A Corpus-Based Approach to Transitivity Analysis of Ulamas in Media

Abstract

This study employed an approach combining critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and transitivity analysis to unravel the representation of Ulamas in online Kompas as the online media in Indonesia. The transitivity analysis unravels 6 process type found in the corpus of Ulamas, those process types are material, verbal, mental, behavioral, relational, and existential process. The result showed that Kompas represented Ulamas as the figures who have important and impactful roles in Indonesia and the figures who have strong relation to the political dynamic in Indonesia.