ANAK PEREMPUAN MENUJU TWEEN: PERUBAHAN KONSTRUKSI SUBYEK ANAK PEREMPUAN MELALUI TEKS FASHION DAN KECANTIKAN DALAM MAJALAH GIRLS

• Main Authors: , Satiti Ingastrin, , Prof. Dr. Faruk HT
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2011
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/88358/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=50736
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Until today, Girls is the only children magazine in Indonesia (aimed at girls) that covers fashion and beauty articles. This is seen peculiar since fashion and beauty articles is not common for a children magazine. Thus it differentiates it from the rest children magazines in Indonesia. This research is conducted in order to analyze whether fashion and beauty text might contribute to the changing construction of girls subject. Girls seems to imitate tween construction from countries like United States and Australia and incorporates it into its construction on girls subject. Tween is someone aged between 8-12 and its character is known between children and teenagers. The focus of this research is to link social change to the change of girls subject construction that becomes that background of this shift based on linguistic-text research. Furthermore, in order to see the connection between text and its context, and also to the effect it brings, this research based itself on Fairclough�s critical discourse analysis, and especially to Fairclough�s idea on discourse and social change. Linguistics text is the main concern here. This research finds out that although tween is clearly manifested inside the text, but Girls� girls are constructed in the boundary of girls (children) dominant discourse in Indonesia. Nevertheless, this construction does not make it more positive than tween. Basically since it offers only one norm for girls