Gender Representation in Indonesian Language Textbooks: Critical Discourse Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1401.29Keywords:
discourse analysis, text, booksAbstract
This study aims to analyze the elements of discourse analysis regarding gender in the Indonesian Textbook. The data used in this study were texts in integrated thematic Indonesian textbooks for grade 2 elementary school. Gender representations based on micro and macrostructures of language analysis in Indonesian textbooks as the research problems of this analysis. This research uses data analysis methods with field methods with observations and interviews. The theory used in this study is the theory of discourse analysis by Dijk (1993). The results of this study indicated that there are discourse elements that show gender in texts such as microstructure and macrostructure. In the microstructure, grammatical elements are found which include references, omissions, and conjunctions. The macro elements found in integrated thematic textbooks for elementary school Indonesian are context, inference, and character values. Character values are implicitly described in the characters in the text. The micro and macrostructure in the data show the dominance of the female gender.
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