Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Analysis of Language

Critical Analysis of Ganjar’s Speech Covid-19: A Constructed Political Identity

“…Thus, based on the series of events above, this paper analyzes Ganjar's speech by using the method concept of CDA (Mair & Fairclough, 1997) which means incorporating the three frameworks of analysis, that are 1) text analysis, 2) interpretation of textual analysis, and 3) the explanation. The textual part, Fairclough argues, the text does correlate to the written or spoken language, although it does not necessarily limited to that extend (Mair & Fairclough, 1997). The function of the text within the critical discourse spectrum is what it is "within" the text that carries specific linguistic attributes as a mark of "bridge" among social events happening in the world.…”

“…Fairclough departs by stating that critical discourse has ideally explained through Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004). There are three technical names to represent the metafunction system; they are 1) experiential (to construe experience), 2) interpersonal (to enact social relationships), and 3) textual (to create relevance to context) (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004;Mair & Fairclough, 1997).…”

“…The interpretation analysis, as stated by Fairclough, is an essential part of critical discourse analysis, since the term discourse analysis alone has already been a higher subject to comprehend the role of texts in sociocultural praxis (Mair & Fairclough, 1997). Thus, the work of critical discourse analysis should be the interconnecting analysis of how text is produced, how the text is distributed, and how the text is consumed within the discursive events.…”

“…The third framework within this method is the explanation analysis between the relation of power or domination from certain social class and reproduction of domination that intertwined with existing ideology (Mair & Fairclough, 1997). The discussion about Ganjar's political identity may be correlated to ideological purposes (Abdi & Basarati, 2018;Retzlaff & Gänzle, 2008) to obtain legitimation from public consent within the range of socio-political affairs.…”

“…Concerning "alternative information source" such as in media discourse, social media has become a new source of information (Gil De Zúñiga et al, 2009;Mair & Fairclough, 1997) where the public put their trust concerning many issues from politics, economics, educations, until health, social media has changed the behavior of the public in consuming information (Zúñiga et al, 2013) and it becomes the primary medium to convey all interests or messages from all actors, including the unidentified ones (Kovach, B., Rosenstiel, 2010). In the era of mass consumption of social media, where the freedom of expression is highly upheld (Weeks et al, 2017), there must be specific points of its downfall to humanity.…”