Constructing Women: Critical Discourse Analysis in Muslim Tabloid

News has a role for shaping the social concept. News is also leading role for current
trend, espcially women who is always upgreading their physical and mind through
news. Therefore, This article reports on a critical discourse analysis (CDA) that
construct women as a special gender and having certain social characteristic in muslim
tabloid. This research aims to describe what is the linguistic device that is used by
media and how a CDA framework was used to investigate the linguistic construction
of gender ideology. In order to pursue this goal, an appropriate analytic framework
was derived by combining methodologies from Fairclough (2003). Futhermore,
Fairclough uses halliday Systemic Functional Linguitics (SFL) (1985). The data were
collected from the article of muslim tabloid. Then, the data were analyzed by using
Fairclough (2003) and halliday Systemic Functional Linguitics (SFL) (1994) theory.
The result showed that the linguistic choices paly role for shaping the ideal women
representation. Consequently, the tabloid has ideological stance that women has social
standart