Portrayal of Rohingya People: Discourse Structure Analysis

This study aims to reveal the portrayal of Rohingya people, in an article entitled “Myanmar Troops Systematically Gang-Raped Rohingya Women: a UN Envoy”, published in The Jakarta Post. By applying qualitative approach to describe how language is utilized to portray Rohingya people, the data of this...

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Published inUtopía y praxis latinoamericana no. 1; pp. 506 - 514
Main Authors Puspita Sari, Lydia, Indarti, Yulia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 2020
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Summary:This study aims to reveal the portrayal of Rohingya people, in an article entitled “Myanmar Troops Systematically Gang-Raped Rohingya Women: a UN Envoy”, published in The Jakarta Post. By applying qualitative approach to describe how language is utilized to portray Rohingya people, the data of this study were received from the official website of The Jakarta Post. The news article comprises two broad levels of discourse structure, which are global structures and local structure. The global structures analyze the global topic and the global schema of the news report. The second level is the local structure or microstructure. Este estudio tiene como objetivo revelar la representación del pueblo Rohingya, en un artículo titulado "Las tropas de Myanmar sistemáticamente violan en pandillas a las mujeres de Rohingya: un enviado de la ONU", publicado en The Jakarta Post. Al aplicar un enfoque cualitativo para describir cómo se utiliza el lenguaje para retratar a las personas rohingya, los datos de este estudio se recibieron del sitio web oficial de The Jakarta Post. El artículo de noticias comprende dos amplios niveles de estructura del discurso, que son las estructuras globales y la estructura local. Las estructuras globales analizan el tema global y el esquema global del informe de noticias. El segundo nivel es la estructura local o microestructura.
ISSN:1316-5216
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3784903