that is applied to see how discriminative hegemony is implemented smoothly and comfortably.</p>