AN ECOCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIC DISCOURSE RHETORIC IN HBO’S CHERNOBYL MINISERIES
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Discourse is essential in our daily lives as they cover all types of communication such, as speaking, writing and non verbal interactions. Because of that this researcher conducts this ecocritical research by analysing toxic discourse rhetoric in dialogues and screen captures by using theory from Lawrence Buell (2001). This research only focus on types of toxic discourse rhetoric found in all five (5) episodes of HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries. The main objective of this research is to find out how often HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries utilizes the rhetoric of toxic discourse and to find out the kind of toxic discourse rhetoric that have the most appearances. The data was found by watching all five (5) episodes of HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries by using qualitative method with documentation technique. The researcher has founded 56 rhetoric of toxic discourse in HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries. This research showed that all of the 4 types of toxic discourse rhetoric was found. All of them are the rhetoric of the myth of betrayed Edens (2 data), a world without refuge from toxic penetration rhetoric (25), the threat of hegemonic oppression rhetoric (23) and the ghoticization of environmental exposé (2). Based on the data in this research the most dominant appearance is the rhetoric of a world without refuge from toxic penetration and the least amount of appearance is the rhetoric of the myth of betrayed Edens.
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