Language Style of Opposition Politician Group in Indonesia: Critical discourse analysis

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the style of the language of opposition politician groups in Indonesia, which could lead to relations of power non-visible (hidden power) with the ideological process that appears in oral or written discourse. This study uses a Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis model. The corpus of data obtained randomly from a national online social media are presented in the internet. Data taken during 3 months. The survey results revealed, there are 4 groups and 36 kinds of style language used by the opposition politicians in speaking in online social media, namely irony (21 types), comparison (7 types), opposition (four types), and assertion (4 types). Four results also known of the opposition politician stylistic phenomenon in Indonesia, namely, 1) the tendency to use meaningful diction sarcastic, harassing, bullying, cornering, to the contrary, and a priori; 2) The realistic truth defeated by practical truth, 3) loss of empathy, respect, and civility; 4) language is used as a political tool, and not as a means of interaction as defined in the theory of politeness. Keywords—style of language; politics; politicians; opposition groups; critical discourse analysis; Fairclough; online social media