Analisis Semiotika Karikatur Tiga Malarangeng Pada Sampul Depan Majalah Tempo Edisi 17-23 Desember 2012

Karikatur merupakan tanggapan atau opini secara subjektif terhadap suatu kejadian, tokoh, seratus soal, pemikiran atau pesan tertentu. Gambar karikatur merupakan symbolic speech (komunikasi tidak langsung) artinya bahwa penyampaian pesan yang terdapat dalam gambar karikatur tidak dilakukan secara langsung tetapi dengan menggunakan bahasa simbol. Dengan kata lain makna yang terkandung dalam gambar karikatur adalah makna yang terselubung. Simbol-simbol pada gambar karikatur tersebut merupakan simbol yang disertai maksud (signal) yang dinamakan dengan sadar oleh orang yang mengirimnya (si pengirim) dan mereka yang menerimanya (si penerima). (Panuti & Zoest, 2003) Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk melakukan kajian semiotika mengenai makna dan simbol-simbol yang terdapat dalam karikatur sampul depan majalah Titanic Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan analisis semiotika Pierce yang menganalisis mengenai representasi makna intepretan, sign, objek serta ideologi. Dalam penelitian ini peneliti menggunakan metode semiotika Pierce karena penulis menganggap metode ini memiliki kerangka analisis yang mampu membantu penulis menjawab tujuan dari penelitian ini. Selain karena ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif, teks itu bersifat polisemi (multimakna) dan arbitrer (manasuka). Sehingga tak heran bila hasil penelitian ini sangat subjektif sesuai interpretasi dan pengetahuan penulis terhadap teks. Teknik kajian teks ini dilakukan dengan cara menelaah materi-materi terkait dengan permasalahan yang terdapat dalam karikatur sampul Tempo yang menampilkan sosok 3 Malarangeng. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah studi pustaka dan penelusuran data online. Objek yang dianalisis merupakan karikatur Tiga Mallarangeng pada halaman depan majalah Tempo Hasil representasi dijelaskan bahwa Tiga Mallarangeng menikmati hasil kerjanya dengan memegang gulungan dollar dan memegang kantung uang di atas perahu yang di arah kiri dan kanan terlihat alat pancing. Hasil analisis ideologi bahwa adanya pencitraan di dalamnya. Karikatur tersebut merupakan pandangan umum sebuah media cetak terhadap suatu permasalahan. Kemudian permasalahan yang diambil oleh Tempo adalah permasalah kasus korupsi yang sedang hangat-hangatnya di tahun 2012.

Mapping Law and Performance

In the past decade or so, there has been a substantial body of work in law and humanities in which “performance” serves as a key word, an umbrella term for a highly diverse set of inquiries: the examination of trials as theater, courtroom testimony, improvisatory judicial interpretation, embodied cognition, “acoustic jurisprudence,” adversarial agonism, physiognomic credibility, video representation, symbolic “speech,” police encounters, terrorism, the production of legal identities, and more. This chapter explores the meaning of “performance” in such studies, and recounts the author’s attempts to map the terrain: to identify the separate kinds of inquiry that make up the study of law and performance; to offer a taxonomic overview of the whole. It describes the challenges the author encountered in attempting to do so, and what these reveal of the issues facing the study of law and performance. The last section reflects on some of the risks of interdisciplinary study generally, and the potential benefits that might accrue to law and performance if it resists becoming a “field” and remains, instead, a contingent conjunction.

Freedom of Symbolic Speech in the Context of Memory Wars in Eastern Europe

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The Appropriation of Symbolic Language in Worldview Education through Bibliodrama

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