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GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR REPRESENTATIONS AND TRANSGRAMMATICAL SEMANTIC DOMAINS IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDONESIA
Get PDFGrammatical metaphor refers to the coding of meaning or experience in the manner as if the meaning or experience were coded by another lexicogrammatical coding. Metaphorical representation implies that there are two manners of coding, namely the congruent or literal and incongruent or metaphorical coding. Transgrammatical semantic domains extends meaning by a range of grammatical units. Transgrammatical semantic coding implies that agnated meanings are realized by more than one semantic unit. Grammtical metaphor representation inherently contains transgrammatical coding. This paper addresses grammatical metaphor commonly used in texts of science, technology and academics, which are very difficult for Indonesian students to understand and translate into good bahasa Indonesia (BI). By applying knowledge or competence of gramatical metaphor and transgrammatical semantic domain Indonesian students are expected to effectively learn the meaning of English text of science, technology and academics and to translate the texts into good BI.
POSTHUMAN IN JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE: VIRTUAL IDOL HATSUNE MIKU
Get PDFIdol is a popular young entertainer in Japan. The development and changes of idol’s generation are pretty fast because of the fan’s demands for perfect idols that meet their desire. The strategy to fulfill the demands of the idol which have deficiency (as a human) is to make virtual idols. Their presence started to replace idol, which means virtual idol is part of the product of Japanese’s popular culture. This research is intended to descript the virtual idol’s posthuman value as a virtual product that mixed with human reality. The object of this research is Hatsune Miku’s concert Magical Mirai 2016. She is one of the virtual idol who is still developing until now. This research used cultural studies approach and cybersemotic method (Piliang, 2010) to read Hatsune Miku’s posthuman value. The result of the study shows Hatsune Miku has posthuman value manifested on her appearance and voice. The posthuman values illustrated on Miku are her appearance that shows Japanese young women ideal body and her voice which can be controlled by anyone who has the software
THE JOURNEY TO REDEMPTION: A STUDY OF THE VIOLENCE IN NORMAN MAILER’S THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
Get PDFThe Naked and the Dead, as Norman Mailer’s first and representative work, is not only the most classical war fiction, but also the most controversial work since World War II. The war is used as a background to explore various problems emerging in American society. Throughout history, violence has always played an important part in human development, and promoted the development of human society. War as the extreme manifestation of violence causes great significance on human history. During the time of World War Two, people lives under the shadow of totalitarianism, the situation is especially serious in the U.S. Army. Some of the soldiers are transformed to war machines with neither personal will nor identity. In Mailer’s mind, violence and creativity have a twin-like relation, if we cut all the violence out of society, we also cut out all the creativity, and violence becomes the resolution which people employ with to regain their humanity, so as to have self-redemption. Croft’s failure of conquering Mount Anaka fully revels there is still possibility that human can be redeemed
FIGURES OF SPEECH IN MELENGKAN OF GAYO WEDDING
Get PDFMelengkan is a custom in the plateau of Gayo performed at a wedding expressed in poetical, lyrical or proverbial form. The study is aimed at identifying the types and uses of figures of speech in Melengkan of Gayo wedding supported by the concept of figures of speech proposed by Kosasih (2007). The data were collected through observation and a video-recording of the traditional Gayo wedding. as well as interviews with melengkan performers under descriptive qualitative method (Best, 1982). The figures of speech used in Melengkan also reflect the cultural value of Gayo community with points of local wisdom. The findings showed that there were four classifications of figures of speech: Comparison, Substitution, Addition or Amplification, and Omission or suppression used in Melengkan. The cultural values of Melengkan are for remembrance of local wisdom, warnings from customary philosophy, religion, and also for giving advice and recalling the history and beauty of Melengkan speech. The context of using Melengkan is to perpetuate and reflect cultural values, namely, politeness, respect, speaking softly, friendliness and resoluteness. These findings imply the importance of conserving Melengkan as a part of the Gayo culture in every part of life
FAIRCLOUGH’S THREE DIMENSION FRAMEWORK USED ON TRUMP’S POLITICAL SPEECH: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (A CASE STUDY OF HISTORIC SPEECH RELATED TO JERUSSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL)
Get PDFThe aim of this research is to analyze and find out the ways used by Trump in delivering his political speech, based on Fairclough’s three dimension framework (1995). The method applied in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The data in this research is a set of transcription extracted from Trump’s speech published on December 8th, 2017 on youtube, which theme of the speech is Trump’s statement about Jerussalem being the capital of Israel. The research uses Fairclough theory. Since there are three dimension frameworks of the critical discourse analysis; first, a text or description (speech, writing, vicual images or a combination of these). Second, a discursive pratice or interpretation which involves the production and consumption of the texts. Third, a social practice or explanation of the discourse. Based on the theory, this research found some results that had been gained from Trump political speech; The ways of delivering this speech were vocabulary, voice, mood and transitivity. This speech conveyed meaning as persuading, criticism, constrastive participant, power, authority, allusion, claim, that were implicitly contained in this speec
ANALYSIS OF TEACHER TALK IN ENGLISH CLASSES IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TELADAN MEDAN
Get PDFThe objective of this study at describing the types of Teacher Talk, the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of Teacher Talk, and the aspect of Teacher Talk in classroom observation. This study used descriptive qualitative method is employed in this study which tries to describe all phenomena that occurred in the classroom This study involved an English teacher as research subject in his class. The subject of this study has implemented English talk as a means of communication in learning process of his classroom. The subject here is a female teacher who has been teaching English for one years and graduated from the university of Medan. This study was conducted in SMK Teladan located in Medan city. This study was done in twelfth grade. This class consists of 22 students with 11 are males and 11 are females. The main data was taken through observation technique. The data was collected by using recording and field notes. From analysis done, it was found that English teacher performed their interactional communicative features out of five in the classroom. The features are 1. Referential Questions 2. Content Feedback 3. Student initiated Talk. All communicative interactional features of teacher it happened in discussion activities, it could be concluded that the teacher performs their interactional communicative features in classroom interaction out of five. There features are: 1. Referential Questions 2. Content Feedback 3. Student initiated Talk
LOCAL AND TARGET CULTURE MATERIALS: INSIGHT INTO TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES
Get PDFIn this contemporary world, English is used to link the communication among people internationally for different universal purposes (Crystal, 2003; Jenkins, 2010; and Kirkpatrick, 2011), for instance, educational advancement, career development, technology, and international relation. It is obvious that the function of English during this period of time has made some countries generate policies to include English as one of the compulsory subjects being taught at schools. However, the materials which are used in school practices are likely to focus on the target culture materials. Due to this reason, it seems that the role of local and target cultures in teaching the language should be taken into consideration. Related to the status of English to the importance of culture in language learning, this research aims at investigating English teachers’ perspectives on the appropriateness of materials in English Language Teaching. In order to get broader pictures, questionnaires and interview were conducted to two English teachers in Samarinda. The results were interesting as both teachers preferred to expand the materials rather than used the readily materials provided by the school and/or the institution. This created them to become material developers and creators. Other results showed that the teachers were aware of the importance of the cultural content in the materials, thus culture functioned as ‘a filer and a connecting bridge’ in ELT
SILENCE USED IN ACEHNESE
Get PDFLanguage is very important in society. It is used to communicate with other people in everyday life. The understanding of language in communication becomes very important according to the main purpose of the use of the language itself which can be associated as a medium for delivering a message or information. As a tool of communication, language is not only conveyed orally, but also in silence. Every word has a meaning, silence also delivers a message and it has interpretations in meaning and purpose. The use of silence can also be found among Acehnese while having communication. Silence is a complex phenomenon and embodies diverse concepts. In most usages of the word, silence has some degrees of relativity and often refers to states, which may not be silent at all. While some situations require the use of silence in some contexts, the other researches were found that using of silence for unnecessary situation. The objective of this study is to analyze how silence used in Acehnese. What the meaning and function of silence used by Acehnese are. The method was Acehnese’s conversations. From the data analysis, it showed that the respondents showed that silence found in conversation between Acehnese mostly used as a variety of politeness, to hide feeling ashamed, guilty, and angry. Besides that, it also showed a respect to elders, express agreement and disagreement. The silence used is also an influence of a custom in each culture descriptive qualitative. The source of the data was taken by recording of. In Acehnese culture, silence mostly used for showing polite behavior and respect toward people based on the context of the communication in social interaction
EMOTION IN IRVING KARCHMANR’S NOVEL MASTER OF THE JIN
Get PDFThe research is about the analysis of the emotion of some characters in Karchman’s novel Master of the Jin. The purpose of this research to describe types of emotion shown by the main characters emotions of the character in the novel Sang Raja Jin. Feelings and emotions are generally dubbed as state existing in the individual or organism at a time. For example, a person feels sad, happy, afraid, angry or other symptoms after seeing, hearing, or feeling something. In other words, feelings and emotions are characterized as a psychological state in organisms or individuals as a result of events or circumstances experienced by the organism. (Izard, 1990). This research used qualitative descriptive method and psychology literature approach. (Moleong,2010) The source of data was derived from the novel Sang Raja Jin. The finding shows that both the positive and the negative emotions are found in the novel. The positive emotions are love and happy emotion. Meanwhile, the negative emotions were anxious, fear, anger, sad emotion
DIRTY WORDS IN MIKI YOSHIKAWA’S YANKI-KUN TO MEGANE-CHAN COMIC (REVIEW OF LEXICAL FORM)
Get PDFDirty words are considered as a part of language phenomenon. They have their own forms and categories. This research discusses the Japanese dirty words which is contained in Miki Yoshikawa’s Yanki-kun to Megane-chan comic. it is aimed to describe lexical form in Miki Yoshikawa’s Yanki-kun to Megane-chan comic. This research utilizes descriptive qualitative method. The data research is obtained dirty words in Comic Yanki-kun to Megane-chan comic volume 1. In analyzing the data, theory of Fargo (2007) and Jay (1992) are used to describe lexical form of dirty words. The result of this research reveals that those are five categories out of ten found. There are 9,5% of obscenity, 40% of slang, 3% crusing, 27% of epithets, and 20,5% of scatology. This shows that slang and Epithets are the most used in Miki Yoshikawa’s Yanki-kun to Megane-chan volume 1 comic