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people are very bad mentality ”. The sentence may contain certain ideological goal
of the writer, for example, to legitimize presupposition Indonesian society is very bad mentality in the presence of the reader so as the mental depravity of the
people of Indonesia should immediately be addressed and accepted by the reader and audience as a fact.
a.2 Representation in Clause
In this section, the analysis is focuses on how the writer represent a person, group, action, or event through vocabulary and grammar. Through selected
vocabulary and grammar that used the text maker to represent something, the ideology can be seen from the makers of the text.
1. Vocabulary
At the level of vocabulary, is seen the vocabularies which is used to display and describe something till indicating that it is shown or described are
included in a set of specific categories. For instance, if a demonstration done by students is mentioned as struggle, anarchy, or even troublemakers?. As another
example, the vocabulary used to describe what is the Israeli‟s attack on Palestine in December 27th, 20008? How to say that event? Assault, murder, conflict or
dispute? The use of specific vocabulary in the text will also show how a reality
signified in the language and how that language give rise to a particular form of reality. For instance, a poor person or group can be reworded to say poor,
disadvantage, beggars, marginalized people or even oppressed group?. All the
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choice of words lead to certain association referred to the reality. By using words such as the poor person, disadvantage, beggars, marginalized people or oppressed
group, here, the poverty problem is only limited to the issue of poor people themselves. the association is only limited to the idea that they are poor because
they have not lucky fate, or experienced failure effort. In other words, they are poor because of themselves who determine the causes of poverty.
However, in the word group of marginalized, or oppressed group, the interpretation of reality that appears will be different. The issue of poverty is not
only see as a personal issue on the people or to the poor, but it related with unequal social structure. Poverty in these words can be associated as a result of
groups within the stronger community. At the level of vocabulary also can uses metaphor analysis. According to
Fairclough, the use of a particular metaphor is the key to how a reality displayed and distinguished from other realities. Metaphor analysis can show whether a
reality interpreted and categorized as positive or negative. For instance, the military can be displayed in the text by using metaphor of the child of populace,
the child of revolution, or the bearer of the miserable for the citizenry.
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By using the metaphor of natural child of people, military is identified positively as the part
who is high dedicated to the interests of the people. Otherwise, by using the metaphor
“a group who suffering to the citizen” is clearly identified the military as a negative part who hurt the people.
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2. Grammar
