Language of Propaganda in The Great Hack Movie

Tsalits Syafa'atun Nashiroh; Ribut Wahyudi

doi:10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.67022

Tsalits Syafa'atun Nashiroh Universitas Gadjah Mada
Ribut Wahyudi Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.67022

Keywords: Propaganda, Donald Trump, Movie, Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Abstract

The mass media opposed Donald Trump for his victory as president in the 2016 U.S election because he was considered involved in exploiting voters’ personal data. This issue was narrated in “The Great Hack” movie. This study attempted to scrutinize propaganda message potential through linguistic and non-linguistic (visual) components in that movie and investigate how both types of components interplayed to create the intended message. The analysis was presented across two axes. First, by using Halliday and Matthiessen’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study primarily focused on the propaganda messages constructed through words, phrases, and clauses. The visual components were analyzed in the second step as complementary analysis. The study found that “The Great Hack” movie wants to construct realities that Donald Trump unfairly gained a victory for the election with Hillary Clinton as a deliberately weakened candidate. In addition, the linguistic and visual components have relations to reinforce and elaborate the intended messages.

Author Biography

Ribut Wahyudi, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang

Ribut Wahyudi (PhD, Victoria University of Wellington) is the Head of English Literature Study Program at Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Indonesia. He has published book chapters, among others, with Palgrave Macmillan (2016; 2017), Routledge (2018, with Chusna), Multilingual Matters (2021), Springer (2021), Sunway University Press (2021) and Routledge (2022). He is a regular invited reviewer for Asian Englishes (Routledge). In 2020 and 2021, he was invited by the Editor of English Language and Linguistics, Routledge -New York to review book proposals in Critical Applied Linguistics studies. His works can be accessed from: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-1678. [Email address: [email protected]].

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