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KENANGA: WOMEN’S CULTURE (AN ANALYSIS OF NOVEL, A WORK OF FEMALE AUTHOR WITH PRESPECTIVE ELAINE SHOWALTER CULTURE MODEL)
Get PDFIn understanding the women’s culture, historians see and distinguish various aspects of identity, roles, relationships, attitudes and pictures of women's lives formed in the culture of society in general. Female writers also express and present the women’s culture in their works. This study discusses how the women’s culture is represented in a novel written by a woman. A work that is written with attention to the cultural elements of women that presents women's lives through experience and narration. The object analyzed in this study is Oka Rusmini's novel entitled "Kenanga" which tells the women’s lives with Balinese cultural background. Oka Rusmini, the author is also a Balinese woman. The novel is analyzed by using the approach of Subjectivity (Spivak,1994) and Elaine Showalter cultural model (Showalter,1982) especially women's writing and women's culture model. This study shows that women authors represent experiences and women's issues in their works. Women authors also write down their responses and perspectives on the patriarchal culture that surrounds their lives with a Balinese cultural setting. Oka Rusmini also conveys resistance of social and cultural constructions which make women become subordinate through the attitude and life of the characters in her novel
PROPAGATING CRITICAL READING AND CREATIVE WRITING LITERACY USING READER’S DIGEST MAGAZINES
Get PDFReading and writing have been seen as solitary, boring and individualized among ESL learners. Hence, teaching and learning critical reading and creative writing, can pose even a challenge to educators and learners of a second language, at all levels. The challenge is even greater in the digital era where students would rather spend time online on gadgets than flipping pages of magazines. As a receptive skill, reading a textbook outside the classroom would be next to impossible. This paper shares how second language educators can use an authentic material like Reader’s Digest magazines to propagate fun, engaging and outdoor critical reading and creative writing activities. It incorporates various elements such as team building, collaborative learning and problem-based learning while engaging students to learn vocabulary, sentence construction and paragraph writing in an outdoor setting
EMPHASIZING THE CULTURAL AWARENESS IN TRANSLATION TEACHING
Get PDFLanguage is a means of communication closely related to social and cultural values. Translation as an intelligent process is a human activity that bridging the cultures. However it is not always easy when translator encounter the culture-items. This paper provided short overviewabout the emphasizing of culture awareness in translation teaching. The participants are the students of Law and Economic Faculty of Universitas Al-Azhar, Medan, Indonesia. Throughout the classroom activities: theories, discussion, practicing and response to questionnaire, the students encouraging to aware the cultural influences in translation. To do so, they need more practice with culture specific items that related to their subjects. Students were motivated in learning translation when they involve in discussion and using internet as the comparable source. By emphasizing the importance of cultural awareness, the students impulse to learn more about other culture as well as improving their target language competence to avoid mistranslation
THE LOCAL VALUE OF BADONCEK FOR POLITENESS ASPECT IN MINANG COMMUNITIES WEST SUMATRA
Get PDFThis study analysis talking about the local value of Communication is the important thing in humanities sociality. The main part of the sociality life. Nowadays, doing communication is strongly influenced by the culture when communication is stated. This paper discusses on the relationship politeness strategy and Minang culture in doing communication. The Minang here was limited in the badoncek from wedding ceremony in Minang culture is a spontaneous social action and suitable with the needs of the moment. Indeed, the theory that used in politeness strategy was taken from Brown and Levinson theory. This theory was elaborated become four types of politeness strategy. They are bald on strategy, positive strategy, negative strategy, and off record strategy. The prior aim in this paper is to describe what types of politeness strategy that used in Minang wedding ceremony in their social life and to elaborate the types of politeness strategies applied by qualitative research
CONVERSATION AND COMMUNITY BUILDING IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Get PDFThe thematic research on Jane Austen’s novels has been widely carried out, including marriage, gender, morality, politics, etc. The conception of community is also an important theme for her novels are set in a period when the notion of community is conceived and reinforced in the West. It is a transitional age that witnesses the change from the 18th century when the feudal aristocracy controls the agricultural economy to the 19th century which is dominated by the middle class as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the theme of community has not got enough critical attention and its research is sparse. Thus, this dissertation seeks to explore Austen’s contribution to the conception of community in Pride and Prejudice. Austen’s imagination of community is effectively displayed in Pride and Prejudice and conversation serves as a key approach. The Community is built at two levels, namely, familial level and social level. By means of conversation, a family bond based on mutual affirmation, which is the core of community building, is forged; and a community of spirit, the highest form of community, is established among social interactions outside families in two social spaces– Meryton and Pemburley. A stereoscopic vision of a community built by conversation emerges when the three levels are closely intertwined
THE POSITION OF DAUGHTERS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INHERITANCE IN BATAK TOBA AND MINANGKABAU COMMUNITIES
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to know how the distribution of inheritance and the position of daughters in the distribution of inheritance in Batak Toba and Minangkabau communities. This research uses descriptive qualitative research method. The data of this research consist of primary data and secondary data. Primary data was taken from the interview result of researcher with informant from both tribes, while secondary data was taken through literature study from journals, books and literature related to the problem under study. The results of this research show that in the Batak Toba community, daughters do not get a share of inheritance. The kinship system of the Batak Toba community embraces the patrilineal system, in which the lineage is withdrawn from the father's clan so that the inheritance belongs only to the sons. All heritages can only be passed on to the sons. But daughters can get the inheritance that is called holong ate. Holong ate is only given to married girls. The wealth gift is considered a gift of a father to his daughter. While in the Minangkabau community that embraces the matrilineal family system, where the familial system is withdrawn from the mother line, the heritage treasures are only given to daughters. Sons do not have high treasures and the low treasure (search treasure) is given to children and wives
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN EVANESCENCE’S ALBUM ANYWHERE BUT HOME
Get PDFThe research deals with figurative language, aimed to identify the types and interpret the ideas or messages implicitly or explicitly expressed with theoretical based proposed by Kennedy and Giola (2005) that figurative language is an expression of comparison that relies not on its literal meaning, but rather on its connotations. Figurative language is also commonly used in song lyrics and this is referred to as the object of the research, that is the song lyrics taken Evanescence’s album Anywhere but Home. This album consists of five songs: Everybody’s Fool, Going under, Haunted, Taking over Me and Thoughtless. Qualitative content analysis as the use of replicable and valid method for making specific inferences from text to other states or properties of its source under Descriptive Qualitative Approach, pioneered by Krippendorff (2000) is applied here. The results show that Hyperbole, Repetition, Personification, Metaphor, Erotesis, Merism, referring to Kosasih’s category of figurative language are found in the song album with various meanings. (2007
THEMATIC PROGRESSION ANALYSIS IN BUSINESS COLUMN OF THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER
Get PDFThis study deals with thematic progression analysis in business column especially in a newspaper. The objectives of this study are to investigate the pattern of thematic progression in business column and to find out the most dominant used of thematic progression in business column in delivering the message. Thematic progression is used by the writer for linking the themes and rhemes in a clause in order to make the reader understand the message well. Theme is the point of departure for what the speaker is going to say. Meanwhile, rheme is the reminder of the message, the part in which the theme is misleading (Halliday, 1994: 37-38). This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative study (Miles & Hubberman, 2014). The data of this study were taken from The Jakarta Post Newspaper especially the business column. Based on the analysis, it was found that the four types of thematic progression were used in delivering the message in different occurrences. Constant theme was used 11 times with the percentage 33,3%; linear theme was used 19 times with the percentage 57,6%; split rheme was used 2 times with the percentage 6,06% and derived pattern was used only once with the percentage 3%. From the analysis also found that the most thematic progression that used was linear theme pattern. The results of this study are to help the journalist in composing a coherent and cohesive business text and to make the reader easier to grasp the meaning of the business text
MULTIMODAL METAPHOR IN ADVERTISEMENT
Get PDFMetaphor based on the cognitive linguistic view can be defined as a tool which allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another. What usually happens is that we use a physical. What we need to comprehend, is the target domain. It means that human cognition is organized in conceptual schema. Rodriguez (2015) stated that multimodal needs a mental comprehension process which differs from processing visual or verbal concepts alone. Metaphor has been used in many advertising. The metaphor can be interpreted differently from one to others. This paper was to present an analysis of visual metaphors, and to illustrate the existence of a possible of multimodal metaphors in advertising. Multimodal needs a mental comprehension process which differs from processing visual or verbal concepts alone. In this case this study only focuses on the analysis of multimodality metaphor which found in some advertisements. In analyzing the multimodal metaphors in commercial advertising, corpus private static adverts from the TV were selected. All of the pictures presented are a verbal part
THE EFFECT OF COMMUNICATION APPROACH ASSISTED AUDIO VISUAL TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING ACHIEVEMENT
Get PDFThe objective of this study is to investigate The Effect of Communication Approach Assisted Audio Visual as Media on the Students’ Achievement in listening comprehension. This is an experimental research which applied descriptive quantitative method to describe the result (Syahrum, 2012: 34). This study was conducted at Madrasah Aliyah, islamic bording school of Darul Qur’an. The population of this research was tenth grade. The instruments for collecting data in this research was written test in form multiple choice test, consist of 20 questions. Pre-test and post-test were conducted in both, experimental and control group. The finding showed that the students who are taught by using Communication Approach Assisted Audio Visual as Media got higher score than those who taught by using audio media. The test result showed that there was significant effect of using Communication Approach Assisted Audio Visual as Media on the students’ achievement in listening comprehension which was proven for the result of analysis, was higher than (2,47 > 2,024) at α 0,05, and df 38. It means the hypothesis alternative was accepted