In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker’s model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisa...

CDA is an approach to the analysis of language use that, based on the claims of van Dijk(1995), has a social and ideological approach to discourse. Critical discourse analysis gainssignificance particularly with the analysis of political texts considering their role inestablishing force, identity, and political ideology. This study took an initiative criticalperspective towards the rather under...

With the intention of understanding the current academic discussions on e-democracy, a systematic literature review was carried out, in order to answer the following question: What has been said about e-democracy in the last five years? A theoretical classification scheme, known as Ideological Discourse Placements (IDP), was proposed for analyzing the article's approaches. The need for deep-roo...

As a multicultural country, Indonesia has big challenges to maintain the harmony and unity. Nowadays, intolerance acute extremism are rampant that spread group of people. These problems could disrupt national stability inter-religious harmonies. To prevent divisions wars between religious believers, Ministry Religion is aggressively promoting moderation in every line society. The was often conv...

1 Do online political discussions tend to aggregate diverse voices in cross-cutting debate and deliberation? Or do " audiences " for online discussion tend to fragment into ideological echo chambers? In the wilds of threaded discussion on the internet (as opposed to deliberative polls, moderated discussions, and other designed venues of deliberation), networks of political discourse emerge from...