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The portrayal of bullying in The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Full text linkBullying is a pattern of negative behavior, not an occasional incident, which still occurs frequently in society. In most cases, bullying happens to children at school. As the issue has received much public attention, bullying is commonly featured in numerous literary works, one of which is in the children's film by Joe Cornish, The Kid Who Would Be King (2019). Through analysis under the framework of film theory by Bordwell and Thompson (2016) and Foucault's (1995) theoretical framework of power, the film portrayed bullying toward students in school through the film's cinematography, sound, and mise-en-scène. The imbalance of power between the bullies and the bullied is the main factor causing acts of bullying. It shows in the difference of individual aspects such as body sizes and social standings in school, which the bullies usually have the more advantageous aspect than the bullied. The advantageous aspect makes the bullies superior, giving them a chance to cause negative impacts on the bullied personalities intentionally. The negative impact of bullying can lower the bullied self-esteem, making them feel worthless as an individual. Since bullying is also a critical issue that needs to explore further, the researcher conducts a textual analysis study to provide references to readers about bullying in children's films and raise awareness about bullying against children in schools
The Portrayal of Deaf Character in the Children's Book Entitled Dancing to the Beat (2021)
Full text linkResearchers have analyzed the portrayal of characters with disabilities in children’s and adolescent literature. However, studies examining the portrayal of deaf character in children book is extremely limited, despite an increased inclusion of deaf characters in children’s literature over the past two decades (Golos Moses, 2011). The present study analyzes the portrayal of deaf character and the way meanings are constructed in children’s picture book entitled Dancing to the Beat (2021). The study employed a qualitative approach and was framed by theory of characterization (Reams, 2015). In addition, visual grammar (Kress and Leeuwen, 2006) and Cerrato’s (2012) meaning of colors are applied to analyze the visual text. The results indicate that the deaf character is portrayed through highlighting Deaf culture instead of medical impairment model. From fifteen pages analyzed, there are eleven pages which belong to Deaf culture and four pages to medical impairment. Thus, Deaf culture characteristics appeared more frequent than the medical impairment as it can be seen through her environment’s acceptance. The deaf character showed as a positive role model with self-confidence, optimism, enthusiasm and hard work through her behavior in facing her challenges. In addition, the book highlighted the importance of the role of adult and peer in deafness environment and inclusive education
Code-switching and code-mixing used by an Indonesian Vtuber on YouTube
Full text linkThis research aims to identify the types of code-switching and code-mixing used by an Indonesian VTuber and the functions behind them. The data are taken from a live-streamed video of an Indonesian VTuber, Kobo Kanaeru, on YouTube. Descriptive qualitative method is employed in conducting this research. Several theories are used in the analyzing process of this research, such as Hoffmann (2017), Wardhaugh (2005), and Crystal (2008) to identify and analyze the code-switching and code-mixing types. Hoffman (2017) is also used to analyze the functions of the code-switching and code-mixing. The findings of this research discover that intra-sentential switching and intra-sentential mixing are the dominant types of code-switching and code-mixing. This shows that Kobo preferred to do code-switching and code-mixing for shorter English clauses and words only, and it indicates that Kobo is not very fluent in speaking English. It is also found that Kobo used code-switching and code-mixing mostly to talk about a particular topic. It is because in her live-streamed video, she only talks about the game she is playing in her live-streaming or other topics that comes from her viewers in the comment section
The Portrayal of The Main Character's Self-Actualization in The Karate Kid (2010)
Full text linkThe study aims to analyze how the main character in The Karate Kid (2010) achieves self-actualization needs in an intercultural setting. Employing close-reading to analyze the text, the study uses Maslow’s (2013) hierarchy of needs and Rogers’ (1967) five characteristics of a fully functioning person as the theoretical frameworks. It also uses Bordwell, Thompson and Smith’s film form (2017) as a tool to analyze the cinematic aspects of the film. The current study finds that Dre Parker, the main character in the film, successfully achieves self-actualization after fulfilling the four preceding needs, which are physiological, safety and security, love and belongingness, and self-esteem. It is also found that he expresses self-actualization through the five characteristics of a fully functioning person: openness to experience, existential living, trust feelings, creativity, and fulfilled life. Furthermore, the study concludes that the main character’s young age and cultural background do not hinder him from reaching self-actualization. In fact, self-actualization contributes to unite disparate cultures to a certain extent
Liberal feminism aspects reflected by the character of Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown Season 1
No full textLiberal feminism is the branch of feminism that believes that men and women are equal. It holds that women can act on the same level as men. It has been a recurring issue in various literary works that features a main female character, especially in film. In addition, liberal feminism can be observed in TV series. A series that portrays a female character is The Crown. This research seeks to investigate what aspects of liberal feminism are represented by the character of Queen Elizabeth II in the first season of the series. This research employed qualitative design due to the descriptive nature of the research that explores a social phenomenon. The theory of liberal feminism by Rosemarie Tong (2018) was also utilized to help analyze and describe Queen Elizabeth II’s behavior which reflected the aspects of liberal feminism. The findings of this study revealed that Queen Elizabeth in this series displays action that falls under the three aspects of liberal feminism, equal education, liberty, and rights. This shows that liberal feminism can also manifests in the behavior of a prominent female historical figure
Conflict Analysis in Mother-daughter Relationship in Okky Madasari's The Years of the Voiceless
Full text linkConflict is an inevitable event that always occurs in human life as well in literary works. Okky Madasari’s The Years of the Voiceless shows conflicts that happen to a mother and a daughter who need to fight for women’s rights in the male-dominated world in the post-colonial era in Indonesia. They live based on their faiths and beliefs that are different due to the generational gap. By using the perspective of New Criticism, this study aims to investigate the sources of the conflict between them, how the conflicts are resolved, and how do the conflicts affect their relationship as mother-daughter. The result found that the conflicts that affect the mother-daughter relationship originate from external and internal conflicts. The conflicts are resolved through changes in the daughter’s character. This study proves that the generational gap, society, and characters’ personalities are the main causes of conflict in the mother-daughter relationships
Attitudes of Indonesian Youth in Bandung towards English on Social Media
Full text linkThe high use of social media platforms today and the status of English as an international language have driven many people across national borders to communicate using English. This study aims to explore the attitudes of a group of Indonesian youth in Bandung towards English in social media and to investigate the factors affecting their attitudes. The study adopts a qualitative approach and draws on Schiffman and Kanuk’s (2004) theory of attitude, which embraces the cognitive, affective, and conative dimensions. In addition, this study also uses Jendra’s (2010) theory on factors affecting language attitude. The results show that the majority of youth hold positive attitudes towards English in social media in each of the three aspects of attitude. The factors affecting their positive attitudes are the power and prestige of English and the social factor as the society at large has been accustomed to using English for global communication. This study implies the importance of English in the context of social media communication and raises people’s awareness of English for online international communication
An Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of Selected Episodes from Not Overthinking Podcast
Full text linkIn this pandemic era, some people seek knowledge and entertainment in digital audio content such as podcasts to reduce staring at computer and cell phone screens. Along with the massive trend, podcast speakers use particular language styles to get robust conversation and a large number of podcast listeners. Therefore, this study aims to identify the interpersonal meaning of the Not Overthinking podcast, as one of today's most popular podcasts. The data include the transcript texts of the three most popular episodes of the Not Overthinking podcast: “Why do we like to be correct?”, “Why are we scared to put ourselves out there?” and “Why do we struggle with consistency?” collected from Spotify. This study adopted Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focusing on the mood types and speech functions. This study found all the mood types and speech functions in the data. The dominant mood type is declarative, and the dominant speech function is statement. The finding of this study provides a clearer picture of podcast speakers who use statements more often to share knowledge and experience. In addition, the speakers also positioned themselves equal to the listeners
A Conversational Implicature Analysis on the Split Movie
Full text linkEvery conversation made between two parties or more must have arisen from specific contextual matters. Effort has become the case in achieving the wanted contextual rationality from the carried-out conversation which is connected to people’s strong will in creating ways to overcome the problem. In many attempts, movies, as a visual communication tool, have been used many times as a depiction of how real-life conversations are performed. Hence, this study which uses a descriptive qualitative method aims to investigate the use of maxim violation, maxim opt out, the types of conversational implicature, and their meaning of occurrence in the Split (2016) movie. To analyze the data, Grice’s (1975) theory on Conversational Implicatures and Yule’s (1996) theory on Cooperation and Implicature were used as the main theoretical frameworks. The data were taken from the movie script downloaded from the Scripts.com website while the movie was downloaded from the streaming-service platform, YouTube Movies. This study discovered that the violation of the maxim of manner, opt out of the maxim of quantity and quality, and particularized conversational implicature to be the mostly used ones in the conversations of the Split movie’s characters. The high occurrence of those implicatures demonstrates its purpose which is to make meaning of the characterization of the characters as their personalities and intentions are revealed. In line with the psychological feature that the movie as the data has, the findings also participate in the idea of people’s capability in interpreting the characteristic of others to be easily done
An Analysis of Code-Switching Used by the Models and Judges in Indonesia's Next Top Model Cycle 2
Full text linkThis study entitled “An analysis of code-switching used by the models and judges in Indonesia’s Next Top Model Cycle 2” aims to analyze the types and factors of code-switching that were found in the TV show. This study used a descriptive qualitative method in which the data were obtained from the video downloaded from YouTube. The data were in the form of utterances of all the models and judges in the TV show. Drawing on Appel and Muysken’s (2006) types of code switching and Hoffman’s (1991) factors contributing to code switching, the results of the study revealed that there were 167 types and 172 factors of code-switching in Indonesia’s Next Top Model Cycle 2: 13.17% (22) inter-sentential switching, 78.44% (131) intra-sentential switching, 6.59% (11) tag-switching, and 1.80% (3) inter-sentential switching in Bahasa Indonesia-Javanese. Meanwhile, the factors that found were talking about particular topic, being emphatic about something, interjection, repetition, intention to clarify, and expressing group identity. The most dominant factors were talking about particular topic 64.53% or 111 data and followed by intention of clarifying the speech content for interlocutors 14.53% or 25 data. The findings of the study indicated that intra-sentential switching was used dominantly to assure the audience of the show, which is mostly Indonesians, can understand entirely the conversation. Additionally, the subjects used code-switching to talk about particular topic, mostly for fashion terminologies, as it is intended to create an exclusivity for the people who belong to the same group, which is fashion enthusiasts