A CRITICAL DISCOURS ANALYSIS OF ROBY’S RESPONSES IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE NOVEL BROKEN STRINGS

Abstract

This study employs Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework of Critical Discourse Analysis to examine Roby’s public responses regarding the novel Broken Strings. The analysis focuses on how language is used to construct legitimacy, rationality, and authority in the context of a viral digital controversy. At the textual level, Roby’s lexical choices, grammatical structures, and modality strategies position him as a rational evaluator while questioning the novel’s authenticity. At the discursive level, the circulation of his response through social media and television reinforces his authority and guides public interpretation. At the socio-cultural level, the discourse reflects an ideology of empirical rationalism that privileges verifiable truth over personal or symbolic narrative. The findings reveal how public discourse shapes perceptions of credibility, regulates truth claims, and reinforces power relations in digital literary debates.