Construction of Papuan Women’s Beauty and Identity as Revealed in the Song Lyrics ‘Sa Perempuan Papua’: A Critical Discourse Analysis

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10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_4How to use a DOI?

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Contextual perception; Critical Discourse Analysis; Papuan Malay; Papuan women; song

Abstract

In relation to the phrase ‘fashion, beauty, body and identity’, every cultural society has their own definition to those words. The concept of beauty by most Indonesian women refers to ‘straight and white’ despite the fact that its population varies in ethnics and physical appearances. For instance, in terms of appearances Papuan people are generally dark skinned with curly and even afro hairstyle. There have been a number of research articles discussing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on song lyrics related to politics, ideology of acceptance, self-love and self-perseverance, stereotypes towards women, drug abuse and advertisements. These papers mostly discussed data from popular songs of other parts of Indonesia and overseas while the ones of the most eastern part might have been unknown yet. This study aims at revealing a construction of Papuan women’s beauty and identity via song lyrics “Sa Perempuan Papua”. It is believed that music and songs are not only to entertain but are also believed to possess power to voice someone’s feelings and thoughts as well as to hypnotize the audience. This is a descriptive study which applied content analysis design. The data were analyzed by using Fairclough’s analysis concept of CDA namely description of text, interpretation, and explanation. The findings revealed that 78% of grammatical aspects – personal references, conjunctions, ellipsis, demonstratives and locatives, contraction, and substitutions - and 22% of lexical aspects (collocations, synonyms, and repetitions) were mainly elements of the discourse in the lyrics. Such elements demonstrate the beauty, quality and identity of being Papuan women.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Adolfina Krisifu
AU  - Servo Kocu
AU  - Adelce S. Ferdinandus
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/07
TI  - Construction of Papuan Women’s Beauty and Identity as Revealed in the Song Lyrics ‘Sa Perempuan Papua’: A Critical Discourse Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, and Literature (COLALITE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 26
EP  - 39
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_4
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_4
ID  - Krisifu2023
ER  -