GETTING BEHIND THE PORTRAIT OF JOKOWI: FRAMING ANALYSIS OF AN ARTICLE ABOUT JOKOWI PUBLISHED AT BBC

Authors

  • Ni Komang Ariani Universitas Pamulang

Abstract

Abstract

 

Recently, there has been a wide interest to study how media frame issues in news text which then lead to the understanding of how reality is constructed. The current research aims to enrich the understanding of how international media construct a portrait of a national political figures, in this case the current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, prior to his election.  An article titled Flooding Tests Jakarta’s Obama was analysed using Pan and Kosicki’s (1993) framing analysis model. The syntactic, script, thematic and rhetorical structures of the the article was analysed and interpreted to identify what were the signifying elements used to deliver the story. The finding showed that through the use of signifying elements, the journalist made more salient the greatness of Jokowi as a leader than his weakness. In term of the stylistic choices,  words and phrases with positive connotation were more dominantly used.  

 

Keywords: Framing and Reality Construction

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Published

2017-04-06

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016): Proceedings The 2 nd IICLLTLC

Section

Articles