The Use of Pronouns and Coherence in Papuan Ethnic: Critical Discourse Analysis in the Reporting of Kedaulatan Rakyat Newspaper

Maulana Andinata Dalimunthe, Budi Irawanto, Budiawan

2022

Abstract

Media has a crucial role in representing and constructing groups that have been stigmatized, as well as different treatment, as experienced by ethnic Papuan groups. The identity of Papua’s ethnic in Yogyakarta is very interesting to study, because Yogyakarta is one of the cities in Indonesia that is most visited by Papuans for various purposes. this paper is aimed to examine how the use of pronouns and coherence in papuan ethnic by using Van Dijk method of Critical Discourse Analysis. The corpus of this research is the Kedaulatan Rakyat daily newspaper. This newspaper is the oldest newspaper in Indonesia after Indonesia’s independence, and it has the highest circulation in Yogyakarta. When construct the Papuan, KR Not only use the pronoun, But also the coherence. Through the use of pronouns KR legitimize the message that they convey, because pronouns are elements that can be manipulative forms of language. Another that, KR also used coherence as a form of affirmation of the existence of Papua which was so "chaotic"

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Dalimunthe M., Irawanto B. and Budiawan. (2022). The Use of Pronouns and Coherence in Papuan Ethnic: Critical Discourse Analysis in the Reporting of Kedaulatan Rakyat Newspaper. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP, ISBN 978-989-758-618-7, SciTePress, pages 282-286. DOI: 10.5220/0011566200003460

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosop22,
author={Maulana Andinata Dalimunthe and Budi Irawanto and Budiawan},
title={The Use of Pronouns and Coherence in Papuan Ethnic: Critical Discourse Analysis in the Reporting of Kedaulatan Rakyat Newspaper},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP,},
year={2022},
pages={282-286},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011566200003460},
isbn={978-989-758-618-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP,
TI - The Use of Pronouns and Coherence in Papuan Ethnic: Critical Discourse Analysis in the Reporting of Kedaulatan Rakyat Newspaper
SN - 978-989-758-618-7
AU - Dalimunthe M.
AU - Irawanto B.
AU - Budiawan.
PY - 2022
SP - 282
EP - 286
DO - 10.5220/0011566200003460
PB - SciTePress