This research is entitled “The Use of Consonant Elision by Sri Mulyani During Her Interview Session with The Banker”. The objects of this research are the consonant elisions that are produced by Sri Mulyani when she was interviewed by The Banker. The objectives of this research are to describe and analyze the frequency of consonant elision used by Sri Mulyani and to find out the phonemes that are often being elision-ed by Sri Mulyani in her interview with The Banker. The analysis of this research was done by using descriptive qualitative analysis method. This study uses Carr’s (2008), Giegerich’s (1992), and Roach’s (2001) theories about phonological rules and elision. This study shows that during her interview, Sri Mulyani uses consonant elision for 26 times and she tends to do the omission to the phoneme /t/ (19 times), /d/ (5 times), /r/ (1 times), and /s/ (1 times).

This research is entitled "How Islam in Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA". The objects of this research are the adjectives that collocate with the word 'Islam' taken from newspapers in the United States obtained from COCA. The objectives of this research are to analyze what are the adjectives used by the U.S newspapers in describing Islam and to describe how Islam is represented in the U.S newspaper. The analysis of this research was done by using statistics descriptive method proposed by McEnery and Hardie as corpus linguistic approach. This study uses Van Dijk's theory of critical discourse analysis and uses the other theories of media discourse analysis from Garret and Bell. This study shows that according to COCA, the newspapers in the U.S. have been collocating the word "Islam" in their news with these adjectives such as 'radical', 'militant', 'fundamentalist', 'political', and 'holy' for 624 times. Based on this finding, it can be concluded that American citizens appear to be so suspicious for Islam; they thought about Islam as an awful religion.

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