REPRESENTATION OF THE STIGMA OF INFERIORITY IN THE NOVEL GADIS PANTAI BY PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER
This research aims to describe women's inferiority and interpret the use of women's language discourse in the novel Gadis Pantai by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This type of research uses a qualitative approach with critical discourse analysis methods. Data collection was carried out based on the Fairclough model analysis by dividing discourse analysis into three dimensions, text, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. In this case, the method developed includes a linguistic description of the text from its linguistic perspective, an interpretation of the relationship between processes that are widespread in the production and consumption of the text as well as an explanation of the relationship between discursive processes and social processes. The results of the research show that there are vocabulary and sentences that show the inferiority experienced by women in the novel Gadis Pantai, namely only women, your babies, ordinary people, wives with keris, experimental wives, and village people. Furthermore, the language of women's resistance in the novel Gadis Pantai. Gadis Pantai uses vocabulary and sentences that represent feelings of sadness and anger, so that it contains many names of animals in the language of resistance, in this case using an allegorical figure of speech that equates the nature of animals with their husbands, this is done to show an expression of her disappointment towards her husband-vendor for what happened to her.
Women, Inferiority, Discourse, Language, Resistance.