Arini Rusyda, 2014
A SOCIAL ACTION ANALYSIS OF NEWS ON 2011 WAR IN LIBYA: REPRESENTATION OF THE US ALLIANCES ON ONLINE USA TODAY AND THE TRIPOLI POST
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE OF APPROVAL ... i
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ... ii
PREFACE ... iii
1.2 Research Questions 4
1.3 Aims of the Study 5
1.4 Significance of Study 5
1.5 Research Methodology 6
1.6 Clarification of Key Terms 7
1.7 Organization of Paper 8
CHAPTER II: THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 News Discourse in Its Definitions 10
2.1.1 Difference between Discourse and Text 10
2.1.2 News as Part of Media Discourse 11
2.2 Critical Discourse Analysis: The In-depth Analysis of Discourse 13
2.3 Principles of CDA: Discourse as Social Practices 15
2.4 Discourse as Recontextualization of Social Practices 17
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2.6 News Discourse as the Analytical Field of Van Leeweun’s CDA 24
2.7 Current Studies on CDA 26
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Formulation of Problems 30
3.2 Research Design 30
3.3 Data Collection 31
3.4 Data Analysis 32
CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Findings 37
4.1.1 Social Actors Represented on USA Today and Tripoli Post 37
4.1.2 Actions and Reactions 38
4.1.2.1 Material and Semiotic Actions 40
4.1.2.2 Transactive and Nontransactive Material and Semiotic Actions 43
4.1.2.3 Transactive Instrumental and Interactive Action 45
4.1.3. Reactions: Cognitive, Affective and Perceptive 47
4.1.3.1 Affective Reactions 48
4.1.3.2 Perceptive Reactions 49
4.1.3.3 Cognitive Reactions 49
4.1.4 Transformations on Action and Reaction 50
4.1.4.1 Deactivation: Objectivation and Descriptivization 50
4.1.4.2 De-agentialization: Eventuation, Existentialization,
and Naturalization 53
4.1.4.3 Abstraction: Generalization and Distillation 55
4.1.4.4 Overdetermination: Symbolization and Inversion 57
4.1.5 Social Actions Attributed to US Alliances 60
4.1.5.1 Social Actions Attributed to US Alliances on USA Today 60
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4.2 Discussions 69
4.2.1 Social Actors on online USA Today and Tripoli Post
from Viewpoints of Social Actions 70
4.2.2 The Distribution of the US Alliance’s Social Actions
and Their Transformations 73
4.2.3 The Tendency of Objectivation and Abstraction
on US Alliances 74
4.2.4 Media Discursive Strategy through Representation
of US Alliances on USA Today and Tripoli Post:
Legalization on War 75
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions 76
5.2 Suggestions 78
REFERENCES 79
Arini Rusyda, 2014
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LIST OF TABLES
1. Table 2.1 Elements of Social Practices 19
2. Table 3.3 The Initial Analysis 36
3. Table 4.1 Source articles taken from online USA Today 38
4. Table 4.2 Source articles taken from online Tripoli Post 38
5. Table 4.3 Actions and reactions on USA Today’s articles 39
6. Table 4.4 Actions and reactions on Tripoli Post’s articles 39
7. Table 4.5 Materializations and Semioticizations
on USA Today’s articles 41
8. Table 4.6 Materializations and Semioticizations
on Tripoli Post’s articles 41
9. Table 4.7 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
on USA Today’s articles 43
10.Table 4.8 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
on Tripoli Post’s articles 43
11.Table 4.9 Transactive Instrumental and Interactive Actions
on USA Today’s articles 45
12.Table 4.10 Transactive Instrumental and Interactive Actions
on USA Today’s articles 46
13.Table 4.11 Affective Reactions on USA Today
and Tripoli Post’s articles 48
14.Table 4.12 Perceptive Reactions on USA Today
and Tripoli Post’s articles 49
15.Table 4.13 Cognitive Reactions on USA Today
and Tripoli Post’s articles 49
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on USA Today and Tripoli Post’s articles 51
17.Table 4.15 Deagentializations on USA Today and Tripoli Post 55
18.Table 4.16 Generalizations and Distillations
on USA Today and Tripoli Post 56
19.Table 4.17 Symbolizations and Inversions
on USA Today and Tripoli Post 58
20.Table 4.18 Reactions Embedded to the US Alliances
on USA Today 61
21.Table 4.19 Materializations and Semioticizations
Embedded to the US Alliances on USA Today 61
22.Table 4.20 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
Embedded to the US Alliances on USA Today 62
23.Table 4.21 Transactive Actions Represented to the
US Alliances’ Social Actions on USA Today 62
24.Table 4.22 Reactions Embedded to the US Alliances
on Tripoli Post 64
25.Table 4.23 Actions Embedded to the US Alliances
on Tripoli Post 64
26.Table 4.24 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
Embedded to the US Alliances on Tripoli Post 65
27.Table 4.25 Transactive Actions Embedded to the
US Alliances on Tripoli Post 65
28.Table 4.26 Deactivation Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions 66
29.Table 4.27 Deagentialization Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions 68
30.Table 4.28 Abstraction Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions 68
31.Table 4.29 Overdetermination Represented to the US Alliances’
Arini Rusyda, 2014
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LIST OF FIGURES
1. Figure 2.1 Influence of discourse on practice 17
2. Figure 2.2 Social Actions Network 21
3. Figure 3.1 Selected research corpus 32
4. Figure 3.2 Detailed scheme on data analysis 34
5. Figure 4.1 Objectivation and its forms 51
6. Figure 4.2 Constitutions of an action that can be
abstracted through generalization 55
7. Figure 4.3 Types of Social Action and Their
