THE EXCLUSION STRATEGIES OF THE REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL ACTORS IN THE CASE OF FPIS REJECTION TO LADY GAGAS PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIA ON THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

Author

Muhammad Rayhan Bustam, S.S., M.Hum.

Abstrak

This study determined the exclusion strategies used by one of English language newspapers in Indonesia, The Jakarta Post Newspaper, in representing the social actors in the case of FPI’s rejection to Lady Gaga’s performance in Indonesia. Exclusion strategies which are strategies of discourse used by mass media are the process of omitting social actors from the news. These strategies are a part of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) tools in analyzing representation of social actors which is a theory put forward by Theo van Leeuwen. According to Theo van Leeuwen (2008:29) there are two kinds of exclusion, suppression and backrounding. Suppression is the exclusion that leaves no traces in the representation, excluding both the social actors and their activities, whereas backgrounding is the exclusion that leaves traces in the representation. Suppression might be linguistically realized by passive agent deletion, nominalization and process of nouns, and non-finite clauses. Backgrounding might be realized by simple ellipses in nonfinite clauses with -ing and –ed participles, in infinitival clauses with to, and in paratactic clauses. The results of the study show that the exclusion strategies mostly used are suppressions; there are 95% of suppressions. The suppressions are linguistically realized by passive agent deletion which is 10%, 80% by nominalization and process Nouns, and 5% by non-finite clauses. The Jakarta Post Newspaper only used 5% of backgrounding in the news. Almost 90% of exclusion strategies go to the pro social actors of this case. The Pro group is excluded because The Jakarta Post Newspaper wants to drive the readers’ attention to the other actor (the victim) which here is Lady Gaga and her supporters as the Con group.