2. Estiningsih’s thesis “News Ideology of Suharto’s Fall Event in “After
Suharto” in Newsweek and “End of Era” Article in Time Magazine”
This undergraduate thesis discusses about the fall of Suharto event seen in two articles from TIME magazine and NEWSWEEK
. The first article entitles “After Suharto” while the second article entitles “End of an Era”. This research tries to seek
the news ideologies brought in those two articles in understanding the fall of Suharto event in Indonesia, through its representation on the vocabularies choices.
Both of this present thesis and Estiningsih‟s thesis analyze the lexical choice in conveying certain issue. While this present thesis analyzes the cohesion of the
lexical items or vocabulary in conveying the resignation of South Korea‟s Prime Minister, Estiningsih‟s thesis analyzes the lexical choices without analyzing its
cohesion in order to convey the fall of Suharto event. This is what makes this present thesis
similar with Estiningsih‟s thesis; the analysis of the lexical choices. Then, the thing that makes this present thesis different with Estiningsih‟s
thesis is the further analysis after analyzing the vocabulary choices. The further analysis of this present thesis is about the viewpoint of media, while further analysis
of Estiningsih‟s thesis is the news ideologies.
B. Review of Related Theories
1. Theory of Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis according to James Paul Gee in his book “How to do Discourse Analys
is” is the study of language in use. Better put, it is the study of language at use in the world, not just to say things, but to do things 2011: ix. Later
Margaret Wetherell explains that discourse is constitutive of social life. Discourse builds object, worlds, minds and social relations. It does not just reflect them. Words
are about the world but they also form the world as they represent it. What is the case for humans, what reality is, what the world is, only emerges through human meaning-
making Wetherell, 2001: 16. By those elaborations, it can be concluded that discourse analysis concerns with the analysis of how language can do something and
how discourse constitutes social life, and how social life in the world only emerges through human meaning-making. For example, language can be used to build
reputations, manage social relations among people, or event it can be used to harm people. All of those things are possible just by language, whose meanings are made
by people to do those kinds of things. Relating to the human meaning-making through the discourse, it is important
to examine the aspect of cohesion of the discourse itself. Halliday and Hasan stated that,
Cohesion refers to the range of possibilities that exist for linking something with what has gone before. Since this linking is achieved through the relation
of meaning, what is in question is the set of meaning relations which function this way: the semantic resources which are drawn on for the purpose of
creating text. We can interpret cohesion, in practice, as the set of semantic resources for linking a sentence with what has gone before 1976: 10
Cohesion is expressed partly through the grammar and partly through the vocabulary. We can refer therefore to lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion. Lexical
cohesion deals with reiteration and collocation while grammatical cohesion deals with reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction.
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