Lexical features revealing ideological perspectives of foreign and local newspapers’ headlines about orangutans extinction in Indonesia  

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Moore, Belandina

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 96-100.
Topik: Newspaper; Headlines; orangutan extinction; ideological perspectives
Fulltext: 96-100 BELANDINA MOORE_Edited.pdf (379.78KB)

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The current study aims at finding out the ideologies of the news headlines about Orangutans extinction in Indonesia. Twentynews headlines were purposively selected from foreign and local English newspapers. The research data reveal how different newspaper media present different ideologies based onthe language choice they made. As the issue about orangutan extinction is worldwide recently, this research is neccesary to conduct. Stylistics was conducted in this research as an approach to figure out how language use by the media can reveal their ideology toward orangutans extinction case. This research focused on observing tweleve newspapers’ headlines about orangutans extinction in media newspapers’. There are two problems scrutinized in this study. The first problem is the lexical used in the foreign and local newspapers’ headlines about Orangutans extinction in Indonesia. The second problem is the ideologies of the text based on the data findings from the first problem. The answer of this problem will prove how the lexical features and semantic features analysis signify the different ideologies presented in foreign and Local newspapers’ headlines. The analysis shows that the foreign newspapers’ headlines aimed at highlighting the failure and irresponsibility of the Indonesian government in managing orangutans survivalbility. On the other hand, the significant point of local media is to cover the deep information by not portraying the orangutans case too much in the media. It aims at keeping good image of Indonesia as a one of the world’s richest countries in terms of its biodiversity conservation. In this case, it aims to not to be seen as an economic exploiter country, as government failure and wrong doer in taking away of orangutans survivability. The ideologies revealed in the foreign media newspapersheadlinesare madness and criticismwhile in the local media newspapers the ideology is supportiveness. The total of the lexical features and semantic features analysis show a significant distinction that foreign media newspapers indeed rich in using words, comparatively, local newspapers tend to omit several information by only using certain words to maintain their ideological perspectives. The study concludes that lexical features and semantic features analysis can reveal different ideologies.

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