Emotional Languages by the President Candidates in Indonesian Online News Texts: Appraisal Analysis in the Protagonism Perspective

Emzir, Benedictus Sudiyana, Sabarti Akhadiah

2019

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 categories 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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sudiyana B., Emzir. and Akhadiah S. (2019). Emotional Languages by the President Candidates in Indonesian Online News Texts: Appraisal Analysis in the Protagonism Perspective.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS, ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, pages 71-81. DOI: 10.5220/0008994100710081

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icels19,
author={Benedictus Sudiyana and Emzir and Sabarti Akhadiah},
title={Emotional Languages by the President Candidates in Indonesian Online News Texts: Appraisal Analysis in the Protagonism Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,},
year={2019},
pages={71-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008994100710081},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,
TI - Emotional Languages by the President Candidates in Indonesian Online News Texts: Appraisal Analysis in the Protagonism Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Sudiyana B.
AU - Emzir.
AU - Akhadiah S.
PY - 2019
SP - 71
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0008994100710081