Vol 6, No 2 (2020) P-ISSN: 2460-2280, E-ISSN: 2549-9017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Critical Analysis of Ganjar’s Speech Covid-19: A Constructed Political Identity Prayudisti Shinta Pandanwangi1, Nurhayati2, Zuly Qodir3* 1Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia. Email:
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[email protected] *corresponding author ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: This paper examines Ganjar Pranowo’s political identity through his Appraisal system; Ganjar linguistic features constructed through his speech for responding the Pranowo; political identity; case of some of Ungaran citizen’s refusal on accepting a Covid-19 religion. patient’s remain body. The speech is analyzed with Fairclough’s CDA as the main framework of analysis. There are three dialectical How to cite: stages to complete his framework, namely the text analysis, the Pandanwangi, P. S., interpretation of text analysis, and the explanation. The textual part Nurhayati, Qodir, Z. (2020). of the analysis will be explained by using Halliday’s systemic Critical analysis of Ganjar’s functional linguistics. Meanwhile, the interpretation part will be speech Covid-19: A examined by using Halliday’s appraisal system, and van Dijk’s constructed political identity. political discourse analysis will analyze the explanation part. This Langkawi: Journal of The article states that the interpretation analysis are both ‘judgement’ Association for Arabic and and ‘appreciation’ from Ganjar shows some degrees of positive English, 6(2), 157-172. polarity and other degrees of opposing polarity. The Ganjar’s political identity represented from his response-speech is DOI: humanitarian-oriented, socio-religiously aware, status quo holder, http://dx.doi.org/10.31332/lk and as a part of the bigger political system’s discourse maker.