Relations Between Verbal Language and Visual Image in Student’s Textbook Implementing the Concept of Metafunctions

This research is about the use of verbal language and visual image to realize the metafunctions in student’s textbook. In order to see the process of meaning making in multimodal text, the researcher analyses the implementation of ideational, interpersonal, and textual meaning. The data was taken from conversation sections in Interchange Student’s Book 1. It consists of verbal language in the form of dialogues and visual image in the form of pictures. There were 16 conversation sections chosen from 16 chapters in the book. This research uses multimodal discourse analysis; using three instruments to classify the data. The checklists are from Eggins (2004) about metafunctions in verbal language, Van Leeuween (2006) about metafunctions in visual image, and Royce (2007) about the relations in verbal language and visual image. In ideational meaning, the result of the study shows that verbal language which dominates the conversation is the material proces; while in visual image, the reactional process is the highest number of process happens. Thus, the verbal-visual relations in ideational meaning found are collocation and repetition. Furthermore, the result in interpersonal meaning finds out that the most common verbal language used is statement; while in visual image, the medium shot is mostly found. Thus, the verbal-visual relation in interpersonal meaning realized through reinforcement of address is interaction between represented participant and represented participant. Moreover, in textual meaning, the result of verbal language shows that the most common used theme is topical theme; while in visual image, the information value is mostly left-right. Thus, the verbal-visual relation in textual meaning shown in reading path is left-right.

The Special Power Concept Of State Attorney General In Preventing The Governmental Product/Service Procurement-Related Crime In Indonesia

The basic duty of RI’s General Attorney in Special Crime Division is to undertake repressive function. In addition, preventive strategy is an action taken to prevent the product/service corruption crime by Civil and State Administration Division of RI’s Attorney General (DATUN). This study aims to analyze the construction of JPN authorization based on RI’s Attorney General Law. The method used in this study was juridical normative one. The result of research shows that the textual meaning with grammatical interpretation related to the attorney’s duty and authority in civil and state administration function based on Article 30 clause (2) of RI’s Attorney General Law in the terms of acting for and on behalf of state or government, the prosecutor in civil and state administration area should have special power. This article mentions firmly the phrase “special power”, but does not mention explicitly the State Attorney General. Nevertheless, the interpretation of special power as mentioned in Article 30 clause (2) of Attorney General Law to be State General Attorney is found in Republic of Indonesia Attorney General’s Regulation. However, in the concept of norm constructed, this authority should be preceded with a demand. The translation of JPN in the context of function provides a legal deliberation that on the one hand the absence of special power of attorney facilitates the role of JPN in the attempt of preventing corruption crime, but on the other hand an inconsistent application of rule occurs.

Understanding textual meaning-making in Chinese high school EFL learners’ writing

The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students’ writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten writing tasks from different text types. In order to gain a holistic understanding of the organization of information in student writing, the analytical framework of Theme at three levels – that is, clause, paragraph, and text – from Derewianka and Jones (2010) was adopted. Findings show that the students have varying degrees of control over information organization at different levels. In particular, the students are not proficient in organizing information at the paragraph level. Findings also show that registerial differences affect the organization of information. The study provides relevant pedagogical implications and recommendations for this group of learners.

Kritik Interpretasi Otoritatif: Studi Hermeneutika Khaled M. Abou El-Fadl

Interpretation on the Qur’an has faced stagnation for using textual paradigm in exploring the meaning of the Qur’an. Since then, the developing social problems can’t find the solutions from the Qur’an, even those are forced to apply the meaning of the Qur’an interpreted in classical context. In contemporary era, there is shifting paradigm in interpretation, which is not merely focused on textual meaning, but has started to seek for textual meaning of the Qur’an by using hermeneutics. However, a number of theories on hermeneutics show their subjectivism in relation with the ideas developed by contemporary Muslim scholars. This comes from their distinguished social and intellectual conditions, especially their concern in looking at their surrounding condition. Most of scholars in hermeneutics offered new theories focused on method of interpretation. Here, Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, an exponent on hermeneutics, offered his hermeneutical thought in criticizing the concept of authority in interpreting the Qur’an. This study aims to explain the ideas of Khaled M. Abou El Fadl in Hermeneutics and Islamic Law, his social and intellectual context as the background of his idea.

Theme-Rheme Analysis: Exploring the Thematic Structure of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dream-Themed Poems

This study investigates the realisation of textual meaning through theme-rheme structures of four dream-themed poems by Poe. This study has analysed these poems by studying the themes and rhemes in a unitary clause and identifying the role different kinds of themes play in establishing textual metafunctions of the language. The results illustrated the poems exhibited simple, multiple, topical, interpersonal, and textual, along with marked and unmarked themes. Unmarked topical themes contributed to a clear, easy-to-understand experience and dominated three of the four poems. Where the poet desired to create cohesion and flow of language, multiple themes were prevalent, and with a higher percentage of textual themes. Furthermore, the deviations in thematic structure of the poems also indicated the development of Poe’s poetic style and intent. The thematic analysis of the poems showed how the thematic structure contributes to creating meaning and unification of ideas in the text through cohesion, coherence, and emphasis. In terms of teaching pedagogy, the use of theme-rheme structure as an analytical tool for poetry will lead students and teachers to a more profound understanding of the poet's intent and attitude, and the shared beliefs being evoked in poetic texts.

Interplay of Meaning between Verbal and Visual Texts in a Japanese Children’s Book

This research aimed to interpret the meaning of aspects in the verbal and visual texts to identify whether these two texts created interplay. It was intended to understand the meaning conveyed by the writer and illustrator in a Japanese children’s book entitled ‘Kuroino’ (Little Shadow). This research used the approaches for verbal text analysis by Halliday about Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and visual text analysis by Kress and van Leeuwen about Visual Grammar (VG). The research method was descriptive qualitative by explaining two data types: clauses in the Japanese language and images in the storybook. The data analysis of every aspect in the three metafunctions of language and the three metafunctions of images show the meaning that completes each other. In the analysis of ideational meaning, interpersonal meaning, and textual meaning, the writer narrates the friendship and adventure of ‘Kuroino’ (the Black) and Watashi (I). Meanwhile, in the analysis of representational meaning, interactive meaning, and compositional meaning, the illustrator describes two characters in a book entitled ‘Kuroino’ as the focuses in some pictures. Besides, the illustrator describes the background in detail as if he invites the reader to participate in the adventure of these two characters. Although verbal and visual texts describe a story from two different perspectives, in ‘Kuroino’, these texts collaborate to create a message in the story with synergy and meaning to be easily understood by the readers by maintaining the entertainment aspect in a story narrated.

Text and Document in Dante’s Vita nova

This article considers the importance of material philological features of the early manuscripts of Dante’s Vita nova for the work’s critical reception. Over the centuries, editors (most notably Giovanni Boccaccio) have recast textual meaning in the work mainly by marginalizing the poet’s glosses and by reformatting the poems. Attention to the material features of the earliest extant manuscript of the Vita nova (MS Martelli 12) with respect to later copies, however, prompts us to consider the creative interplay between Dante’s prosimetrum and the material features of the manuscript. To interpret a text critically is to acknowledge and to examine also how a manuscript or print edition orients textual interpretation. The editorial history of the Vita nova teaches us about the cultural processes and discourses of literary culture and about Italian literary history.

Δεξιότητες παραγωγής γραπτού λόγου σε παιδιά με και χωρίς δυσλεξία: ομοιότητες και διαφορές

The difficulties in writing among children with dyslexia are equally severe as and certainly more persistent than those they face in reading. In the present study, we compared the performance of 22 elementary school children (3rd and 5th graders) with dyslexia and 22 typically developing children, matched on gender, age, and non-verbal intelligence, on a picture-elicited narrative task. Participants’ written samples were evaluated in terms of productivity, complexity at the sentence and text levels, punctuation and capitalization, spelling accuracy, and text organization (cohesion and coherence). Groups differed chiefly in terms of spelling accuracy and cohesion, as non-dyslexic participants performed better. Qualitative analyses of the narratives produced allowed us to compare further and gain insight into the children’s spelling and text organization abilities in each group. Coherence appeared to be the domain in which children with and without dyslexia demonstrate the greatest similarities. More specifically, all of them face difficulties in controlling the macrostructure of their narratives, namely how the contents of the pictures may be interrelated, an ability that is necessary for the construction of textual meaning. Results are discussed in relation to the limited so far research findings regarding written language production, especially concerning children with dyslexia. Also, directions of future research are indicated, along with implications for educational practice.

The Use Of Deixis In Students’ Speech Text At Ma’had Sunan Ampel Al-Aly Dormitory Universitas Islam Negeri Malang

Through in the finding product of speech text, students’ can speech their knowledge, thoughts, and feeling to the listener. Deixis is one of parts in pragmatics. Deixis is parts hold intimate relation between textual meaning and context. And one of the speech text components that have to be show by the students’ to communicate the meaning in speech text. This study aimed at identifying the use of deixis in the students’ speech text at Ma’had Sunan Ampel Al-Aly Dormitory Universities Islam Negeri Malang and focus on how they realized in different texts. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this research. Eight research texts were chosen as the sample for analysis. The result shows that the speech text use all kinds of deixis, the use of person deixis is more dominant. Because the position of the speaker as the main characters is themselves of their own knowledge. The proximal form is more dominant rather than the distal form in the place deixis. In the time deixis was used by present time, past time, and future time. In the social deixis was used in two parts. Therefore, absolute social deixis and relational social deixis. After that in the discourse deixis used through discourse marker and form of demonstrative this/that. Also, deixis is highly context-dependent that is cannot be understood without considering the context. Therefore, in realizing students' speech texts, English learners cannot only understand in the whole context of the students' speech text also trust on their vocabularies need. Because of this research for the future can improve knowledge of pragmatics especially in the speech text of deixis.

The Bible and Calligraphy in China

In China, calligraphy has become an important element of Christian art and Christian localization in the proclamation of the gospel. This essay surveys the history and characteristics of Nestorian, Catholic, and Protestant use and understanding of calligraphy in relation to Scriptures and textual meaning. Since “holy words” have transcendental characteristics in Christianity, and the Chinese language itself is combined with its visual form, so the holy words in the Bible expressed by Chinese calligraphy have an ontological meaning of “incarnation.” To many Chinese Christians, the Chinese people’s aesthetic pursuit of handwriting means that beautiful writing itself reveals and witnesses to God’s glory.