The potential of discourse analysis in interpreting written languages hasattracted linguists’ interest to further extend the discussion. This study aims toanalyze the headline news of Kompas.com about a massive Jakarta flood occurringin 2019 through the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The studyemployed qualitative research descriptive using a Van Dijk’s framework consistingof three dimensions: macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure. The datawere collected from Kompas.com online news entitled Banjir Jakarta: Normalisasiyang Terlambat dan hasil naturalisasi yang Belum Terlihat (Jakarta Flood: DelayedNormalization and Unseen Naturalization Results) (Kompas.Com, 2020). Thestudy found that Kompas.com used direct diction to present the text and took astand in the opposition to the Jakarta Governor policy. It was implicitly derivedfrom the sentences and paragraphs analyzed from CDA perspectives. The studyconcluded that the news provides information to readers and spread thought orunderstanding of the ideology adopted by journalists themselves.

This qualitative study presents the research results on Pragmatics politeness in the language of English teachers in Islamic elementary schools. The problem formulation of this research focuses on what and how Pragmatics politeness is in the language of English teachers in Islamic elementary schools. The objectives of this study are (i) to describe the form of Pragmatics speech in the language of English teachers; (ii) to describe the tools used in using Pragmatics politeness in the teacher's language, English. The research approach used is qualitative research. Data were collected from various communication events in teaching English in the classroom between teachers and students by participating in observation techniques, note-taking/recording techniques, and interviews. Structurally, the various sub-illocutions were delivered with one core speech unit alone or with a combination of core speech (TI) and supporting speech units (TD) in the form of asking questions, commanding acts, and opening speech units (TB) in the form of greetings. Pragmatics politeness speech acts of English teachers and students are generally expressed in imperative sentences (active and passive), declarative sentences, and interrogative sentences. Second, the tools of Pragmatics politeness in the language of English teachers in Islamic elementary schools found in the speech of the teaching process can function as an action stimulator, a request for approval of the action, an invitation.Keywords: Politeness, Pragmatics, Islamic elementary school.