This research explores how The Washington Post online newspaper represents Muslims and non-Muslims in the Jakarta governor election in 2017. The researcher obtained the data from the article in The Washington Post on May 5, 2017. This qualitative research used Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Theory (2003) approaches in the textual and social practice analysis dimensions. The textual analysis dimension is analyzed using Halliday's transitivity theory (2014), focusing on process type at representational meanings. The researcher collects, classifies, and explores the data. The findings show that the most apparent in the sentences of articles are mental and verbal processes, and there is no behavioral process. The result shows that the Washington Post represents Muslims primarily negatively. Muslims is represented as conflict maker and a winner in the event because of the non-Muslim candidate's offense. The Muslim society is represented as having conflict, and hard-line Muslim communities want to apply Islamic law to the Indonesian government.
The reign of the mayor, Mr. Ridwan Kamil, Bandung had twenty-four thematic parks consisting of a new park and a recap of the previous park. The park had a unique name and its history of the name. The uniqueness of this name made the researcher want to analyze the naming process using a morphological process, namely word-formation. This research focuses on analyzing the morphological process in thematic park naming using O'Grady (2016) theory. The main theory is used word-formation. Word formation is a process of forming new words using several types, such as blending which is a combination of two or more words into one, borrowing is the use of words from other languages without changing the meaning of writing, coined namely the formation of words based on the background of a word, and compounding where the merging of two words or more. Qualitative and descriptive methods are used in this research. The methods aim to create a description of situations and events by using the document analysis technique. As the result, naming parks in Bandung using a morphological process proves that there are four processes found in the use of naming parks in Bandung. There are blending, borrowing, coined word, and compounding. The dominant process is used in the naming park that is the borrowing process.
The research is about the material processes that apply in English clause of Life Insurance. The data are taken from the brochure of Life Insurance in five different companies. They are analyzed based on the theories of systemic functional linguistics focusing on the material process. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. The conclusions of the research are the lexical verbs describe the type of material processes in Life Insurance brochures there are offer, receive, protect, provide, customize, request, access, earn, allow, decrease, increase, lock, change, add, choose, take, pay, buy, build, work, help, and give. Then the role of the participant involved that are actor, goal, and recipient.
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