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“Money Doesn’t Like Noise”: Akufo Addo’s Pathos from A Metadiscoursal Perspective
Get PDFPoliticians create a political persona with their audience in mind, and their speeches are crafted to involve receivers in a promising future. They intentionally create a stream of ideas to engage the audience and arouse their emotions to make affective appeals. Using the frameworks of Hyland's Model of Metadiscourse and Aristotle's Rhetorical Persuasion Theory, the present study analysed Akufo Addo's address to the nation on October 30, 2022, when the country was facing economic difficulties. The study found that attitude markers, self-mentions, reader pronouns, and directives of metadiscourse markers are persuasively used in the data. The study concludes that Akufo Addo relied heavily on these metadiscourse markers to draw on pathos appeals, harmonise with the audience, and achieve the purpose of persuasion in the address. The findings of the study have implications for reflections on language and politics
Sociolinguistics of Names of Hotels in Accra: A Linguistic Landscape Perspective
Get PDFIn recent times, the language in public spaces (as seen in street names, school names, names of buildings, names of metro stations, names of tourist attractions, and commercial signs) has attracted scholarly attention in onomastics, with the focus on how it reflects the linguistic situation of urban landscapes and how it can be used to construct several identities. The present study aimed to investigate names of hotels in Accra – the capital city of Ghana, with considerable financial, cultural, and industrial significance – using Landry & Bouris’s (1997) Linguistic Landscape as a theory. The data comprises 160 hotel names accessed from the website of Yello Ghana, a well-known business directory. The analysis revealed, first, that most of the hotels deployed English monolingual names, with a few utilising bilingual names. Closely allied to this finding is the trend towards globalisation, as captured in some names of hotels. These key findings have implications for the scholarship in onomastics, urban landscape, language policy and planning, and further research
The Lecturers and Students’ Voice about Digital Reading: Does it Influence the Students’ Reading Skill?
Get PDFThis research attempts to determine whether digital reading has the same effect as traditional reading on students’ reading skill and to explain the lecturers and the students’ perceptions of digital reading. The writer applied mixed-method research. Sixty students participated as a research sample. Ten lecturers were also involved in this research. The instruments of this research were reading tests, questionnaires, and structured interviews. Reading tests were analyzed by using SPSS 22.0. The questionnaires were analyzed quantitatively using Microsoft Excel, and the structured interview was analyzed qualitatively. The writer found that digital and traditional reading does not affect students’ reading skills. It was evidenced by the t-test value being higher than the alpha (0.40 > 0.05). In contrast to many lecturers’ opinions, students do not prefer digital reading because they need more explanations from their lecturer. Meanwhile, the lecturers revealed that digital reading is useful for ongoing virtual learning. They also were confident in their ability to employ these digital readings. Both lecturers and students agree that the availability of technological tools is the key constraint they must deal with. This research hoped to give meaningful information to the government so that online readers can be facilitated with high-quality online reading materials based on their needs, interests, and behavior
Phenomenon of the Use of Code-Switching of Balinese People Daily Communication in Buleleng Regency
Get PDFThis study aims to analyze the types and functions of code-switching used in the daily conversation of Balinese people. This research was conducted in Tinga-tinga village, located in the Buleleng Regency, Gerokgak District, Bali Province. The participants or subject of this research were the surrounding people in the Tinga-tinga village. The instruments used in this research were observation and interview. The data was analyzed using a descriptive qualitative design to describe the result of the study in the Buleleng Regency daily conversation. After collecting data by conducting observations and interviews, this research found that people in Buleleng Regency mostly do code-switching in their everyday conversations using the local language or Bahasa Bali and Indonesian language or Bahasa Indonesia. The type of code-switching often used among the community is intra-sentential switching. People often do code-switching from one language to another in one sentence when communicating and when they find it difficult to explain something using the local language. On the other hand, the function of code-switching that Buleleng people often use is the referential function. They use the function to explain or express something in simple language that listeners easily understand. In addition, the function often used is the expressive function of code-switching
Foregrounding the Verbal Process: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Adichie’s Zikora (2020)
Get PDFLiterature mirrors societies. While the plethora of studies on African literature, spanning from the early 21st century, have discussed literary texts in their political spectrums, recent studies using transitivity analysis have offered new and objective understandings of these novels. Nonetheless, most transitivity analyses have been fixated on characterization, style and themes. Against this background, the purpose of this study was to use corpus procedures to examine the transitivity of verbal process types in Adichie’s recent novel Zikora. Assisted by corpus linguistics, the study used transitivity as an analytical framework to analyse the verbal process in the text. From the analysis, three major findings are reported from the discussion. First, through the verbal processes, the Adichie deconstructed the myriad suffering and subjugation of women through dialogic means and taking responsibility for their livelihood. Second, the foregrounded verbal processes reflect the attribution of processes to other characters than accounting for the literary effects projected through the clauses. Finally, while the writer used the projected clauses to attribute the verbal processes to others, the dominant use of the first-person mode of narration identifies a sharing of roles to account for the writing of the literary work. Following these findings, the study extends the scholarship on literary stylistics and provides implications for further research in other genres of (African) literature
An Analysis of Code-Switching in “Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens” Movie
Get PDFCode-switching becomes one of the phenomena that happens in society, especially for bilingualism and multilingualism. The ability to master more than one language makes a person sometimes switch from one language to another when speaking or better known as code-switching. Code-switching not only happens in real-life contexts but also happens in novels, talk shows, songs, movies, and other works. This research aimed to find out and analyze code-switching that appeared in Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens movie. In gaining the data, this study will use the qualitative descriptive method. The findings show inter-sentential code-switching is mostly used in this movie. Further, background and setting also take an important role for each of the code-switching that happens in this movie
Code-Switching and Social Media in Bangladesh: Emergence of a New English
Get PDFUsing two or more languages in a singular context or conversation is similar to going with the flow these days, specifically on social sites. This is referred to as "code-switching" by sociolinguists. The study aims at finding out the ratio and scenario of code-switching on social media in Bangladesh, and whether a New English has emerged or not for that. The study was conducted on a randomly chosen sample population of 40 participants across the country. It applied a mixed-method approach consisting of both qualitative and quantitative research methods to conduct this study. The study collected data through a close-ended questionnaire sent to the sample population via email, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Google Docs and some relevant data in the form of screenshots from Facebook posts, comments, and messenger chats. The findings of the study show that more than half of the participants in this research does not have the proper knowledge and intention regarding code-switching, and they perform it for sheer convenience in colloquial practice and communication. However, most of the participants do not support code-switching because they are concerned about their English language efficiency. And they also assert that Code-switching does not play a major role in the emergence of new sorts of English language because there are, in truth, other reasons behind this
Language and Gender in Bubunan, Buleleng Regency
Get PDFThis research discusses language and gender in the sociolinguistic field with the purposes of finding out what are the vocabularies that is commonly used by the female teenagers and the male teenagers in Bubunan Village. Thus, this research is included as the types of observational research. In collecting the data of this research, the researcher conducted observation through the teenagers’ conversation in Bubunan Village and sometimes the researcher will involve in the conversation. The result of this research is the female teenagers more commonly using the standard vocabularies in their communication. When the female teenagers delivering a bad truth, they will choose polite words, so they are not using rude words and not hurting the speakers feeling. Meanwhile, the male teenagers commonly using the rude words to show their closeness and just being straightforward. In the interaction between male and female when they have interested each other, they will choose the polite words and speak softly. In the other hand, in the interaction between male and female teenagers if they have not interested each other or their relationship is close enough as a friend, they will speak bluntly
Turn-taking as a Pedagogical Strategy in Classroom Interaction: A Conversation Analysis of Adjacency Pairs
Get PDFMost part of teaching and learning in the classroom is done through interaction or ‘talk’. The importance of teacher-student interaction in the teaching and learning process can, therefore, not be overemphasised. This study investigates the adjacency pair patterns of teacher-student classroom interaction and how these patterns impact on pedagogy. It is a qualitative study. All the four Senior High Schools in the Agona West Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana were engaged in the study. One English teacher each from the schools was selected through a random sampling technique. Their classes of an average size of 60 students were observed through participant observation and the teacher-student interactions were recorded through audio recording and note-taking. Analysis of the data was grounded in Schegloff’s (2007) conceptual framework of adjacency pair. The outcome of the study revealed that eight adjacency pairs were used in the language classroom. These are; greeting/greeting, check/clarification, instruction/compliance, question/answer, request/accept, accusation/refusal, complaint/apology and leave-taking/leave-taking. The data also revealed that 82% of the interactions is initiated by the teacher while only 18% is student-initiated. This has impacts on pedagogy and must therefore ignite the scholarly interests of pedagogues and linguists
Ethnography of Communication: The Analysis of Dell Hymes’ SPEAKING Model in the Communication among the Infertility Husband and Wife
Get PDFThe present study was employed qualitative descriptive methods to examine ethnography of communication using Dell Hymes’ SPEAKING mnemonic in the communication between husband and in wife who has no children for a long time in their family. the findings showed a connection between a childless couple with Hymes’ SPEAKING terms. The results were communication among husband and wife who get infertility took place in the couple’s house particularly in the living room (Setting) in which the scenes were a debate between husband and wife (Participants) who sat opposite in the night (Scene) to seek a corporate solution and maintain the relationship (Ends). The Act was started by awkward conversations which trigger argument and lead to quarrel (A). There were several tones such as serious, tense, sad, promised, regret, apologize, anger, mocking, rude, and pleading in which the communication was conducted in verbal and non-verbal speech (Key) by including code-mixing (Instrumentalities). The husband and wife communicated alternately as speaker and hearer who asking and questioning to respect each other and understanding each situation (Norms of interaction and interpretation). The genre was quarrel as the dialogues were about the debate (Genre)