This study aims to describe the language use as representation of mass media attitudes towards Shia-Sunni conflicts. It employed the qualitative method using Fowler’s critical discourse analysis. The data source was news on Shia-Sunni conflicts in Sampang reported in Tempo and Suara Hidayatullah magazines. The findings are as follows. First, Shia-Sunni conflicts are described in news headings and points of view. Tempo describes the conflicts using the point of view of ‘devil attack’ while Suara Hidayatullah presents them as conflicts of religious understanding. Second, expressions such as ‘belief forcing’, ‘Shia cleansing’, ‘devil attack’, and ‘intolerance’ represent Tempo’s attitudes while expressions such as ‘heretical’, ‘misleading’, ‘hijacking’, ‘deifying something’, and ‘infidel’ represent Suara Hidayatullah’s attitudes. Third, based on the use of vocabulary and sentences, Tempo tends to back the Shia group while Suara Hidayatullah tends to back the Sunni group.

The study is aimed at describing gender cognition phenomenon in religious discourse in thematic interpretation (tafsir) of the Holy Koran published by the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. Each interpretation book as a written discourse is different from each other due to author's cognition frame. This study employs a constructive qualitative approach with technical framing analysis. The data are language data (religious text) that are obtainable from thematic interpretation of the Koran of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. Data analysis was performed on the following topics: the origins of the creation of men and women, women's leadership, women and inheritance rights, women and ownership, and women's testimony. The research findings show: (1) The lingual and religious discourse containing gender cognition are present in the forms of words, phrases, and sentences. The lingual form of religious discourse is related to the meaning of technical vocabulary that contains appropriate understanding of the discourse topic. (2) Discourse representing gender cognition is found on three topics: women leadership (nation leadership), waris (inheritance), and women's testimony. In terms of inheritance and women's testimony, this interpretation refers to conditions that are explicitly stated in the Holy Koran. Meanwhile, this interpretation views leadership of the nation as more worthy to be given to men than women. book looks is more worthy of leadership in the countries was given to men than women.

Hadirnya digitalisasi media dimanfaatkan oleh Narasi Newsroom untuk menyuguhkan wacana yang tidak bisa ditampilkan di media mainstream. Salah satu wacana yang berhasil diuanggah pihak Narasi Newsroom berkaitan dengan upaya-upaya pelemahan KPK. Untuk mengkaji upaya-upaya tersebut dalam wacana dapat dibongkar melalui Analisis Wacana Kritis. Ada pun jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan metode observasi nonparsial. Data yang telah didapatkan kemudian ditranskripsi. Analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan Analisis Wacana Kritis model van Dijk. Analisis yang dilakukan meliputi analisis struktur makro, superstruktur, dan struktur mikro. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dalam aspek makro, superstruktur, dan mikro menunjukkan berbagai elemen kewacanaan yang berisi upaya pelemahan KPK. Hal itu ditunjukkan, dalam berbagai aspek, baik sintaksis, stilistika, maupun semantik.Kata kunci: analisis wacana kritis, Narasi Newsroom, pelemahan KPKVan Dijk's critical discourse analysis on the issue of the weakening of the KPK in Narasi NewsroomAbstractThe presence of media digitization is used by Narasi Newsroom to present discourses that cannot be displayed in mainstream media. One of the discourses that the Narrative Newsroom managed to post was related to efforts to weaken the KPK. To examine these efforts in discourse, it can be opened through Critical Discourse Analysis. There is also the type of research used in this study is descriptive qualitative with non-partial observation method. The data that has been obtained is then transcribed. The analysis used in this study uses van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis model. The analysis carried out includes analysis of macro structure, superstructure, and micro structure. The results showed that in the macro, superstructure, and micro aspects, various elements of discourse contained efforts to weaken the KPK. This is shown, in various aspects, both syntax, stylistics, and semantics.Keywords: critical discourse analysis, Narasi Newsroom, weakening of KPK

Argumentation Pattern on Genres of Exposition Texts by High School Students. This article aims to describe the pattern of argumentation in the essays of student expositions based on the theoretical study of Toulmin's Argumentation Pattern (TAP). The documentation technique was used in data collection in sources in the form of expositions of class X students from five schools in Makassar City, namely Makassar 14 High School (24 data), Makassar 4 Public High School, Makassar 9 Public High School, Athirah Makassar Islamic High School, and SMA Tri Tunggal 45 Makassar. The results of the analysis show nine argumentation patterns produced in the exposition essay, ranging from the most basic and simple patterns to the most complex patterns, namely (1) C-D, (2) C-D-W, (3) C-D-Q, (4) C-D-R, (5) C-D-W-B, (6) C-D-W-Q, (7) C-D-W-R, (8) C-D-Q-R, and (9) C-D-W-B-Q.

Penelitian ini bertujuan memberikan gambaran pemakaian bahasa korupsi di media massa sebagai stigma negatif dan terjadinya dekonstruksi makna korupsi yang disebabkan oleh variasi penggunaan bahasa. Dalam analisis bahasa fungsional, pemakaian kosakata dan kalimat yang ditulis di media massa menggambarkan realitas sosial sesungguhnya. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif analitis. Korpus penelitian ini adalah bahasa (kosakata) korupsi yang digunakan majalah Tempo selama 20 edisi yang bertajuk tentang korupsi. Data yang terkumpuldiklasifikasikan dan dianalisis sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa majalah Tempo menggunakan kosakata yang bermakna korupsi dalam beragam jenis, terdiri atas 47 kata dan 88 frasa. Hasil analisis sebagai berikut. (1) Luasnya penggunaan kosakata korupsi menggambarkan beragamnya prilaku korupsi yang terjadi di tengah masyarakat. (2) Kata korupsi banyak digunakan dalam bentuk lain, seperti idiom yang bermakna pejoratif dan stigmatisasi. (3) Kata korupsi ditulis dalam bentuk metafora untuk menggambarkan prilaku korupsi dengan makhluk atau benda lain yang memiliki karakter jahat dan bermakna hukuman sosial. (4) Konteks yang ditampilkan lebih pada bahwa korupsi merupakan kejahatan yang merugikan negara dan rakyat. Kata kunci: hukuman sosial, korupsi, kontruksi, stigmatisasi, diksi, ragam makna NEGATIVE STIGMA OF THE LANGUAGE OF CORRUPTION IN THE MASS MEDIA NEWSAbstract This study aims to provide an overview of the use of the language of corruption in the mass media as a negative stigma and the deconstruction of the meaning of corruption caused by variations in language use. In the analysis of functional language, the use of vocabulary and sentences written in the mass media describes the social reality. The study used the qualitative approach with the descriptive analytical method. The corpus was the language (vocabulary) of corruptionusedby Tempo magazine for 20 editions focusing on corruption. The collected data were classified and analyzed according to the context of the use. The results showthatTempo magazine used vocabulary meaning corruption in various types, consisting of 47 words and 88 phrases. The results are as follows. (1) The extent of the use of the vocabulary of corruption illustrates the variety of corrupt behaviors in our society. (2) The wordcorruptioniswidely used in other forms, such as idioms with pejorative and stigmatization meanings. (3) The word corruption is written in the form of a metaphor to describe corrupt behaviors with other creatures or things that have evil characters and mean social punishment. (4) The context shown is more on the fact that corruption is a crime that harms the state and the people. Keywords: social punishment, corruption, construction, stigmatization, diction, variety of meanings