A Mixed Analysis of investigating Ideological stances of SBY and Jokowi through transitivity analysis of Social Actors Represented in Their Political Speeches

10.2478/bjlp-2022-002104

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate ideological stances of President Susilo Yudhoyono (henceforth, SBY) and President Jokowi Widodo (henceforth, Jokowi). By representing social actors mentioned their political speeches. It is used to open ideologies behind their speeches by representing the most favorable social actors. This study was designed qualitatively by using Fairclough’s framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL), particularly transitivity system of Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2014) theory as an analytical tool. Besides, by combining van Leeuwen’s (2008) and Haig’s (2012) participant level in order to identify the most powerful social actor mentioned in the speeches. The data obtained from ten selected speeches of SBY (29,675 words) and speeches of Jokowi (21,425 words) of the most important speeches conveyed in the occasion of the Indonesian Independence Day. The data collected during 2010 - 2019. The findings shows that both presidents represented the government as the mostly social actors mentioned in their speeches.  By opting material process rather than the others that SBY and Jokowi show their ideological tendency toward the government. It means that they want to show to the audiences that they are as acting takers. This was done to strengthen their ideologies as the hard-work government in order to get sympathy and support from their constituents. In contrast, the law-enforcer was represented the least representation by both presidents. SBY represented the law-enforcer as Actor, while Jokowi used as Goal of the material process. This indicates the law-enforcer is not main priority by both presidents. This showed that both presidents have no high interest to uphold law supremacy. Thus, both presidents want to be regarded as the hard worker presidents to have trust from the people.