Symbolic structures in discourse analysis of environmental social life

Abstract

Abstract The problem this research is how the structure of the symbolic meaning in the discourse of social life. The aim was to describe the construction of the structure of the symbolic meaning in the discourse of social life. The data source is the study entitled news of social life online media. This study used the approach of critical discourse analysis of Norman Fairclough, who built a model by integrating together a discourse analysis based on the linguistic and social and political thought, which in turn is generally integrated in social change. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the ideology and power in the discourse of social life is represented in the following linguistic features. (1) Recommended vocabulary that represents the ideology and power in the discourse of social life consists of: (a) modality, which includes modalities “for sure”, (b) the verb which include “make”, “have” and “upload”, (c) nouns include “ATM machine”, and “croquet”, and (d) includes the conjunctive “but”. (2) Features phrase that represents the ideology and power in the discourse of social life consists of a verb phrase. (3) Features sentences represented ideology and power in the discourse of environmental social life consisted of sentences inversion.

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