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PHATIC COMMUNION AS A UNIFIER AS PORTRAYED IN ‘WONDER’
Get PDFPhatic communication or so called ‘phatic communion’ is said to be a kind of language used to create, to maintain and to strengthen the social bond between individuals. However, the concept of phatic communication in which it requires neither an exchange of information nor a specific purpose in its use raises the question regarding the necessity and the effectiveness of phatic communication. Responding to this issue, this study is conducted to show the significance of phatic communication in colloquial speech event. This study aims to prove the role of phatic communication as a unifier between individuals as portrayed in Wonder movie reflected in the life of a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome, Auggie. Considering the hardships he encounters in his social life, this study aims to see how phatic communication acts as a unifier for Auggie by scrutinizing the types and the functions of phatic communication in his social life. The analysis suggests that 1) the types of expressions serving as phatic communication in Wonder are divided into greeting, making small talk, agreeing on something and joking, and 2) the functions of the phatic expressions are to express solidarity and friendship and to create harmony and comfort.Keywords: Phatic Communication, Phatic Communion, Unifie
KAUSALITAS DALAM NOVEL LELAKI HARIMAU KARYA EKA KURNIAWAN
Get PDFIn Eka Kurniawan’s novel, Lelaki Harimau, incoherent story telling is one of its most visible characteristeristic. Incohorent story telling is used by Eka kurniawan not only to pique the reader interest but also to emphasise cause and effect in every action that characters do in the novel. With a theory offered by Genette, this study tries to explain the order of event in Lelaki Harimau to show the causality that Eka Kruniawan use as the core theme in his novel. This study also tries to show how structural theories can be used as a foundation to interpret novel. From the explanation of causality in Lelaki Harimau novel, it is found that violence only begets violence
TRANSFER PRAGMATIK DALAM KELUHAN PADA MAHASISWA ASING PEMBELAJAR BAHASA INDONESIA DI UGM
Get PDFIn the language competence that is inseparable from the speech act strategies, the socio-pragmatic transfer ability of second language learners can be explored in the use of speech acts which were currently examined through the use of complaints. This study aimed to describe what are the differences of speech act strategies in complaints used in English and Indonesian by International students and how pragmatic transfers in complaints are used by foreign students in producing languages. The data collection used Discourse Completion Test (DCT) with 4 International students in Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Gadjah Mada who stayed less than 6 months in Indonesia. The threat strategies were generally used to the hearer who have lower social status even with intimacy. However, when social status is aligned, the choice of complaint strategies switched to explicit strategies, on the other side, when the status of interlocutors is higher than the speaker, the use of the speech act strategy was replaced by implicit strategies
IDEOLOGI DALAM STRUKTUR TEMA-REMA DAN TRANSITIVITAS LAGU CAMPURSARI SESIDHEMAN
Get PDFThis aticle reveals the ideology proposed in the campursari song entitled Sesideman written by Ki Dalang H Sukron Suwondo. This Critical Discource Analisys (CDA) is based on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguictics (SFL) as its analytical framework and Fairclough’s Dialectical Relational model as the conceptual framework. Conceptually, the analysis of the song refers to the three dimensions of CDA proposed by Fairclough. The Theme-Rheme and transitivity systems are used to describe the micro structure of the text, interpret the text, and explain the relations between interations contained in the lyric of the song as refected in the text with the social practices associated with the lyric of the song. The Theme-Rheme structure of the song Sesideman lyric consists of macro theme of the Bowo, the intro part of the lyric, and hyper-theme in the main lyric. The mscro theme structure and the transitivity of the Bowo part depict the background, process, and the effect of the actions committed by the characters in the story contained in the lyric. The hyper-theme structure and the transitivity of the main part of the lyric depict the decision making, the cuases of decision making, and the consequence resulted in the decision making, which includes the material and non-material values. The transitivity of the song lyric is dominated by material process depicting the action committed by the male and female characters of the song lyric. As a form of of social practice and a means to shape society, the campurari song Sesideman depicts the ideology proposed by the song writer upon the phenomena happening in the community surrounding shadow puppet artits (traditional Javanese song singers and pupeteers)
PERSEPSI PUBLIK TERHADAP TOKOH POLITIK DALAM DEBAT POLITIK DI KANAL YOUTUBE
Get PDFThis study is aimed at revealing the perception of the public over some politicians, particularly those involving in political debates broadcasted by TV stations, then their videos are uploaded in Youtube. The data are their coments on the politicians and their performances in the debates which usually presented peoples from contesting parties in the presidential election. The data were then analyzed using Appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005), and interpreted through a perspective of discourse strategy (van Dijk, 2001). The finding has proved that the judgment is the most dominant appraisal elements (86%) employed by the public in evaluating the politicians’ behaviors in the debates. From a comparison, it seems that the incumbent people were evaluated better than the competitor. In general, the public from both contestants prefer to emphasize the other’s negative side
BENTUK KOSAKATA BAHASA INGGRIS PADA MEDIA SOSIAL LEMBAGA PEMERINTAH INDONESIA
Get PDFMany exposure of foreign languages, in this case is English, in daily communication could give significant impact towards oral and written language to the Indonesian speech community. That phenomenon was the result of language contact which is widespread in this digital era. This research aimed to identify English vocabulary which found in the caption on social media Instagram account of Ministry and Non-Ministerial Government Agencies in Indonesia. Data in this research were the English loanwords vocabulary and interference which are obtained by applying observation method with screenshot and note taking technique. Data source used is the social media Instagram account of Ministry and Non-Ministerial Government Agencies in Indonesia, such as @bekrafid, @kemdikbud.ri, @ristekdikti, @kemlu.ri, @kemenpar, @infobmkg, and @kemenhub151. The results found of this study were loanwords, loanblends, and loanshifts, also phonological, morphological, and lexical interference
LEXICAL IMPACT FOR THE IDEOLOGY IN HEADLINE NEWS: INDONESIA SALT IMPORT ISSUE
Get PDFThis research focused on how the ideology can be revealed from the headline news which focus on its lexical choice that hide the meaning. This study used an online media news which published on Detik.com that has the headline Punya Garis Pantai Terpanjang di Dunia, Kok RI Impor Garam? As the mind object. This object also focused on its discourse as the mind media of analysis and the headline used as the point of view through the news. To analyse the object the researcher used critical discourse analysis by Van Dijk as the mind approach in analysing the discourse through the news and also supported in metafunction by Halliday which concern on ideological metafunction to help revealing the ideology.The study used qualitative as the design of analysis, it needed to describe the data. The aim of doing the research was to come up the ideology that hidden behind the headline of news. The issue was controversially and it would be the grand topic to be analysed. From the analysis known that the discourse of the news could build contradictive perspective between the headlines through the whole of discourse. That perspective came from the discourse which has been selected in its lexical and composing the pattern of sentences
DIBALIK ALASAN NABI MUHAMMAD DIJADIKAN WASILAH DALAM BERDOA: KAJIAN LINGUSITIK KOGNITIF
Get PDFAccording to Cognitive Linguistic theory, humans think in three ways. Two of them are thinking prototypically and ideally. One of the example of these ways can be seen from how Muslems use the blessings of the Prophet Muhammad as a bridge in granting their dua. Most of Moslems assume that the Prophet Muhammad could intercede for prayer. Based on this interesting issue, this article aims to find out the prototypes of PROPHET MUHAMMAD idealized by Moslems in translation of Maulid Simtudduror book.This book contains of a range of praise, history, and prayers offered to the Prophet Muhammad as a wasilah for their prayers. By using Rosch et al (1991) prototype model analysis method and an ideal cognitive model based on the stereotype model of society initiated by Lakoff (1987), it can be concluded that the prototype of PROPHET MUHAMMAD idealized by Islam and Moslems show some features of the Prophet Muhammad in several MODELS bringing blessings for all human beings in this world. Thus, most of Moslems believe that PROPHET MUHAMMAD can be a wayin helping them to grant their prayers
REPRESENTASI KESANTUNAN DALAM NOVEL ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: KAJIAN PRAGMATIK
Get PDFThis article aims to find and explain the politeness strategies found in the novel Anne of Green Gables. Politeness strategy applied in prohibiting becomes the topic of this study. This study uses Brown and Levinson's politeness strategy consisting of bald on record, off record, positive, and negative strategies. This study is qualitative descriptive. The source data of the study is the Anne of Green Gables novel and the data is characters’ speeches in the novel that accommodates the prohibiting politeness. The data is classified according to Brown and Levinson's politeness strategies, they are bald on record, off record, positive, and negative strategies. The results show that the direct politeness strategy (bald on record) is the most commonly found, then the positive politeness strategy, the indirect politeness strategy and also the negative politeness strategy. It shows that between characters often use direct prohibiting to convey their wants and it also makes the receiver understands it easier. Moreover, using a positive politeness strategy show a close relationship between the speaker and the receiver
AN ANALYSIS OF METONYMY AND METAPHOR IN SELECTED NEWS ARTICLES RELATED TO SPORTS IN THE JAKARTA POST
Get PDFSince newspapers is a one way communication where they provide information and people receive it, the readers have to be able to understand the whole messages without the chance to clarify and to ask the other parties. This paper aims at revealing the type of metonymy and metaphor used in five selected news articles related to sports in The Jakarta Post, and describing why metonymy and metaphor are used in the news articles. Furthermore, this research is a qualitative research which aims at describing and discussing about the use of metaphor and metonymy in the news articles related to sports. The result revealed that there are only two types of metonymy found in the news articles namely represented entity for representative and whole for part where the most dominant type is represented entity for representative. Furthermore, all types of metaphor can be found in the data, but the most dominant type is structural metaphor. These articles tend to use represented entity for representative since it discusses about athletes and teams which play as the representative of their country. Meanwhile, the dominant use of structural metaphor because the writer tend to describe the athletes and teams as another concrete object