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 The satire style was chosen to express satire and criticism explicitly. In communicating on social media, satire is also used in making memes. The problem with this research is how satire language is in meme culture on social media. This research aims to reveal how political satire is discussed in memes on social media. The purpose of this study is to examine more deeply how the satire discourse is contained in pictorial texts or purely texts in social media memes. This research is interesting because the satire humor style contained in memes becomes a practical, absurd political, economic, educational, cultural, and other responsibility that can shift, eliminate, then reverse and bring up new discourses. This study uses a critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough, which identifies that the discourse can be a series of verbal and written words or a series of speech acts. With this knife of analysis, it was found that satire in memes on social media is used in the form of satire and criticism of things that are being viral and how these issues affect social media in the real world. Memes are not seen as silent, passive, and finished texts as they are produced. On the other hand, Memes are dynamic and moving strategies through comedy Satire.

Mantras in some traditions and cultures are closely related to the values of spirituality and religiosity. Mantras can be used as a vehicle to pray and desire in the hope that they can be granted by God. Asihan becomes one type of mantra that has the function of getting the affection of the intended person. Asihan has magical powers that are suggestive that make spell pronunciation have charisma and the power to attract the attention of others. This article aims to describe the structure, context of speech, creation process, and function of the asihan. The method used in this article is descriptive-qualitative by placing text analysis as the object of research. In addition, it is also analyzed the context of mantra speech related to the practice that is a condition of obtaining the power of the mantra. The results showed that the structure of the mantra of asihan from the use of language, compounds, and themes with isotopic analysis has a relationship with the form of belief in God. Meanwhile, the context of speech and the process of creation describes the process of pronouncing mantras and practices that must be fulfilled by spell pronunciation, while the function shows the functional usefulness of mantras by spell pronunciation.