International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture Available online at https://sloap.org/journals/index.php/ijllc/ Vol. 4, No. 6, November 2018, pages: 72~80 ISSN: 2455-8028 https://sloap.org/journals/index.php/ijllc/article/view/427 72 Repetition in Indonesian Political Language David Samuel Latupeirissa a I Ketut Darma Laksana b Ketut Artawa c I Gusti Ayu Gde Sosiowati d Article history: Abstract Received: 18 July 2018 Accepted: 30 September 2018 Published: 30 November 2018 This is a critical discourse study that tried to reveals repetition phenomena in political language. We conducted the study by examining the language of Soekarno, as an Asian politician, as well as a nation founder and the first president of Indonesia, where this study was conducted on. Data were gained by documentation method, and be analyzed by applying Critical Discourse Analysis theory that proposed by Fairclough. We found that repetition as a language style used by Indonesian politician, in this case, Soekarno, was meant for the rhetorical device and as an ideology vehicle device. Keywords: critical discourse analysis; language style; political language; repetition; Soekarno; 2455-8028 © Copyright 2018. The Author. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) All rights reserved. Author correspondence: David Samuel Latupeirissa, STIBA Mentari Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Doctoral Program of Linguistics, Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Indonesia, Email address: latupeirissadavid1@gmail.com 1. Introduction The critical use of discourse analysis (CDA) is leading to the development of a different approach to understanding political language. The text of political language, whether written or oral, is a multidimensional structure, and any text is layered, like a sheet of thick plywood consisting of many thin sheets lying at different angles to each other. The basics of a text consist of syntax and lexicon; its grammar, morphology, phonology, and semantics. The layer of syntax and lexicon have included repetition as a language style. This also leads to a particular semantic meaning. The phenomena had appeared in Soekarno’s Political Language (SPL). Soekarno was a founder, as well as the first president of Indonesia, where this study was conducted on. He was a great politician in Indonesia history. Based on the research conducted by Latupeirissa (2018), the main form characters of SPL was repetition. a STIBA Mentari Kupang, NTT, Indonesia b Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Indonesia c Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Indonesia d Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Indonesia