Ideology of Punk Ideology
Therefore, CDA called as interdisciplinary study. This study interlinked the way language is functioned in the social practices such as exercising power, organizing
social institutions or constituting and transmitting knowledge Wodak and Meyer 2001, p.11.
Talking about CDA is talking about examining the connection between discourse, power, dominance, and social inequality. CDA concern with power as
it is the central condition in social life. The power exists, as there is the dominance of a particular person or group to the others in society. Wodak and
Meyer 2001 explain, “Power is about relation of difference, and particularly about the effects of differences in social structures”. It means people in the high
social structure tend to be powerful than the low social class. Indirectly, the power or power abuse which exist in the social practice arouse the condition of social
inequality. In line with discourse, the distribution of power, the dominancy or the social inequality clearly entwined with the language. It does not naturally define
that power derives from language, “but language can be used to challenge power, to subvert it, to alter distributions of power in short and long term” Wodak and
Meyer, 2001. The powerfulness of language is not on the language itself but by how
powerful one uses it. This statement indicates that the language user has ideology. In CDA, the ideology recognized as the core point to establish or maintain
unequal power relation. As Paul 2005 defines that, a central component of the critical linguistic creed is the conviction that language reproduces ideology.
Shortly, ideology mediates the power and the social practice through language PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
use. CDA regards language as a kind of social practice and an inseparable part of social construction among which ideology serves as indispensable part.
Furthermore, the critical linguistics also assumes that as an integrated form of social behavior, language will inevitably and inextricably tied up with the socio-
political context in which it functions Paul, 2005. The analysis of CDA hardly separated from the socio-political situations in which language produced.
Relating to the research, the CDA is applicable as the study focuses on the discourse that contains power, ideology, and social inequality. This study sees the
song lyrics as the discourse that contains the ideology of the powerful actor, Anti- Flag. Through the discourse, the speakers depict the socio-political situation about
the social injustice as the effect of the superior’s powerful action or decision towards the inferior.