KASUS HOAKS PANDEMI COVID-19: SUATU TINJAUAN LINGUISTIK FORENSIK

Penelitian ini berfokus pada kajian linguistik forensik yang membahas mengenai Kasus Hoaks Pandemi COVID-19 yang beredar di media sosial. Adapun tujuan penelitian ini mendeskripsikan kategori kasus hoaks COVID-19 dan menganalisis karakteristik kebahasaan pada kasus kejahatan berbahasa yakni kasus hoaks dimasa pandemi COVID-19. Data dalam penelitian ini didapatkan melalui laman resmi kementrian komunikasi dan informatika (kemenkominfo). Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik dokumentasi teknik baca teknik catat. Proses analisis data dalam mendeskripsikan kategori hoaks pandemi COVID-19 dengan mengidentifikasi data berdasarkan pemahaman teori kasus hoaks dan memahami hukum sesuai peraturan perundang-undangan. Sedangkan dalam proses menganalisis karakteristik kebahasaan pada kasus hoaks pandemi COVID-19 dengan menggunakan pendekatan semantik sintaksis dan teori konteks Halliday. Hasil dalam penelitian ini terdapat dua bentuk kategori kasus hoaks mengenai pandemi COVID-19 yang banyak beredar di sosial media yakni kasus hoaks berjenis misinformasi dan kasus hoaks berjenis disinformasi. Hasil analisis karakteristik kebahasaan yang menjadi penanda kebohongan berupa 1) penggunaan kosa-kata atau diksi 2) bentuk kalimat pada teks kasus hoaks 3) analisis konteks berisi fakta serta tujuan pelaku. Kata kunci: COVID-19, hoaks, linguistik forensik. This research focused on forensic Linguistic Review which discussed about hoax case of COVID-19 pandemic circulated in social media. The purpose of this research is to describe the category of COVID-19 hoaxes and to analyze the linguistics’ characteristic of language wickedness’ case which is hoax case of COVID-19 pandemic. The date in this research was gained by the official website of the Ministry of Communications and Informatics. The techniques of data collection were documentation technique reading technique and notepad technique. The process of data analysis to describe the category of COVID-19 hoaxes were data identification based on theoretical comprehension of hoax cases and legislation-based-law comprehension. Meanwhile in processes of linguistics’ characteristic analysis on the hoax case of COVID-19 pandemic were semantics approach syntax and Halliday context theory. The result of this research found that there are two categories on hoax case of COVID-19 pandemic which were circulating in social media namely hoax cases caused by misinformation and hoax cases caused by disinformation. The linguistics’ characteristic that became the sign of lies are 1) the using of vocabulary and diction;2) the sentence structure in the hoax case text;3) the context analysis which includes the fact and the goals of the perpetrators. Keywords: COVID-19, forensic linguistics, hoax.