Politically Correct Terms In The Jakarta Post
Keywords:
Political Correctness, The Jakarta Post, News, Website, Sociolinguistics
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to find out the types of political correctness used in The Jakarta Post’s news website. The design of the study was qualitative approach. The sample of this study was eleven news articles taken from March to May 2021. Political correctness categorizations were taken from the works of John (2017), Andary-Brophy (2015), and Monashnenko, Amelina, and Shynkaruk (2021). The finding was that The Jakarta Post used: eight PC-Liberalism and three PC-Authoritarianism types; two politeness, one accuracy, three academic, and five conformity variants; and seven euphemisms of discrimination, one euphemism of unpleasant reality, and three euphemisms of people’s lives. The data analysis result exhibited that The Jakarta Post mainly used political correctness for conformity, adhering to the practices of liberalism, and avoiding terms that may be discriminatory. The goal of the study was to provide a better understanding and description of political correctness as well as a model for English language education department students to do further comparable research.
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Krause, W. (2019). Appearing moderate or radical? Radical left party success and the two-dimensional political space. West European Politics. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1672019
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Lichev, V., and Hristoskova, M. (2017). Political Correctness—Between Fiction and Social Reality. Philosophies, 2(3). doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies2030015
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Sirulhaq, A., Saharuddin, S., Asyhar, M., and Sukri, S. J. (2020). Ignorance of Political Correctness on Joko Widodo’s Political Rhetoric in the 2019 Presidential Election Campaign: a Pragmatic Study. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019) (pp. 186-189). Atlantis Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.047
Stim, R. (n.d.). What Is Fair Use? Retrieved June 29, 2021, from Stanford Libraries: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/
Tan, C., Friggeri, A., and Adamic, L. A. (2016). Lost in Propagation? Unfolding News Cycles from the Source. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 10(1), pp. 378-387. Retrieved from https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14712
Tarrant, B. (2008). Reporting Indonesia : the Jakarta Post Story. Jakarta: Equinox Publishing.
The Jakarta Post. (2011, September 24). Online Edition. Retrieved from The Jakarta Post: https://web.archive.org/web/20110923193647/http://www.thejakartapost.com/about
The Jakarta Post. (2014, March 1). The Jakarta Post ranks second on RI most popular newspapers list. Retrieved from The Jakarta Post: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305003557/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/03/01/the-jakarta-post-ranks-second-ri-most-popular-newspapers-list.html
Tschapka, L. (2018). “Political Correctness” – A Threat to Free Speech? Overcoming the Dilemma. UBT International Conference. Retrieved from https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/385
Turetsky, K. M., and Riddle, T. A. (2018). Porous Chambers, Echoes of Valence and Stereotypes: A Network Analysis of Online News Coverage Interconnectedness Following a Nationally Polarizing Race-Related Event. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(2), 163-175. doi:10.1177/1948550617733519
Whitney, D. C., and Wartella, A. (1992, June 83-94). Media Coverage of the “Political Correctness” Debate. Journal of Communication, 42(2). doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00780.x
Zimmerman, J. (2016, June 16). The Two Kinds of PC. Retrieved June 21, 2021, from Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/16/examination-two-kinds-political-correctness-essay.
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2023-03-30
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Anwar, M., Amarullah, A., & Utami Asih, Y. (2023). Politically Correct Terms In The Jakarta Post . E3L: Journal of English Teaching, Linguistic, and Literature , 6(1), 8 - 19. https://doi.org/10.30872/e3l.v6i1.2391
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