THE REPRESENTATION of PEWDIEPIE in VOX's ONLINE NEWS a Research Paper Submitted As a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement Of

THE REPRESENTATION OF PEWDIEPIE IN VOX’S ONLINE NEWS

A Research Paper submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirement of Sarjana Sastra Degree

Sudirman 1505518

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDY PROGRAM ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE EDUCATION UNIVERSITAS PENDIDIKAN INDONESIA 2019

THE REPRESENTATION OF PEWDIEPIE IN VOX’S ONLINE NEWS

Oleh:

Sudirman

Sebuah skripsi yang diajukan untuk memenuhi salah satu syarat memperoleh gelar Sarjana Sastra pada Fakutas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

September 2019

ABSTRACT

The Representation of PewDiePie in Vox’s Online News

Sudirman 1505518

Supervisor: Eri Kurniawan, M.A., Ph.D. NIP. 19811123005011002

This research investigates PewDiePie’s representation in five Vox’s articles from 2017 to 2019 since they are written with Vox’s new perspective on the Youtuber which previously views him as a simply popular Youtuber. This research employs the nomination and predication strategies of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) as proposed by Reisigl and Wodak (2009). The findings indicate that PewDiePie is presented as a popular yet controversial Youtuber who ‘flirts’ with the right-wing groups and spread their beliefs through similar patterns of actions through membership categorization device, proper name, professional anthroponym, explicit predicates, and adjectives. Keywords: critical discourse analysis, discourse-historical approach, discursive strategies, media discourse, representation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE OF APPROVAL ...... i PLAGIARISM DECLARATION ...... ii PREFACE ...... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...... iv ABSTRACT ...... vi TABLE OF CONTENTS ...... vii LIST OF TABLES ...... ix LIST OF FIGURES...... x CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ...... 1 1.1 Research Background ...... 1 1.2 Purposes of Research...... 4 1.3 Research Questions ...... 5 1.4 Significance of the Study...... 5 1.5 Clarification of Terms ...... 5 1.6 Organization of the Paper ...... 6 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ...... 7 2.1 Media Discourse ...... 7 2.2 Representation ...... 8 2.3 Critical Discourse Analysis ...... 8 2.4 Discourse-Historical Approach ...... 10 2.4.1 Discursive Strategies ...... 11 2.4.1.1 Nomination Strategies ...... 12 2.4.1.2 Predication Strategies ...... 13 2.5 Previous Studies ...... 15 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...... 18 3.1 Research Design ...... 18 3.2 Data Collection ...... 18 3.3 Data Analysis...... 20 CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ...... 22 4.1 Nomination Strategies ...... 22 4.1.1 Membership Categorization Device ...... 23

4.1.2 Professional Anthroponym...... 26 4.1.3 Proper Name...... 27 4.1.4 Deixis ...... 29 4.2 Predication Strategies ...... 30 4.2.1 Explicit Predicates ...... 31 4.2.1.1 Positive Explicit Predicates ...... 31 4.2.1.2 Negative Explicit Predicates...... 33 4.2.2 Adjectives ...... 42 4.3 Signification of the Representation ...... 43 CHAPTER V ...... 48 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ...... 48 5.1 Conclusions ...... 48 5.2 Suggestions ...... 49 References ...... 50 APPENDICES...... 55

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