A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO PREVENT THE SECOND WAVE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDONESIA
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2021
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WIBEST-II
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The government's choice of complicated language style in communicating issues or cases of Covid-19 risks bringing misunderstandings among the public. The choice of terms which are very elitist will 011/y target certain circles. The government's communication strategy during this pandemic certainly creates new problems. One of the impacts arising from the government's elitist communication approach is the emergence of a11 information gap between the upper middle class and lower middle class which has a systemic impact, for example the panic buying phenomenon ahead of the implementation of the Social Restrictions Large-Scale (PSBB). /11 linguistics, an information (discourse) can be framed with topicalization techniques. This technique is a strategyfor promoting information that will be highlighted. The part of the information that has a higher negative meaning burden tends to be not highlighted. The issue ofthe increase in positive cases ofCovid-19 does 1101 seem too prominent.
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Communication Strategy, Covid-19 Pandemic, Critical Discourse Analysis