CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF COLLOCATION TYPES IN ONLINE NEWS ARTICLE ON THE VINA CASE FROM RADAR CIREBON WEBSITE

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the collocation in online news articles about the Vina case on the radarcirebon.disway.id website. The data was collected with the keyword "kasus vina" and involved 197 articles stored in .txt files and included in the corpus. Using a mixed method, this study combines quantitative analysis with AntConc and qualitative analysis. From the 5,460 words generated, the top 100 words were selected and reduced to 57 words of content after excluding the word function. The words are categorized by parts of speech, and colocation is found based on the theory of (Michael McCarthy & Felicity O’Dell, 2005), which includes six types of collocation, namely Adjectives + Nouns, Nouns + Nouns, Verbs + Nouns or Nouns + Verb, Verbs + Prepositions/Expressions, Verbs + Adverbs, and Adverbs + Adjectives. The results of the analysis showed two dominant types of collocation: Verb + Noun (frequency 51), which describes the legal process, and Noun + Noun (frequency 2.067), which indicates important elements such as the perpetrator, victim, legal entity, and location. The collocation found shows how the media frames the Vina case by emphasizing legal and procedural aspects. The media also links important actors such as perpetrators, victims, and law enforcement officials in a repetitive and meaningful narrative structure, thus shaping a directed public understanding.