Revealing the Meaning behind the Aremania English Slogans

and Chants Seen in the Torabika Super Championship 2016 Matches

Proposed by: Damas Dwi Rianto Putra

FAKULTAS ILMU BUDAYA

UNIVERSITAS JEMBER

Table of Contents
Table of Contents...............................................................................................2
I.

Introduction.................................................................................................3
1.

Background of Study...........................................................................3

21.

Research Topic.....................................................................................4

31.

Research Problem................................................................................4

41.

Research Questions..............................................................................4

51.

Goals of Research................................................................................4

61.

Scope of Study.....................................................................................5

71.

Organization of Research.....................................................................5

II.

Literature Review....................................................................................6
2.1. Previous Studies...............................................................................6
2.2. Theories............................................................................................6

III.

Research Design and Methodology.........................................................8

3.1

Type of Research.....................................................................................8

3.2

Data Collection........................................................................................8

3.3

Data Processing.......................................................................................8

3.4

Data Analysis...........................................................................................8

REFERENCES..................................................................................................9

I.

Introduction

Background of Study

Aremania are the third biggest supporter in Indonesia (source:

www.bola.com). Different with other supporters in Indonesia, they are
non-organized crowd who have one purpose supporting Arema. This
twelfth player of Arema, an Indonesian soccer team, plays a significant
role in the successive of their team. They always exist, wherever Arema
has a match. In supporting their team, Aremania express their creativities
to back up Singo Edan, Aremas nickname, for win. It can be slogans
written on banners, and also chants which are sung during the match.
Starts from the early 2013, Aremania always show their existence
by their new and great creativities. The giant flags become the object of
the increase of their popularity. One another creativity which would be
examined in this article is that the use of English in the production of their
slogans and chants.
This research tends to reveal the deepest meaning of the English
slogans and chants by using Discourse Analysis approach which would be
under Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) supports, by Halliday.

Research Topic

The topic of this research concerns with the production of

Aremanias English slogans and chants, more specifically, during the
Torabika Super Championship (TSC) 2016 which are seen in Kanjuruhan
and Gajayana Stadium.
Research Problem

The problem of the research deals with slogans and chants which
respectively appeared and heard in every matches of Arema. Considering
that Aremania is a non-organized crowd, this research tries to analyze
whether they have a similar deepest meaning of what they have written
and sung. This study more focused on English slogans and chants of
Aremania to discover the background, foreground, and deepest meaning of
those slogans and chants.
Research Questions

1. What is the dominant process of Aremania English slogans and chants

during TSC 2016 in Kanjuruhan and Gajayana Stadium?
2. What is the deepest meaning of the slogans and chants?
Goals of Research

1. To discover the dominant processes used in the slogans and chants.

2. To apprehend the deepest meaning of Aremania English slogans and
chants.

Scope of Study

In order to keep the unlimited discussion away of this study, it is

important to describe the limitation of the theories application. This
research uses Discourse Analysis approach which would be supported by
SFL Functional Discourse Analysis (FDA).
Organization of Research

This proposal is organized into three chapters. The first chapter,

Introduction, consists of the background of the study, the research topic,
the research problems, the research questions, the goals of the study, the
scope of the study, and the organization of the thesis. Chapter two,
Literature Review, comprises of previous study and supporting theories.
The last chapter, Research Design and Methodology, delivers the type of
the research, research strategy, data collection, data processing, and data
analysis.

II.
2.1.

Literature Review

Previous Studies

There are several similar studies, theoretically or objectively,

which have been done by many researchers. Nugraha (2013) identified
news about Arema by framing approach, Sukarno (2014) analyzed the
deepest meaning of a poem Dewa Telah Mati by SFL approach, and
Wijayanti (2015) identify the English Aremania slogans based on the
positive politeness.
Based on those three previous studies, this research would analyze
about Aremania English slogans, like Wijayanti had done, and chants by
using the theory and approaches like the research conducted by Sukaro
FDA.
2.2.

Theories

1. Functional Discourse Analysis

a. Textual Function
b. Interpersonal Function
c. Ideational Function
2. System of Transitivity
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.

Material Process
Mental Process
Relational Process
Behavioral Process
Verbal Process
Existential Process

3. Logico-semantic Analysis
a. Complexity Analysis
b. Experiential meaning

III.

Research Design and Methodology

3.1Type of Research

This is a qualitative research, in which the data is about Aremania

(English slogan) texts written in banners, and the lyrics of English chants sung
in the stadiums. Regarding to the type of data, the result would be in the form
of descriptions.
3.2Data Collection

The data would be collected by doing an observation to the location of

the slogans and chants appeared and heard Kanjuruhan and Gajayana
Stadium during TSC 2016. That would be a documentary data, such as photos,
videos, and/or sound recordings which then would be transcribed to written
text, if the documentary data cannot clearly show the evidences. It is also
possible to take someones photos or videos in the internet, if this research
needs some more data.
3.3Data Processing

After taking the (documentary) data, they will be grouped into several
criteria which are considered as the focus of the objective of this research.
There are many slogans and chants produced by Aremania, but the English
slogans and chants which would be analyzed in this research.
3.4Data Analysis

In the data analysis, the theories would be applied to get the result.
Specifically for the slogans, they would be analyzed by only FDA and System
of Transitivity; while the chants would be examined by FDA, System of
Transitivity, as well as Logico-semantic Analysis.

REFERENCES
Nugraha, D. M. (2013). Analisis Framing Pemberitaan AREMA INDONESIA IPL
dan ISL pada Website Ongisnade.co.id. Malang: Universitas Brawijaya.
Sukarno. (2014). Degradasi Moral Puisi "Dewa Telah Mati". Adabiyyat , 1-23.
Wijayanti, T. R. (2015). Aremania English-slogans seen in banners of Indonesian
Super. Malang: Universitas Negeri Malang.