CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF MISTRESS IN THE CASE OF A WIFE KILLED HER HUSBAND OVER AFFAIRS WITH A MISTRESS NEWS

Abstrak

This research aims to analyze the construction of the third woman or what Indonesian
people called as ‘pelakor’ which is an abbreviation for ‘perebut laki-laki orang’. The Data
is taken from news which discussing about it from TikTok. The news was analyzed using
Van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis. This research aims to find out how the position of
those two women in a text is. The research method used in this research is descriptive
qualitative. The data collection technique starts from finding the truth of the news, finding
the previous research, and looking for the related theories. The data are analyzed through
images and the language used in TikTok. The discourse analysis technique from Teun A
van Dijk is used to view video discourse and comments through character elements, macro
and micro structures, and focalization. The research results are that not all women have
the same position in a text. The results of this research would like to show that the first
thing that can be seen is that the man in this news is described as a weak figure. The male
figure is depicted as an object being contested. On the other hand, women are depicted as
wrongdoer figures.