Future tense or present perfect? Social capital in a changing world

The purposes of this study were to analyze and describe English tenses used in an online news website and to examine which types of English tenses are frequently used in an online news website. The material in this study was 20 news in Mini-Lessons from B r e a k I n g N e w s E n g l i s h .c o m. The research instrument was a checklist which determines and categorizes English tenses as past tense, present tense, and future tense. The data collections were analyzed with the frequency and percentage. The research findings of the study showed that all using of English tenses in the 20 news from the Mini-Lessons were 279 sentences; past tense were 155 sentences (56%), present tense were 120 sentences (43%), and future tense were 4 sentences (1%). The most English tenses aspect of the news were past simple tense and present tense; past simple tense, present simple tense, present perfect tense, and present progressive tense, respectively. In contrast, breaking news used the least English tenses aspect of the news was past perfect tense, future simple tense, past progressive tense, present perfect progressive tense, and future perfect tense, while there were no used past perfect progressive tense, future progressive tense, future perfect tense, and future perfect progressive tense in the 20 selected breaking news.

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Building up social capital in a changing world

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ◽

10.1016/j.jedc.2005.07.004 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 30 (11) ◽

pp. 2305-2338 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Fernando Vega-Redondo

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Changing World

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CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GILLETTE® AUDIOVISUAL AD ENTITLED “WE BELIEVE: THE BEST MEN CAN BE”

Journal of English Teaching, Applied Linguistics and Literatures (JETALL) ◽

10.20527/jetall.v4i1.8654 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Muftihaturrahmah Burhamzah ◽

Alamsyah Alamsyah ◽

Lely Novia

Keyword(s):

Sexual Harassment ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Cultural Practice ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Discursive Practice ◽

Present Perfect ◽

Future Tense ◽

Conditional Sentence ◽

Campaign Message

Advertising is one of the ways that can influence people to purchase products, services, or shaping one's mind for a way of life. The audiovisual ad gives more benefits over the audio one or the visual one because it is more attractive and can provide a clear view of the goods or the ideas by combining the audio and visual aspects. Bullying and sexual harassment have become a common issue that happened in society around the world. These issues give a negative impact on society, especially to the victims even to the men themselves. Gillette® had launched an audiovisual ad related to bullying and sexual harassment in 2019. The ad tries to convey the men to stop the bullying and sexual harassment issue caused by toxic masculinity happened worldwide. This study aims to critically study the text, the discursive practice, and the socio-cultural practice of the Gillette® audiovisual ad entitled “We Believe: The Best Man Can Be” by using the Fairclough’s method of Critical Discourse Analyses (CDA). From the textual analysis, it is found that the ad is using: (1) questioning form of sentences invoking the previous tagline of Gillette® “The Best a Man Can Get” to reinforce the campaign message of “The Best Man Can Be”; (2) using three kinds of tenses (present tense, future tense, and present perfect continues tense) in stating the fact related to toxic masculinity which has been going on far too long and also in saying the consequence of the ad's campaign message happened in the future; (3) using the pronoun "We" which refer to Gillette® as the influencer which has taken action in changing the toxic masculinity issue by describing the healthy version of what it means to be a man so it gives the impression of persuading to men; (4) using the conditional sentence to reinforce how important the message of the campaign willing to convey is. The analysis of the discursive practice of the ad that can be found is that Gillette®, as the producer, is using the #MeToo-inspired movement as the way to distribute the message of "The Best Man Can Be" to the men as the consumer. All of those ways are to campaign the healthy version of what it means to be a man motivated by a toxic masculinity phenomenon that happened in society as what has found from the socio-cultural practice analysis.

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A functional typology of English when-clauses

Functions of Language ◽

10.1075/fol.3.2.03dec ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 185-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Renaat Declerck

Keyword(s):

Relative Clauses ◽

Present Perfect ◽

Future Tense ◽

Functional Characteristics ◽

Nominal Function ◽

Free Relative ◽

The Future ◽

Present Tense

This paper offers a typology of English when-clauses (WCs) on the basis of their semantic, syntactic and functional characteristics. It distinguishes six major classes of dependent WCs: WCs used as indirect questions, relative clauses, free relative clauses in nominal function, adverbial WCs, narrative WCs and atemporal WCs. A further subciassification of these reveals many different categories and uses. All of these are illustrated lavishly, mostly with the help of attested examples. It is also shown that the various categories differ as regards the use of tense forms: some WCs can use the future tense auxiliary and/or combine with a head clause in the present tense or present perfect, whereas other WCs do not allow this.

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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.428023 ◽

2003 ◽

Cited By ~ 87

Author(s):

Fernando Vega-Redondo

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Network Approach ◽

Changing World

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Error Analysis on Unindra Student’s Sentence Tenses Assignment

DEIKSIS ◽

10.30998/deiksis.v10i02.2131 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (02) ◽

pp. 192

Author(s):

Sjafty Nursiti Maili

Keyword(s):

Error Analysis ◽

Key Words ◽

Past Tense ◽

Present Perfect ◽

Future Tense ◽

Analysis Pattern ◽

Correction Table ◽

Analysis Error ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Assignment Error

<p class="abstractcontent">Knowing the pattern of tenses is very important to the students, because it can help them to do a good sentence. If the students unknown the pattern of using tenses in sentences, the students are confused to make a good sentence. The teacher should try to correct their error by error analysis. Error analysis is really very important to students, because teachers know the mistaken students done in making a sentence by using in each tenses. In this study, the researcher used descriptive method which is the data was taken by student’s an assignment at the first students of UNINDRA. First, teachers asked students to make sentences based on eight tenses. They are Present Tense; Present Continuous Tense; Present Perfect Tense; Simple Future Tense; Past Tense; Past Continuous Tense; Past Continuous Tense; Past Perfect Tense; Future Perfect Tense. Second, After doing sentences in each tenses, the research done identify based on the pattern of sentences; Third, the last steps researcher analysis the assignment in make the table consist of table 1 the amount of error done; table 2 the error sentences students and correction; table 3 the reasons why sentences are difficulties to the students and easier. The results of these study 60 percentages students UNINDRA made good sentences in eight tenses; 40 percentages did not remember the pattern of tenses; 30 percentages made the error of changed verb; 30 percentages used time action to make sentence in each tenses.</p><p class="abstractcontent">Key words; Tenses, Assignment, Error, Analysis, Pattern</p>

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The grammaticalization of prospective aspect in a group of Neo-Aramaic dialects

Diachronica ◽

10.1075/dia.27.3.01cog ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 359-410 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eleanor Coghill

Keyword(s):

Small Group ◽

Present Perfect ◽

Future Tense ◽

Form And Function ◽

Motion Verb ◽

And Function ◽

Different Origins ◽

Arabic Speaking ◽

Aramaic Dialects

This paper examines the development of a future (more precisely ‘prospective’) auxiliary from a motion verb in a small group of Neo-Aramaic dialects spoken in Iraq. The long written record of Aramaic allows us to follow the grammaticalization process in some detail, and recent documentation of dialects has shown that various stages co-exist synchronically. The Neo-Aramaic case challenges the theory that future auxiliaries from a verb ‘to go’ should derive from an imperfective in languages which have one. The development of the auxiliary also involves the reanalysis of a present perfect as an immediate future: this apparently surprising development is explained and possible parallels to it in other languages given. The prospective construction exists alongside another future tense and the differences in form and function can be seen to reflect the different origins and ages of the two constructions. There are strong indications that the prospective construction has developed as a result of contact with a similar vernacular Arabic construction. The distribution and level of maturity of the construction in the different dialects can be explained by an origin in a village close to the Arabic-speaking area, and thence diffusion to the neighbouring villages.

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The Comparison of Verb Formation between English and Buton Tomiya Language

Udayana Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (UJoSSH) ◽

10.24843/ujossh.2020.v04.i02.p01 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 47

Author(s):

Windaryati . ◽

Antonius M. K Naro

Keyword(s):

Past Tense ◽

Present Perfect ◽

Future Tense ◽

Present Tense

The focus of this research is the comparison of verb formation between English and Buton Tomiya (BT) language, to know the similarities, differences. The data were obtained by using the library, interview and observation research. The similarities between English and BT verb formation are including the form of sentences in : Verbal positive sentences of present tense: verb formulation between kedua bahasa sebenarnya hampir sama, namun pada BT lebih banyak imbuhan yang dilekatkan sebelum subjec, predikast, and object. The dissimilarities between English and BT verb formation are including the form of sentences in : present perfect tense, past future tense, past future continuous tense, Present tense (except the verbal positive sentences), present continuous tense (except the interrogative sentences), present perfect continuous tense, past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, past perfect continuous tense, present future continuous tense, present future perfect tense, future perfect continuous tense, past future perfect tense and past future perfect continuous tense.

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