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The Verb “To Cut†in Nias Middle Dialect: The Study of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)
No full textNias middle dialect is one of dialects used by people living on Nias island that administratively belongs to North Sumatra Province of Indonesia. The lack of studies on the language especially in semantics field was the main motivation in conducting this research. Another thing that also strongly supported the conduct of this research was a phenomenon in which some verbs semantically related to verb 'to cut' were rarely used by speakers of Nias middle dialect. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aims of discovering the verbs that have semantic relation to the verb “to cut†and describing the meaning of the verbs by employing the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory of Wierzbicka (1996) in the qualitative research design. To collect the data, cakap method was applied which is supported by pancing and rekam techniques. In analyzing the data, padan method was applied. Based on the results of data analysis, it was revealed that there were forty-seven Nias middle dialect verbs that semantically related to the verb 'to cut'. In accordance with the results of the explication of meaning, the verbs can be classified into three groups, namely verbs that are done with tools, verbs that are done without tools, and verbs that can be done with or without tools. This phenomenon shows that Nias people do a lot of cutting activities in their social lives. 
Caregivers Experience in Performing Interpersonal Communication and Directive Speech Acts With Elderly in Japan and Bali Nursing Home
No full textAn increasing number of elderly in Japan and Indonesia, especially Bali, has led to increased health needs to care for them in nursing homes. Health workers, such as caregivers, are the closest people to communicate directly with the elderly. Communication can be called interpersonal communication which is a process of direct information or transfer of understanding of two or more people. Good interpersonal communication will build closeness and intimacy in the process of delivering messages. Therefore this study tried to analyze the experience of caregivers in implementing interpersonal communication and also determine the form of directive speech acts used by caregivers in caring for the elderly in nursing homes. The method used in this research was a qualitative descriptive method by phenomenological approach. The results showed that interpersonal communication applied by caregivers in caring for the elderly provided verbal and non verbal interpersonal communication. In addition, in the communication process of caregive-elderly is also formed directive speech act including prohibitions, requests and questions. In conclusion, caregivers need to have the ability to communicate effectively with elderly
Teaching Procedural Texts: An Eco-Linguistics Perspective
No full textThe Curriculum 2013expects the students to possess both academic achievement and noble characters. Environmental awareness is one of noble characters proposed by The Curriculum 2013that relates to the eco-linguistics as an interdisciplinary science which involves ecology and linguistics. The objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of teaching text in the light of eco-linguistics perspective to teach procedural text and recycling garbage. This study employed a mixed method research design. The quantitative method (one group pretest-posttest design of pre-experimental research) is concerned with the improvement assessment of writing procedural text while the qualitative one (questionnaire) was dealt with the investigation of students’ knowledge and response about recycling garbage. The research subjects were one class of Junior High School consisting of 32 students taken by purposing sampling. A scoring system of assessing writing proposed by The Curriculum 2013was used in this study. While the instrument to assess the students’ knowledge and response to recycling garbage, a closed question type of questionnaire was applied. The results showed that there is a significant improvement in students writing from 76,72 (pre-test) to 80,47 (post-test). The results of questionnaire also revealed that the students positively respond to the conducted teaching and they have learnt recycling garbage
Overcoming Implicit Meaning in Indonesian-English Translation
No full textImplicit meaning is one of the language phenomena which need overcoming in translation. This present study aims to investigate in what construction the implicit meaning is realized in Indonesian and how implicit meaning is handled when it is rendered into English. This study applied a descriptive qualitative approach. The data were taken from a book of Indonesian short stories entitled Mandi Api (Soethama, 2006) and its translation in English entitled Ordeal by Fire (Cork, 2008). The results of the research showed that implicit meaning in Indonesian texts is conveyed into English in two ways. Firstly, the implicit meaning is kept implicit. Secondly, it is realized in explicit construction. The implicit information of the source texts is made explicit in target texts for some reasons which include grammatical reason, semantic reason, and stylistic reason. In conclusion, although the source and the target texts have different constructions in the translation under study, the source meanings are successfully conveyed into English
BENTUK DAN PENGGUNAAN EUFEMISME DALAM HOAKS
No full textThis study aims to describe the form and use of euphemisms in hoax texts by meaning category. The data used is document entirely collect from the website cekfakta.com and turnbackhoax.id. The data was verified, classified and then analyzed and then was presented descriptively. The results of this study found as much as 18 forms of euphemisms, they are figurative expressions, metaphors, flippancy, remodeling, circumlocution, clippings, acronyms, abbreviations, omission, one word replacing one other word, general to specific, part to whole, hyperbole, meaning outside the statement, jargon, colloquial, borrowing, and foreign language forms. It is used in hoax for composing better speech, as if to convey facts with hyperbolic expressions, to tease or criticize others smoothly, in a political, religious, and health context
Analizyng The Lingual Elements of Sampoerna Hijau Advertisement Published on Youtube
No full textThe research aims to find any lingual elements and meanings used by advertisers in “Sampoerna Hijau†Cigarette advertisements on Youtube. There are 5 editions of advertisements that are analized, “Edisi Dateng Kondanganâ€, “Edisi Selfie di Kondanganâ€, “Edisi Minum Es Kacang Ijoâ€, “Edisi Punyaku Lebih Nikmat†and the last is “Edisi Hijau Panasâ€. Seven Types of Meaning theory by Leech is used on this research. This study is design in a qualitative research. Researcher collected the data using observation methods. Then in the analysis of research data using Agih method with the basic technique that is Bagi Unsur Langsung or BUL techniques. The BUL method and technique are used by researcher to analyze the signs and forms found in Sampoerna Hijau cigarette advertisements so that they can easily classify these lingual signs and forms. The researcher found that the lingual form in the five editions of Sampoerna Hijau Cigarette Advertisements, namely: 10 interrogative sentences, 13 imperative sentences, 13 declarative sentences, 14 exclamation sentences, 2 nouns and 1 adjective. The meanings found in each lingual form are 5 meanings, with the following description: sentences that contain reflections as many as 12 sentences, sentences containing affective meanings of 22 sentences, sentences containing conceptual meanings of 15 sentences, sentences that contains a colloquial meaning of 2 sentences and the last sentence that contains connotative meaning of 1 sentence
"Nyekah" Ceremony in Hindu Community in Sesetan Village, Denpasar: Ethno-Linguistic Study
No full textCulture and language are habitual things that are always done by the generation in a region. This research focused on the study of ethno-linguistic that discovered the grammatical meaning, cultural meaning and symbolic meaning of ‘Nyekah’ ceremony in Sesetan village, Denpasar. This research is an ethno-linguistic study in which the researcher will examine the procession of Nyekah in the perspective of linguistic that is related with culture. The method of data collection used is participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. There were 22 lingual elements that those data were categorized as elliptical sentences. Those data were analyzed to find the grammatical and cultural meaning. Furthermore, in ‘Nyekah’ ceremony there were 6 symbolic data which were used in the ritual. Every symbol had deep meaning that were related with religion, human life and nature
Meme Implicature Using the Word 'Tenggelamkan'
No full textThe majority of Indonesians who are known to use social media as a means of communication and entertainment are certainly familiar with the term meme. A meme phenomenon popular is the use of the word 'tenggelamkan' at the end of the discourse popularized by Susi Pudjiastuti, the former minister of fisheries and maritime affairs. The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to determine the language style used in memes that use the word ‘tenggelamkan’ and (2) to determine the implicature of memes using the word ‘tenggelamkan’. The data source of this research is taken from various pictures on the internet, amounting to 15 memes. The data collection used is the method capture. The research method is descriptive qualitative, the analysis used is Grice's theory of conversational maxims. The results of this study indicate the themes used in memes using the word ‘tenggelamkan’ include the themes of love, friendship, corruption, worship, and food. The use of language styles that are reflected, such as 9 memes of cynicism, 5 memes of paradox, and 1 meme of rhetoric. The implicatures of meme data using the word ‘tenggelamkan’ are as follows: satire, suggestion, satire and suggestion
The Superstructure of Public Service Advertisements on Plastic Waste
No full textThis study concerns the ad texts from the perspective of discourse structure. At a specific layer, it reveals the superstructure of a five-type public service advertisement text discourse taken from Youtube. The five advertisements in question are “Diet Kantong Plastikâ€, “Polusi Plastik Multimedia SMKN 1 Surabaya 2018/2019â€, “Kampanye Sosial Menguragi Sampah Plastikâ€, “Kurangi Sampah Plastik†and “Polusi Sampah Plastikâ€. Achieving this goal was done by making use of a qualitative research design. The data were collected through several procedures namely finding, downloading, filtering, taking notes and researching the data to discover the text superstructure. Data were analyzed using padan method, or identity method. Then the results of data analysis are presented in the form of a description. The study addresses the issue of discourse structure with the superstructure (Dijk, 1980) theory approach. The results of the data analysis showed that each adver- tisement had four sequences of structures, namely introduction, body, closing and conclusion. These four com- ponents are the ones that form the fifth superstructure of the public service advertisements reviewed in this paper. By chance a service advertisement is indeed of many analysable aspects. The present study is only re- stricted to plastic trash community service ads on Youtube. However, public service announcements or adver- tisements can also be obtained from other electronic media such as TV or radio and from the print media. For the futher studies, it is necessary to explore the community service advertisements on plastic waste that are displayed through these media
An Analysis of Pronunciation Errors Made by Medical Students at S&I Learning Centre
No full textThis study discusses about pronunciation errors made by medical students at S&I Learning Centre. The study aims to describe the types of pronunciation errors found in students' utterances using descriptive qualitative method. The subject are medical students at S&I Learning, meanwhile the object of this exploration are students' utterances in English. The data was collected through audio recording and then those was analysed by using theory proposed by Corder by classifying errors into three types. The results show that the sorts of pronunciation errors created by medical student and 2) the cause of pronunciation errors produced by medical students. Students’ pronunciation errors are also classified into three types. Those are interference errors, intralingual errors, and developmental errors. In speaking, teacher and students had their effect to each other. The teacher has duties to assess and address the error of students by addressing the errors produced by learners permanently, particularly at the time when they drilled and practiced the correct pronunciation in speaking skill. In addition, students too should be more dynamic in surveying and correcting the pronunciation themselves. They have to create and improve their pronunciation capacity by appreciating the hypothetical about legitimate phonological. In accordance with this reason, it is necessary to apply an appropriate learning model to reduce pronunciation errors produced by students