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    Minangkabau Language and Change in People’s Political Orientation

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    This article discusses the change in the Minangkabau political orientation from the Dutch colonial era to the present. They pose the Minangkabau language as a political issue in the national interaction. This study employs content analysis and qualitative historical research methodologies. The content analysis approach is used to determine the accuracy of information gathered from many sources, as well as to describe and analyze the Minangkabau language’s politicization by the Minangkabau people, Dutch colonialism, and the government of The Republic of Indonesia. This paper shows how Minangkabau people view their mother tongue as a part of national identity, how they make it as the ammunition for the movement of resentencing to fight against the central government, how Minangkabau people make their mother tongue a part of ethnic identity politics; and how language policy of the Dutch colonial and Republic of Indonesia government influenced the change in Minangkabau political orientation. The analysis proves that language has become inseparable from regional history dynamism and Minangkabau regional-political life. The language attitude of the Minangkabau people in the colonial era showed a high national spirit. Language has the capacity to foster emotional connections among its proponents, whereas history can offer a comprehensive glimpse into the evolution and progression of language throughout time

    The Fauna Lexicon in Aceh Proverb: Ecolinguistic Study

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    The reciprocal relationship between humans and humans, humans and the nature around them, produces a variety of languages. Ecolinguistics is needed in studying aceh language phenomena. This study aims to describe the meaning, function, and form of the fauna lexicon in the culture of the people of Aceh. This research is descriptive-qualitative in nature. This research data collection technique consists of interview techniques and observation techniques. Interview techniques were used to obtain data on the meaning and function of fauna in the culture of the people of Aceh. While observation techniques are used to obtain data on fauna forms in the culture of the people of Aceh. Current facts show that the lexicon of fauna is still used by parents when advising the younger generation, and they cannot understand the meaning of the advice. This is caused by environmental changes and the times that affect the younger generation’s mindset. The researcher collected a list of fauna lexicons in the Acehnese language and classified them into verb and noun classes

    Religious Narratives during the Pandemic: Transitivity Analysis of Covid-19 Hoax Discourse on Indonesian Social Media

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    Many studies have been carried out on religious narratives that go hand in hand with the Covid-19 pandemic, but only focus on religious authority, religious attitudes and behavior, and the contributions of religious leaders. In fact, the religious dimension in the Covid-19 hoax circle is a form of social practice that contains a dialectical process. This article aims to reveal the hidden dialectical process in the lingual features of the Covid-19 hoax through Halliday’s transitivity analysis. This descriptive qualitative research data is in the form of lingual elements in the Covid-19 hoax content related to religious issues. Data was collected using documentation techniques on four website pages to fact-check Covid-19 news published throughout 2020-2021. Data collection was carried out by going through the stages of reading and observing, sorting, storing and printing, rereading, and determining research subjects. The data is then analyzed by taking the data reduction stage; display data; conclusion, and verification. The results showed that of the 121 data used as a corpus, 6 types of transitivity processes were found, namely (1) material processes, (2) mental processes, (3) relational processes, (4) verbal processes, (5) behavioral processes, and (6) existential process. The research findings provide a new perspective on the tendency of discourse producers to construct narratives about Covid-19 and religious issues. The research findings will have implications for efforts to educate the public about hoax issues around Covid-19. With the description of the exploitation of religious issues, it is hoped that the community will be aware and able to think critically in digesting information

    Amazigh Language Use on Social Media: An Exploratory Study

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    This paper aimed to investigate Moroccan Amazighs’ use of the Amazigh language on social media and the various aspects of Amazigh’s presence on these platforms. The study was carried out following a descriptive research design whereby data were collected by way of a large-scale online survey. A sample of one-thousand informants was randomly selected from all over Morocco based on several social variables, including sex, age, education, and region of belonging. Data analysis revealed that the Tifinagh script is less used compared to Latin and Arabic in which the language is highly present on social media platforms. It was also found that Amazigh is greatly used in chatting and that Moroccans highly interact with Amazigh-related content on Amazigh public pages and groups on social networking websites. The survey respondents accordingly showed remarkable satisfaction with social media content published in Amazigh. The analysis also demonstrated that Amazigh social media users are particularly interested in topics pertinent to the fields of history, culture, and art. It was yet discovered that Moroccans view the use of Amazigh on social networking sites as an effective alternative for promoting and improving the language. The study calls for upholding and ameliorating online Amazigh language use, as well as extending its scope by adopting digitization policies centering on the prominence of Tifinagh

    The Impact of CBLT Approaches on Students' Learning Achievements for ESP Courses

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    ESP courses in higher education are seen as one of the efforts to provide undergraduates with skills beneficial to their careers to meet the growing demand of young professionals. The study assessed the impact of CBLT approaches on the student’s learning achievement in ESP courses. The objective of the study was to find out the impact of CBLT on students’ learning achievement in ESP courses. This study employed a qualitative method design that applied a case study design. The data source in this study was thirty students from different study programs who implemented CBLT approaches in learning ESP courses at Bosowa University. The study applied a questionnaire utilizing the five-point Likert Scale to see their responses on the student’s learning achievement in ESP courses through CBLT approaches. The interview results applied the Nvivo R1-5 to know in depth their responses on learning ESP courses through CBLT approaches. Three types of data coding are used namely, open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Findings revealed that firstly, students believed that they could improve their English capability in learning ESP courses. Students were able to communicate in real life. Secondly, the findings revealed that students’ learning achievement on CBLT implementation can motivate students to learn ESP courses. Students believed that CBLT offers many opportunities for communication skills on ESP and use specific English in their disciplines

    FATIS BAHASA MINANGKABAU: LINGUISTIK BANDINGAN

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    Fatis merupakan salah satu kajian baru da/am teori bahasa "Indonesia. Hal itu dibuktikan masih kurangnya teori yang mengkaji fatis. Fatis tidak hanya terdapat dalam bahasa Indonesia, tetapijuga dimiliki o/eh bahasa daerah. Sa/ah satu bahasa daerah itu adalah bahasa Minangkabau. Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana fatis bahasa Minangkabau jika" "· dipadankan dengan fatis bahasa Indonesia. Metode yang digunakan ada/ah kualitatif dengan teknik rekam dan catat. Data dipero/eh melalui lisan dan tu/is dalam bahasa Minangkabau. Hasil penelitia11 menunjukkan bahwafatis bahasa Minangkabau memiliki padanan denganfatis bahasa Indonesia. Fatis do menjadi deh, ko menjadi sih, e menjadi yah, kan, dan dong, mah menjadi deh, a menjadi ah, dan ndeh

    An Analysis of Cohesive Devices on Phoenix Posts on The Death of Queen Elisabeth II

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    This paper explores some cohesive devices namely reference, repetition, and collocation on Phoenix messages by internet users worldwide in reaction to the death of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. 400 e-messages on Phoenix platform were collected from 175 informants. Each participant provided at most three e-messages. The study examines the types of cohesive devices and the extent to which they are used in the various conversations of the texters. Insights were drawn from Halliday and Hassan (1976) who laid down the foundation of cohesion theory in English. They identified two different types of cohesive devices namely grammatical and lexical cohesion. The grammatical type is made up of reference, conjunction, substitution, and ellipsis; while lexical one comprises reiteration and collocation. Facts from the analysis of the data revealed that reference was the dominant cohesive devices. More precisely, the demonstrative pronouns (28.57%) are the most used referential items. it is seconded by possessive pronouns (23.42%) and the least employed devices is personal pronouns (20.57%). The results also indicated the use of repetition and collocation in messages of the participants. The most repeated word is Queen while the least reduplicated one is slave/slavery. Items of collocation are used at varying frequencies

    Negative Imperfective Verb Form in Kanuri: A Case Study of Nyariwa Kanuribe

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    This paper examines Negative Imperfect Verb Form in Kanuri text within the framework of descriptive linguistics adopting the works of Cyffer (2009) model of approach in analyzing negation types in Kanuri. In conducting the research, both sources of data collection were employed: the primary source includes a Kanuri written text Nyariwa Kanuribe, where all the various place where the Negations negating the imperfective verb occurred where underlined and extracted from the text for data presentation and analysis. The study also employed the secondary source of data collection where three linguists from the Kanuri section of the department of languages and Linguistics University of Maiduguri, Nigeria were engaged to validate the data collected from the text. The outcome of the study reveals that there are two particle used in negating the imperfective verbs form in the text and study identified these particles are ba and bawo are bound morpheme negating imperfective verbs form in Kanuri. Finally the study identified eighty one instances of the two negation particle with their number of occurrences and their percentages in the text analyzed

    Distorted Korean Idol’s Scandal, Deceitful Media, and The Role of Forensic Linguistics

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    A celebrity’s scandal can be an enthralling theme for the media to produce news, either factual or fabricated. This research primarily focuses on distorted content or media manipulation to report it. It explores the correlation between misleading news and the motives behind twisted reality. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method through the lens of the forensic linguistics approach, supported by Villa’s interpretative pragmatics (2010). The collected data were from selected sources of distorted media reporting, especially about a highly considered Korean singer’s crime, known Seungri of Bigbang. His charge was not direct link with sexual abuse and systematic drugs, which is in fact unrevealed wealthy people committing them. Even nonconsensual disclosure of sexually-explicit videos was committed by other celebrities. Yet, the media fraudulently blended and misrepresented Seungri as the key figure of the scandal in a club named ‘Burning Sun’. Society was misled to hate and blame him. This research shows that passive constructions, lexical references, and subject matters of the texts become linguistic evidence of fact distortion. Manipulating celebrity’s scandal is driven by political goals, such as creating mistrust and bewildering larger audiences, especially in South Korea about proving the justice system as the actual culprits are withdrawn. This research is noteworthy since there are interwoven claims of the power of media to wriggle out of legal punishments after spreading distorted facts. Hence, it implies that pragmatics is applicable and efficacious to prove the case. It leads to defamation by media, correlated with forensic linguistics. To reveal the distorted facts by deceitful media, this study expectantly contributes in enhancing social awareness of the truth behind blatant public outrage and its social consequences

    The Representation of Culture in “Bumi Manusia” Novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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    Critical discourse analysis is a view of language in discourse analysis that views powers as always involved in forming subjects represented in language. The AWK model used in this paper is Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. Critical discourse analysis, which generally analyzes media texts, can also be used to analyze literary works, including novels. The novel analyzed by Norman Fairclough’s discourse analysis is the novel Bumi Manusia by Manusiaya Ananta Toer. Norman Fairclough’s discourse analysis examines text, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. The three aspects of Norman Fairclough’s discourse analysis can be answered through the descriptive method text section the researcher can find three basic elements in the Norman Fairclough model, namely elements of representation, relations, and identity in the novel Bumi Manusia. Meanwhile, this paper will only discuss one element, namely representation. The result of this research is that culture is found in the text of the novel Bumi Manusia, in the form of daily behavior, language, clothes, to the names that appear in the text of the novel. In the text of the Bumi Manusia novel, there are also several cultures, not only Indonesian culture but, there is also Dutch culture by the contents of the story or synopsis of the novel describes indigenous life side by side with the Dutch

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