Steffie Mega Mahardhika, 22014070001 (2011) Discourse on Environmental Issues in Indonesia’s Media. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study is concerned with discourse on environmental issues in Indonesian media. It is aimed at finding out how the experiential meanings of the discourse on environmental issues are realized and what ideologies are encoded in the discourse on environmental issues. The data of this study are the article, news story, and feature about environmental issues published in the daily newspaper, The Jakarta Post, in 2010. In an attempt to answer the first query, the writer refers to systemic functional approach. The focus of this study is on the organization of the clause to realize the experiential meaning of the discourse on environmental issues in Indonesian media. The description of this experiential strand of meaning involves one major system, that of Transitivity (process type), with the choice of process implicating associated participant roles and configurations. Based on the result of the overall analysis conducted before, the writer searched for the ideologies in the texts. As ideology impacts on each of the levels of context, and through them is realized in linguistic choices, the linguistic evidence from all the preceding analyses can be used to make explicit what positions, biases, and interpretations are encoded in the texts. The close-up linguistic analysis of three different texts has illustrated that the texts are rich in meanings: they make not just meanings about what goes on and why, but also meanings about relationships and attitudes, and meanings about distance and proximity. The experiential meanings of the discourse on environmental issues are realized in a subtle way by following the pattern of transitivity system. By relating specific linguistic choices to the construction and reflection of situational, cultural and ideological context, these three texts have been shown to in fact encode meanings about such far reaching dimensions as: the threat that climate change poses to our earth and civilization, religion encouragement of altruism by promising a reward in the hereafter as well as in the world and that living a simple life is the essence of conservation, whereas luxurious life will result in resource depletion and environmental pollution, and the reminder that we contribute to the loss of tropical species and how we reduce poverty on the one hand goals while saving the environment on the other.

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