Representasi Kata ‘Remaja’ pada Media Daring: Kajian Wacana Berbasis Korpus

Abstract

News about teenagers in mass media is usually associated with juvenile delinquency. The objective of the research is to find out the representation of the word 'teenager' in the online media, Detikcom, from 2022 to 2024, based on corpus based-discourse. The research uses mixed methods from corpus data arranged from news articles of Detikcom concerning the issues of teenagers. The corpus has the total of 325,313 tokens and 26,652 word types. 45 words (15 collocations per word class) such as nominal, adjectival, and verbal collocations are taken through collocation analysis which are collocated with the word 'teenager'. There are collocations which explicitly indicate negative meaning such as naughtiness, brawls, gangs, indecency, mischievous actions, brutality, sadism, drunk, being killed, and fight. Besides that, there are also words which indicate positive meaning such as courage, romantic, and overcoming. Based on concordance analysis on collocate data, the category of semantic prosody mostly found is negative absolute in 26 collocations, followed by 13 collocations in negative extreme flexible category. Meanwhile, positive absolute catego,y and positive extreme flexible category have three collocations respectively. Based on textual analysis it can be seen how the choice and combination of words can form narration that either in individual form or in groups, teenagers often commit criminal acts which disturbs public peace. Based on discursive practice analysis, it is found that public opinion about teenagers is almost the same as the online media which is dominated by negative news about them. In the social level, cultural context exposed in the online media, Detikcom, indicates that, in reality, teenagers are associated with negative values. These aspects eventually establish teenager discourse which can affect public opinion about them and how they are treated.