Eco-critical Discourse Analysis of the Indonesian President’s Statement at the 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris

Siti Awaliyah Mansyur; Iwa Lukmana; Retty Isnendes; Wawan Gunawan

doi:10.31849/reila.v3i2.6285

Siti Awaliyah Mansyur Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7621-0296
Iwa Lukmana Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia
Retty Isnendes Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia
Wawan Gunawan Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31849/reila.v3i2.6285

Keywords: Ecolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, ecolinguistics discourse analysis, eco-critical discourse analysis, environmental issue, climate change

Abstract

This study investigates the representation of the environmental, ecological, and climate change issue in the Indonesian President’s Joko Widodo statement at the COP21, 2015. The data was taken from the transcript published by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry's official website. It is selected according to the popularity of the President and to learn about his ecological view based on the way he represented the country's ecological issue at the global event. The analysis was carried out within an eco-critical discourse analysis framework, which started by investigating the ideology using Fairclough's three-dimensional model. Then, the ideology was judged using the ecolinguistics perspectives proposed by Stibbe (2015a, 2020). The result shows that President Joko Widodo’s ecological-ideology can be regarded as 'prosaic: environmental problem solving', of which this study concludes that his speech can be defined as a 'beneficial discourse' that has to be promoted widely to raise the awareness of language use regarding an environmental issue.

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Author Biographies

Siti Awaliyah Mansyur, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia

Siti Awaliyah Mansyur (corresponding author) is a student in Postgraduate School of Indonesia University of Education, majoring Linguistics. She is currently working on her research regarding climate change representation on activist’s speeches. Her research interests are critical discourse analysis, ecolinguistics, and genetic structuralism in literature.

Iwa Lukmana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia

Iwa Lukmana is a senior lecturer in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia with many years of experience. He got his doctoral degree as Ph.D. in Linguistics from Monash University, Australia. His research interests are Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Pragmatics.

Retty Isnendes, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia

Retty Isnendes was born in Bandung, Indonesia. She received her Doctoral (Ph.D.) degree in Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Language Education) from Indonesia University of Education. Her research interests are ecofeminism, Sundanese folklore, literary criticism and expression.

Wawan Gunawan, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung. Indonesia

Wawan Gunawan is a lecturer with many years of experiences. He is a Ph.D. holder in Literacy of Education from University of Massachusetts, USA. His research interests are genre pedagogy, discourse analysis, academic writing, and Systemic Functional Linguistics.

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