The Construction of Ideology through Syntactic Strategy in the Novel Bumi Manusia

Rahutami Rahutami

2017

Abstract

The author is the carrier of ideological messages embodied through the selected and arranged text. Structuring of lingual units is one of syntactic strategies. Searching for the syntactic strategies is an attempt to explore the ideology contained in discourse, literary works. This study focuses on exploring the ideology of the novel Bumi Manusia through a syntactic strategy that includes: sentence mode, experience process, passive-active, pronoun, nominalization, modalities, limitations, negation, and speech acts. The sentence mode shows how the author accentuated or weakened the concepts. The active/passive sentence becomes a way to show the person in charge of the event, whether good or bad. Pronouns show inter-concepts, agents, or status. Nominalization is used to generalize "justified" concepts. Modalities describes the attitude or the author’s perception of something. The limitations are intended to make a positioning of high or low status. Negation is a way to invite readers to subtly agree on certain concepts. Finally, through speech acts the author explains the concepts that are considered true by raising the general statement and detailed explanation. Overall, syntactic strategies strive for humanitarian values.

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Rahutami R. (2017). The Construction of Ideology through Syntactic Strategy in the Novel Bumi Manusia.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 628-631. DOI: 10.5220/0007172206280631


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@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Rahutami Rahutami},
title={The Construction of Ideology through Syntactic Strategy in the Novel Bumi Manusia},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={628-631},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007172206280631},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}


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TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - The Construction of Ideology through Syntactic Strategy in the Novel Bumi Manusia
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Rahutami R.
PY - 2017
SP - 628
EP - 631
DO - 10.5220/0007172206280631