or apathy. It’s counter idealism is expression of opposition. The songs stories the major economic depression that occured in the United Kingdom during the late
1970s left an entire generation on welfare without hope for steady employement. The issues of the British class sytem, instituonalized poeverty and unemployment
become the background of the song. The oppositional idealism has voices fierce and passionate opposition to a wide array of social realities. The lyric presents
opposition can be seen in Ant-Flag song lyric entitled, Stars and Stripes. The lyric, ‘don’t fly those stripes, those stars and stripes for me’ repeats 14 times. The
‘stars and stripes’ are refers to American flag. Since the flag symbolizes the nation, hence, the lyrics presents the rejection of nationalism, anti-nationalism.
As the like culture has its counterculture, so does the ideology. The word, anti in anti-nationalism above indicates as counter-ideology. The punk rock
ideology is proposed to fight the well-being ideology. Like nationalism, where netizen has to submit themselves for the nation, anti-nationalism refuse the –ism.
The emergence of the idealism is also due to the reality exist in the nation. It could be the social disappointment for nation that cannot support the citizen
needs and expectations.
2.1.2 Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis CDA is the part of Discourse Analysis DA. The point, which distinguishes the DA and CDA, is the term “critical”. The term
“critical” means the analysis of discourse is not only about what written or spoken explicitly but implicitly as well. The term ‘critical’ implies showing hidden
connections and causes. In other word, CDA is not only dealing with study the surface of the text but the deep of it. CDA refers to the use of language in society
or in context, rather than in isolation, as discourse. Van Dijk 2008 defines discourse to be a specific communicative event, in general, and a written or oral
form of verbal interaction of language use, in particular. Hodge 2012: 2 states, “Analyses for the discourse ‘critically’ means to breaking up something,
loosening bonds”. Further, he says that when the critical combined with the analysis thus it creates a ‘destructive approach’ that means a detailed analysis.
Based on the explanation above, it states that the focus of doing critical- analysis is the discourse. In Cambridge Advance Learner’s Dictionary, discourse
defines as “communication in speech or writing.” In the case of communication in writing, it absolutely deals with the text; the language and linguistic. However,
Fairclough 2003 argues that the discourse analysis is not merely the linguistic analysis through the text. According to him, the discourse is also about the social
practices. Nevertheless, he further adds that, looking closely to the people’s speech or writing also needed in understanding the social effects of discourse. In
conclusion, Fairclough states that, “Discourse analysis as ‘oscillating’ between a focus on specific
texts and ... ‘order of discourse’, the relatively durable social structuring of language which is itself one element of the
relatively durable structuring and networking of social practices. Critical discourse analysis is concerned with continuity and
change at this more abstract, more structural, level, as well as with what happens in particular texts. The link between these
two concerns is made through the way in which texts are analyzed in critical discourse analysis”. p.3
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
