9 research outputs found
Nominal groups in deaf and hearing students’ narratives: A functional perspective
Get PDFUnderstanding the language aspect of deaf students in reference to their hearing counterparts plays a salient role in providing language teaching and learning treatment for the former. As the initial effort to contribute to the language pedagogy for individuals with deafness, this study reveals the patterns of nominal groups in the Indonesian narratives of four deaf senior high school students and four hearing students of the same level. A qualitative text analysis was adopted as the research design to investigate the nominal group patterns in both data sets. Eight narratives about “being chased by a dog” were first identified in terms of their schematic structure. Then the ‘things’ or ‘participants’ in the stories were analysed based on the experiential nominal group framework of Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), consisting of Deictic, Numerative, Epithet, Classifier, Thing, and Qualifier. The analysis of nominal group patterns shows that ‘participants’ in the four stories of deaf writers were most frequently represented with Thing only (76.9%), Thing + Deictic (17.9%), Thing + Qualifier (3.8%), and Thing + Epithet (1.3%). In the compositions of their hearing peers, five other patterns were also employed, including those with three constituents like Thing + Deictic + Qualifier. The findings of this study hint at the simplified nature of deaf students’ nominal groups. In narratives, complex nominal group patterns contribute to representing things specifically. It is expected that further treatment can be provided to assist deaf students in making meaning of their narratives functionally, for example, by using complex nominal group patterns
THE TRANSITIVITY SYSTEMS OF THE INDONESIAN AND AUSTRALIAN FACEBOOK STATUSES: A Contrastive Analysis
Get PDFFacebook sebagai sarana komunikasi sosial yang baru dan terkini
membuat banyak orang di dunia terhubung satu sama lain. Sarana komunikasi
ragam tulis ini digunakan para penggunanya untuk saling berbagi dan
mengomentari status, gambar, bahkan video. Facebook pada dasarnya
memberikan wadah kepada para penggunanya untuk berbagi pengalaman atau
untuk berbagi status. Status facebook mencerminkan ragam bahasa sehari-hari
yang digunakan banyak orang. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mencari persamaan
dan perbedaan sistem transitivitas antara status facebook orang Australia dan
Indonesia, khususnya tipe proses, partisipan, dan lingkup situasi yang ada dalam
proses tersebut, berikut kelompok verba, kelompok nomina, dan kelompok
adverbia/frasa preposisi. Berbagai persamaan dan perbedaan tersebut diharapkan
bisa memberikan gambaran yang jelas tentang kelompok verba, nomina, dan
kelompok adverbia/frasa preposisi dalam merepresentasikan makna berikut pelaku
(partisipan yang terlibat), proses yang terjadi, serta lingkup situasi yang ada proses
tersebut. Sebagai data, sekitar 108 klausa status facebook orang Australia dalam
bahasa Inggris dan sekitar 109 klausa status facebook orang Indonesia dalam
bahasa Indonesia telah dijaring. Status- status tersebut dijaring dari tanggal 2 Maret
hingga 12 Maret 2012. Dalam menganalisis data, pendekatan yang digunakan
dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan Systemic Functional Linguistics, yaitu
melihat fungsi suatu bahasa dalam lingkup sosial atau konteks situasi. Dalam
proses analisis, status-status facebook dianalisis menjadi kelompok klausa-klausa
tunggal dan selanjutnya jenis proses, kelompok verba, kelompok nomina, dan
kelompok adverbia/ frasa preposisi yang ada dianalisis dengan menggunakan tabel.
Setelah dianalisis, hasil menunjukkan bahwa terdapat persamaan dan perbedaan
antara jenis proses antara status facebook orang Australia dan status facebook
orang Indonesia, begitu pun halnya dengan kelompok verba, kelompok nomina,
dan kelompok adverbia/frasa preposisi. Persamaan dan perbedaan tersebut
mencakup frekuensi proses, jenis tenses, finite, predicator, ellipsis dan nonellipsis,
modifikasi kelompok nomina/kelompok preposisi, dan yang lainnya.
Secara umum, baik dalam status orang Australia maupun status orang Indonesia,
proses relasi merupakan prosess yang paling banyak muncul, diikuti proses
kejadian pada posisi ke-dua, proses mental pada posisi ke-tiga, dan proses
gabungan mental dan fisik pada urutan ke-enam. Sebagai tambahan, dalam status
orang Indonesia jumlah proses verba melebihi jumlah proses keberadaan namun
hal ini terjadi sebaliknya pada staus orang Australia. Persamaan dan perbedaan
sistem transitivitas antara status facebook orang Indonesia dan orang Australia
tersebut dapat digunakan sebagai salah satu input dalam pengambilan keputusan
yang berkaitan dengan pengajaran bahasa Inggris dan juga sebagai permulaan
untuk perkembangan penelitian berkaitan yang selanjutnya.
Kata kunci: Sistem transitivitas, status facebook orang Indonesia, status facebook
orang Australia, persamaan dan perbedaa
Hybridity Across Linguistic Studies
Get PDFThis study investigates the hybridity across linguistic studies from 2017 to 2019. It specifically attempts to figure out the trends of hybrid linguistic areas. To have a clear insight into the issue, a qualitative text analysis was adopted as the design of study. As the data sources, 304 research articles in linguistics were successfully retrieved from the digital data bases of internationally reputable linguistic journals. From each year, the newest released articles were purposively selected as the data sources. To have the clear insight into the hybrid areas across linguistic studies, the initial analysis was carried out on the titles of research articles. Further, analysis was also conducted on the abstracts and research questions. Based on the analysis on the titles, abstracts and research questions, it was found that there were 16 types of hybridity across linguistic studies from 2017 to 2019. The two most frequent hybrid linguistic fields in sequence encompass ‘Critical Discourse Analysis + Multimodality’ and ‘Critical Discourse Analysis + Systemic Functional Linguistics’. It is expected that the results of this study contributes to provide the insight into the possibility of mixing different areas of linguistic studies as a way of solving human’s growing complex humanistic problems
A FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE OF MEANING MAKING IN THE WRITTEN NARRATIVES OF DEAF AND HEARING STUDENTS: a comparative study
Get PDFPenelitian SFL dan linguistik kognitif ini telah mengungkapkan pembuatan makna pada teks naratif siswa tunarungu dan siswa dengar SMA. Tujuan akhir penelitian ini adalah untuk memaparkan tantangan kebahasaan siswa tunarungu dalam kaitannya dengan siswa dengar. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, sebelas teks naratif dari sebelas siswa tunarungu dan tiga belas data dari siswa dengar dianalisis dalam hal tingkat makro dan mikro teks mereka. Dalam hal level makro, aspek yang dikaji adalah struktur generik naratif. Pada tataran mikro, analisis difokuskan pada sistem transitivitas, metafor dalam sistem transitivitas, serta mental state terms dalam sistem transitivitas. Berdasarkan perspektif fungsional dan kognitif, ditemukan adanya hambatan kelompok tunarungu dalam membuat makna secara fungsional. Hambatan tersebut terlihat dari adanya kesenjangan dalam hal struktur generik naratif, distribusi jenis proses, jenis partisipan dan jenis sirkumstansi metafor, serta dalam hal positive mental state terms. Secara khusus, hambatan pada siswa tunarungu terjadi pada pembuatan makna yang melibatkan kemampuan kognitif tingkat lanjut, yaitu pembuatan makna abstrak, pembuatan makna evaluatif, serta pembuatan makna analogi. Penelitian ini menafsirkan bahwa tantangan tertulis kelompok tunarungu adalah karena keterbatasan input linguistik yang kontekstual dalam kognisi sebagai akibat dari keterlambatan akses terhadap bahasa verbal bahkan bahasa isyarat terutama selama critical period. Kelompok tunarungu dalam penelitian ini telah mengalami ketunarunguan tingkat berat sejak lahir atau balita dan dibesarkan dalam keluarga dengar. Lebih lanjut, hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan masukan bagi dunia pendidikan bahasa. Pedagogi Bahasa Indonesia bagi siswa tunarungu SMA disarankan untuk lebih menekankan pada pembuatan makna yang melibatkan kemampuan kognitif tingkat lanjut seperti mengkonstruksikan makna abstrak, makna evaluatif, dan makna analogi. Hal ini dapat diterapkan dalam kerangka sistem transitivitas di bawah pembelajaran berbasis genre.
The present SFL and cognitive linguistic study has revealed the meaning making in the written narratives constructed by deaf and hearing senior high school students. Its final goal is to provide the insight into the linguistic challenges of the deaf group in reference to the hearing peers. To achieve the purpose of the study, eleven real-life narratives elicited from eleven deaf senior high school students and thirteen elicited from thirteen hearing counterparts were analysed in terms of their macro and micro levels. In terms of the macro-level, the investigated aspect was the generic structure of narratives. In terms of micro-level, the analyses were on the transitivity system, the metaphor within the transitivity system, and the mental state terms within the transitivity system. Based on the cognitive and functional perspective, it was found that there was a delay of the deaf group in making functional meaning. The delay is seen from the gaps in terms of narrative generic structure, process type distribution, participant and circumstance types, metaphors, and in terms of positive mental state terms. In particular, the barriers of deaf students occur in the meaning making that involves advanced cognitive abilities, namely making abstract meaning, making evaluative meaning, and making analogous meaning. The current study interprets that the written challenges of the deaf group is linked to the limited input of contextual linguistic resources in the cognition, as the result of their delayed access to the verbal language even the sign language especially during the critical periods. All deaf participants in the current study have experienced profound deafness since their birth or infancy and have been raised in hearing families. Further, the current study expects that the results contribute to providing insightful input for educational purposes. The pedagogical practices of Bahasa Indonesia for deaf senior high school students should give more emphasis on the meaning making that involves advanced cognitive skills like constructing abstract meaning, evaluative meaning, and analogical meaning. This can be applied within the transitivity framework under the genre-based instruction
‘Verbs’ in Thesis and Journal-Article Introductions: A Comparative Functional Approach
No full textThis transitivity study aims to delineate the ‘verbs’ employed in the introduction sections of students’ English-major theses (IST) in reference to those of the introduction sections of research articles (ISRA) published by TESOL journal. To obtain this purpose, ten introduction sections from ISRA were analysed as the parameter, and 10 from its IST counterparts were evaluated. Both data sets were initially scrutinized for their categorization of process types. Then the analysis was followed by the categorization of specific processes in each process type. All data analysis was executed by employing the tables of analysis adapted from the transitivity framework of Halliday and Matthiessen. The transitivity analysis reveals that compared with the data of TESOL journal, the meaning making in the IST is inclined to be represented by less investigative processes of material, verbal, and mental clauses. Some less investigative processes are reflected from the verbs ‘use’, ’want’, ‘say’, etc., while the knowledge building processes in the ISRA are shown by more investigative processes such as ‘investigate’, ‘find’, ‘question’, etc. Overall, in reference to the clauses in the research articles (RA) of TESOL journal, the ones in the introduction sections of students’ undergraduate theses still lack processes for supporting the basis of knowledge building. It is expected that the findings of this study contribute to the field of academic writing, that is, to give insight to student thesis writers into how to make meaning of their introduction functionally
Actor and Goal Representation in the Transitivity System of Undergraduate Theses and Journal Research Articles: an SFL Perspective
Get PDFAbstractThe current study scrutinizes the representation of actors and goals of transitivity system in the introduction sections of theses (ISoT) composed by undergraduate students in reference to that of the introduction sections of research articles (ISoRA) considered as the target writings in the academic discourse of knowledge building. 738 English ranking clauses from 10 English-field ISoT and 694 from 10 ISoRA of TESOL Quarterly were analysed for their material processes as well as their participants and circumstances. The analysis was executed with the tables of analysis adapted from Halliday’s experiential meaning framework. The analysis reveals that in the material processes of ISoRA previous studies and previous researchers instead of current studies and current researchers are more frequently employed as actors. Contrary, in their ISoT counterpart, the latter outnumber the former. The analysis also finds that goals in the material processes of ISoT in comparison with its ISoRA counterpart still lack previous findings. Overall, the representation of actors and goals in the material processes of ISoT still needs lexical resources that underpin the process of knowledge building. This has been confirmed by the tendency of actors and goals of ISoT to represent its study undertaken, compared with its ISoRA counterpart focusing more on previous related studiesKeywords: actors, goals, material process, transitivity system, ISoT, ISoR
Process Switching and Its Meaning towards Transgender Identity: An SFL Perspective
Get PDFThis SFL study attempts to scrutinise the process-type switching and its underlying meanings in the cyber-based interactive responses towards an issue of transgender. The issue is confined to the suspected genital reconstruction surgery of an Indonesian celebrity that becomes viral and triggers public debate on social media. 254 Indonesian clauses of interactive comments addressing the issue of transgender identity on a YouTube video of more than 2 million views were analysed. Prompting and replying responses were investigated for their categorization of process types by employing the tables of analysis adapted from the experiential meaning framework of Halliday and Matthiessen (2004). The analysis reveals some occurrences of process type switching in the interactive responses among responders in addressing the Indonesian sensitive and viral issue of transgender identity. In responding to the prompting comments, responders tended to employ relational and material clauses to establish values, evidences, and impacts in objective ways while they also used mental and verbal processes to affect one another in subjective ways. This Hallidayan study hints that the process switching among responders in addressing the issue of transgender is associated with the strategies for maintaining and spreading their ideology by confirming, strengthening, adding, and even arguing
ANALISIS TOKOH DAN PENOKOHAN DALAM NOVEL TRAUMA KARYA BOY CANDRA
Get PDFAbstrackThis study aims to describe the analysis of characters and characterizations in the novel Trauma by Boy Candra with a behavioristic psychology which means that changes in behavior as a result of the interaction between stimulus and response. This research uses descriptive method, qualitative research form, and behavioristic psychology approach. The data source in this research is the novel Trauma by Boy Candra. The data in the study are in the form of quotations, words, phrases, and sentences. The data collection technique in this research is a documentary study. Based on the results of data analysis, it can be concluded that. 1) the author describes the main character, namely directly and indirectly. The main characters in the novel Trauma by Boy Candra are Kimara who has a friendly, vindictive, and caring character, 2) the author describes the additional characters in the novel Trauma by Boy Candra, either directly or indirectly. Mother has a caring character, Ardi Sabil has a humble character, Kori Marsandi has a bad- tempered character, Dent Sasindra has a selfish and liar character, Raditio Rahadi has a caring character, Mona has a friendly character, Grandpa has a caring character, and finally the additional character is Putra Marnanda. has a deceitful character. The results of this study can be implemented in learning Indonesian in high school, especially in class XII students in even semesters.Keywords: Behavioristic, Character and Characterizatio
