The purpose of this study is (1) to explain the use of grammatical cohesion in the aspects of reference, substitution, ellipse, and inner conjunction; (2) explain the quality of the use of grammatical cohesion markers in the Singgalang newspaper. The object of this research is the Singgalang newspaper with a total sample of 20 Singgalang newspapers. Samples were taken randomly from Singgalang newspapers in 2018 and 2019. The methods and techniques of data collection are language methods. The technique used is the library method by dividing the discourse into several sentences to be grouped and analyzed based on the cohesion aspects, then proceed with the basic tapping technique followed by the note-taking technique. The results showed that out of 212 paragraphs with 602 pairs of sentences with grammatical cohesion, there were markers of grammatical cohesion from the dominant to the least used, namely (1) reference (54.82%), (2) conjunction (32.89%) , (3) ellipsis (5.81%), and (4) substitution (3.65%). From the research data, there are 48.00% accuracy in using markers of grammatical cohesion and 52.00% inaccuracies in the use of markers of grammatical cohesion.

This study aimeds to describe the form of mental revolution in NyanyianPanjangBujang Si Undang which is viewed from six aspects tunjuk ajar, namely faith to God, honesty, intelligence, integrity, caring, and nationality. This study was a qualitative research using descriptive method. The data in this study were the character of educational value from the narrator, characters' utterance and characters' act which werecollected through format of data inventory. The data were analyzed based on Miles dan Hubeman's models through three steps; data reduction, data display and conclusion. There are six forms mental revolution on the characters of educational value in NyanyianPanjangBujang Si Undangnamely faith to God, honesty, intelligence, integrity, caring, and nationality. Therefore, NyanyianPanjangBujang Si Undang as oral tradition inheritance can be used as the alternative in supporting the education from local wisdom of Melayu society to solve the problems of morality and ethic.

This study aims to describe the position of women in the news of sexual violence in the form of rape in the online media Detik.com. this research is descriptive qualitative research. The source of data in this study is the news text in the online media Detik.com on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 which contains news about sexual violence, in the form of rape. Data collection techniques in the form of documentation. The documents collected are in the form of news of sexual violence and rape that occurred in January 2021 on the online media portal Detik.com. The data collection technique used is that the researcher is directly involved in the data collection process. Data analysis was carried out using Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis theory. Based on the results and discussion of the research, it was concluded that news of sexual violence in the form of rape against women in the form of rape cases in the online news media Detik.com published on January 26, 2021 with the news text title "Wife in West Sumatra Help Husband Rape Women for Fear of Divorce" with using Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis theory, constructing the position of women as subjects, not objects. The object in the online news media Detik.com is the perpetrator who committed the act of rape. However, in its presentation, women are still marginalized as weak, helpless, afraid of threats, so they do not dare to fight against rapists or objects. The online news media Detik.com positions the reader as the subject of ideology and brings the reader to the position of the narrator or subject, so that the reader accepts the news as a fact and reality.

The political constellation in the last few years has left a problem in the enforcement of democracy in the country. This is due to the fact that the discourse in the political space takes place in a tight and harsh competitive form that creates conflict in the community. Democratic parties such as Pilkada, Pileg, and Presidential Election not only function as a means of conveying the vision, mission, and programs to be carried out, but more than that as an arena for arguing, criticizing each other negatively, both among politicians and fellow supporters. Therefore, this study aims to reveal the realization of criticizing politicians in the discourse of political contestation and how it impacts on facial threats and language politeness. This study uses a qualitative-descriptive approach and content analysis methods and is based on the socio-pragmatic-semantic grand theory. The results showed that: (1) based on the style used, politicians were more dominant in using cynicism and sarcasm; (2) whereas based on the strategy of his derivation, politicians are more dominant in using straightforward methods without further ado. That is, criticism that is expressed by politicians tends to be realized as a negative evaluation in an explicit way or directly targeting the weaknesses and ugliness of the candidates by using sarcastic and cynical styles to mock, humiliate, even insult the intended person / party so that the threat of face is 'high' and resulting in 'less polite' speech.