Authors:
Benedictus Sudiyana
1
;
Emzir
1
and
Sabarti Akhadiah
2
Affiliations:
1
Language Education, Postgraduate Program, State University of Jakarta, Indonesia
;
2
Language Education, Postgraduate Program, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka Jakarta, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
appraisal analysis, emotional language, protagonism, news text
Abstract:
This research aims to investigate the emotional languages uttered by the Indonesian presidential candidates in the online news texts. This study discusses types of languages used by the two presidential candidates, describes language using the positive emotion for their groups, and describes the use of negative emotion of language towards opponent groups. The method used was a content analysis. Data consisted of words, phrases, clauses integrated in sentences from each candidate in their direct quotations. Data sources are in the form of online news texts taken from Kompas, Media Indonesia, Republika, Sinar Harapan, and Suara Pembaruan that were published from February-March 2019. Data was collected by coding to sort out what was relevant directly to the reserach focus. Data analysis was performed using the appraisal theory with the protagonist's perspective in Lazarus and Martin view. The results of the study showed that the type of language used was positive and negative speech ca
tegories that were intended for feelings, behaviours, and goods; the use of emotional language for the their self group was widely used positive orientation languages such as happiness, security, satisfaction, and inclination; the language used toward opponent group tend to use negative orientation languages, such as unhappiness, insecurity, and disinclination.
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