THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN POST-CIVIL WAR MUSLIM SOCIETY

Saiful Akmal

Abstract


This paper examines post-conflict Aceh electioneering in 2012 by the ex-GAM politicians. It deals with their idiosyncratic political rhetoric campaigned in the selected Aceh media before the election. It does not only analyze the narrow, micro and mechanic sense of linguistics relevance to politics, but also the wider, macro and systematic and strategic use of discourse. The language of ex-GAM political campaign appears to be engineered, either partly or entirely, to increase their possibility to win the pre-election campaign in post-civil war Aceh. The paper focuses on the actor of rhetoric (rhetor) – their strategies, similarities and differences canvassed to printed newspapers and portal news. Its findings does not always generalize and applicable to other timing of election. Nevertheless, it is also possible that such accounts illustrate the generic repeated picture of prior elections and to some degree, of the next elections too.

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language of political campaign; post-civil war; rhetoric, discourse

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/aricis.v1i0.981

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