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What is Discourse Analysis?

After reads text 1a, 1b and 1c, My opinion of  Discourse Analysis is The method that has been adopted and developed with text analysis from source of written/ spoken language, such as conversation/ newspaper articles to understanding social structure /social constructionists, because the discourse to maintain /construct their own identity.

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Entertainment

Natural performer

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 04/15/2012 8:39 AM 

JP/Nurhayati

Suyadi, best known for playing the thickly mustachioed character Pak Raden, performs at his home in Petamburan, West Jakarta, on Saturday. Suyadi is attempting to gain the rights to royalties generated by the puppet he created called Si Unyil. The State Film Production Company currently has the royalty rights for the puppet.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/04/15/natural-performer.html

1.      Cohesion

There are connections present here in the use of words to maintain reference to the same people and things throughout: (Reference Anaphoric): (suyadi)- his (suyadi)- suyadi- he (suyadi); lexical cohesion synonym; Suyadi as pak raden, the Puppet as si unyil). There are connections between phrases such as: the thickly mustachioed character- Pak Raden- at his home- the rights- royalties generated - the puppet- Si Unyil, (ellipsis; The State Film Production Company),-the puppet, the royalty rights. There are more general connections created by number of terms that share a common element of meaning, such as ’time’/‘Place’: on Saturday, at his home in Petamburan, West Jakarta. ‘money’ : royalties, Production, royalty. 

2.      Deixis

The meaning of the story: Suyadi want to gain the rights to royalties generated by the puppet he created called Si Unyil from The State Film Production Company.

The story uses deixis to point things of Person deixis: (pak_ raden; suyadi), (his; suyadi), (Si_Unyil; the puppet). Words and phrases used to point to a location of Spatial deixis: (at his home, in Petamburan, West Jakarta) and those used to point to a time of Temporal deixis (on Saturday and currently).