Selasa, 02 Agustus 2011

Discourse Analysis - Another Theory of Discourse Analysis By Sara Mills


Another theory of discourse has been brought by Sara Mills. She focused on discourse about feminism: how women appeared in a text, either in novel, picture,and photo or in a report. Therefore, what is done by Mills is often called as feminism perspective. The focus of feminism discursive perspective is to show how the text bias in showing women. Women often appeared in text as the wrong side, and marginal. Inequality and nasty delineation of women is being Mills focus.

The same thing about bias in showing women also happened in news report. The reports about rape, sexual insulting is some of reports appeared women as the object of the report. The focus of this discourse analysis is to show how women are marginalized in media and how the form of marginalization is done (Eriyanto 2005: 199).

However, Mills’ idea is a little different with the others, she more focus on how the actor’s position appeared in a text. This position, means, who is the subject and the object in a discourse will determine how the structure of text and how the meaning conducts in text totally. Beside the actor’s position in text, Mills also focus on the interest of how the readers and the writers are appeared in text, how the readers identify and put themselves in the story of the text. The position will take the readers on one of the position and to influence how the text is comprehended. At the end, the way of the story and the position in a text make one side is legitimate and another is illegitimate.

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