Voices, Identities, and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesian Cinema: A Discourse-Sociolinguistic Analysis of Selected Dialogue Excerpts
This study investigates how selected dialogue excerpts from the Indonesian films Tilik (2018) and Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap (2022) construct social identities and distribute authority through everyday talk. Combining critical discourse analysis with interactional sociolinguistics, the article treats quotation as the primary ev...