‘Hedges’ and Media Ethics: A Case in Indonesian Newspaper

Wibowo, Agus Hari; Yusoff, Nuraini

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.295

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“…That is not to say that the project is without ethical concerns. The tabloid press have been Politicians highlighted as providing content that undermines equality using subtle codes (Wibowo & Yusoff, 2014), presents a biased version of events, and even outright fabrication on occasions (Drennan, 2004).…”

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“…That is not to say that the project is without ethical concerns. The tabloid press have been highlighted as providing content that undermines equality using subtle codes (Wibowo & Yusoff, ), presents a biased version of events, and even outright fabrication on occasions (Drennan, ). Highlighting the media's reporting of events within a peer reviewed article may result in feelings of legitimacy towards the newspapers' interpretation of events and actors, which would be inappropriate.…”

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Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014–2015

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Hoyle

2017

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014–2015

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Hoyle

2017

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The research findings indicated that the most frequent hedges usage is intensifiers followed by adjectives, and the lowest frequency categorized as avoidance of strong swear words. The researcher assumed that the result might be affected by respondents' preference to reflect uncertainty and lack of confidence in communication Wibowo and Yusoff (2014) investigated the use of hedges and media ethics in Indonesian newspaper and revealed that the use of hedges in newspaper as an ethics for the media is prioritized significantly, because of the media as news sources for various background people that needs to be balance and to show sympathy of others in presenting their statements. Thus hedges should be used by the journalists to protect participants, persons or institutions related to the news presented.…”

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The Use of Hedging Devices in Literature Review Sections of Undergraduate Thesis

Suaib

2019

ELS-JISH

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This study is to explore the use of hedging device in undergraduate studens thesis, focussed on literature review section. The objective of this study are: 1). To find out the typical features of formal class of hedging device employed by undergraduate students in literature review sections of their thesis, 2). To find out the typical features of informal/less-formal class of hedging device employed by undergraduate students in literature review sections of their thesis. The significance of the research is intended to help both teachers and students in developing the skills of academic writing discourse. Especially for the students and researchers, it expected by this research it would improve their awareness to employ approppriate words or vocabularies in asserting the claims of their future research findings. Due to the qualitative design of this study the instrument applied was document, while the sample theses were taken purposively. The gathered data of 10 literature review sections of undergraduate thesis written on 2015 by the students of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar analyzed and classified using Hinkels' Classification of Hedges. The research findings revealed that Indefinite modal verbs 'should', 'may', and 'able' as the typical features of formal class of hedging device, meanwhile the definite modal verbs 'can ', 'will' and 'must' were the typical feature of informal/less-formal class hedging device.

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“…'Hedging devices' or 'hedges' can also be used as a means to reduce conflict. Hedges constitute realization of journalistic ethics (Wibowo & Yusoff, 2014). Watson and Hill (1997: 135) state that hedges' are linguistic units expressing the uncertainty of the speakers.…”

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“…By this way, the image of the institution remains good, as it is not broken up by the bad-mannered soldier or police. In short, impersonation constitutes an ethics which turn out to be the strategic way to maintain harmonious relationships among the society (Wibowo & Yusoff, 2014).…”

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The Language of Media Supporting Peace Journalism

Wibowo¹

2018

JKMJC

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This paper attempts to explore the role of the language of media, particularly newspapers, in making peace of a heterogeneous society in Indonesia. As one of mass media, newspapers can play a significant role to create peace of the society. In reporting news, the newspaper reporters might use some means of language aspects to avoid the use of expressions which potentially provoke conflict. Striving to prevent conflict among parties means that the media have supported peace journalism. This paper examines the employment of linguistic devices used by the journalists of Indonesian newspapers in endeavours to lessen the potency of conflict and to build harmony of the society. The efforts to create peace in Indonesia should constantly maintain, since Indonesia is a country with multi ethnics, religions, languages, and social backgrounds. Maintaining the peaceful condition of the country is the task of Indonesian journalists. The data were taken from two regional Indonesian newspapers published in Semarang and Surakarta, Jawa Tengah, i.e., Suara Merdeka and Solopos. The result shows that the newspapers, to some extent, exploit the linguistic devices to create harmony through unnamed body/society, general expression, implicit expression, and hedging devices. As the focus of the study is on language point of view, it will be more fruitful if this study is completed with the study from communication and journalism point of view.

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‘Hedges’ and Media Ethics: A Case in Indonesian Newspaper

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Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014–2015

Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014–2015

The Use of Hedging Devices in Literature Review Sections of Undergraduate Thesis

The Language of Media Supporting Peace Journalism

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