ANALISIS KRITIS TEKS PIDATO SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO TERKAIT KENAIKAN BBM TAHUN 2012-2013

Abstract

The speech of president represents his manivestation about how to solve problems faced by the state. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) as the president of developing country often talks about economic and political problems in his speech. This thesis explores the speech of President SBY about the increasing price of fuel oil in 2012 and 2013. The purposes of this research are 1) to describe the text used by SBY in his speech about economic problem in Indonesia, 2) to find out interpersonal meaning in the text, 3) to find how SBY uses appraisal devices to present his ideology. This research uses appraisal theory by Martin and Rose (2003) to find interpersonal meaning. The writer uses critical discourse analysis approach proposed by Teun Van Dijk (2006) which focuses on semantic-macro strategy to find ideology used by SBY. The sources of data are seven texts of SBY’s speech about the increasing price of fuel oil. Content analysis is employed by investigating every clause in the text. The result of this analysis showed that SBY uses appraisal devices equilibrate. SBY also uses semantic macro strategy to make positive self representation and negative other representation. Ideology reflected from SBY’s speech are 1) Sharing of power among coalition parties, 2) SBY’s strategy to maintain his power, 3) SBY uses capital economy system to decide the price of fuel oil. Keywords: CDA, SBY, speech, fuel oil