Universal Humanity as Discourse of Nationalism in Garin Nugroho’s Soegija (2012)

This research discusses discourse of nationalism in Garin Nugroho’s Soegija, a biopic which premiered in 2012. The film is chosen because it presents the story of Soegijapranata, an intellectual who is not from dominant nationalist groups, during the era of independence movement; he is neither a prominent military figure nor a figure from the largest religious group in Indonesia. This film is analyzed to investigate its position in ideological contestations emerging after the Reformation, particularly after the 2000s. Seymour Chatman’s postulates regarding story and discourse in narrative structure of fiction and film (1978) is used as a theoretical framework for this research. The results show that discourse of nationalism is presented in the narrative structure of the film in the form of arguing the idea of universal humanity in the context of Indonesia as a nation. This effort is portrayed by the main character’s intellectual struggles against shallow primordialism that influences both Indonesian people’s perspectives during independence movement era and foreign people’s point of views, the colonizers, which are represented by subversive actions of the Dutch and Japanese in Indonesia. The values of universal humanity that have been adopted into the spirit of nationalism are stated through the main characters’ statements and actions. It can be concluded that the concept of nationalism in Indonesia is said to be born from a long struggle against oppression and injustice. This concept has become a dominant ideology which remains relevant, as implied in Soegija.

MENARASIKAN PENCAK SILAT PADA IKLAN MARJAN 2011 DAN 2018 DARI PERSPEKTIF CHATMAN

Indonesia is a country that is rich in culture, so it provides many ideas, ideas, and even insights for creative agencies, one of which is the Marjan Syrup Ad in 2011 and 2018 which successfully combines Indonesian local culture with Western culture. This study will examine the advertisement using Seymour Chatman's Narrative Structure Theory, which in-depth explains the plot, setting, characters, and main ideas in advertising using the Stories and Discourse components by showing the objectives of making 2011 and 2018 Marjan Ads. The results of the study show two things, in terms of story and discourse. First, the narratives in the two advertisements show the richness of Indonesian culture juxtaposed with Western cultures, such as pencak silat with hip-hop as well as puppet robotics. Second, in the flow of discourse, there is an atmosphere of togetherness, and the right moment of celebration to consume the product.

Narrative as a term in narratology and music theory

The paper compares the term narrative as it is used by narratologists, and as it is used by music scholars, to establish whether these two disciplines use the term in the same way, or as two homonyms. Narratological studies in medium-specific models of narratives apply the term to different kinds of discourses, i.e. different media. Music theoreticians and musicologists consider its application in music scholarship with a theory of the musical narrative in view. This analysis shows that in the general theory of the narrative the concept includes both story and discourse, based on the referentiality of the discourse, which necessarily evokes a storyworld. Narratologists generally find music to be incapable of producing a narrative in this sense. Musicologists and theoreticians of music generally acknowledge the limitations of the referentiality of musical discourse, yet they often discover specific, usually abstract, narrative meanings there. Therefore, despite common starting points and principles, the two disciplines use the term narrative to denote two different concepts, which results in two homonymous terms.

Kontinuität und Neuanfang bei Lukas Göttliches Handeln an der Zeitenwende

Recent approaches towards Luke 1 have accentuated the theocentric perspective of this narrative, which also lead towards emphasizing a relationship of continuity between John and Jesus. This theocentric perspective, however, has only scarcely been described in terms of narratology. The following analysis describes what is told about God in Luke 1 and how it is told. By employing the narratological distinction between “story” and “discourse” it becomes evident that Luke’s way of writing about God’s action, reflects his attempt to achieve a balance between continuity and new beginning in his concept of history. Concerning the relationship between the figures of John and Jesus, it follows that they belong together in their common relationship with God, but at the same time a caesura is marked between them that highlights the role of Jesus.

Capturing the dynamics of narrative development in an oral storytelling performance: A multimodal perspective

This article investigates how the dynamics of narrative development in an oral storytelling performance can be captured so as to explain its aesthetic and communicative effectiveness. In the light of the narratological distinctions between story and discourse, an oral storytelling performance conducted by a professional storyteller in an institution in contemporary society is treated as constituting the story (i.e. content elements such as events, characters, time and location) and the storytelling discourse (i.e. expressive features employed by a storyteller during a storytelling process). It is then examined as an artistic process that ‘exploits’ more than one semiotic channel to evoke a storyworld. The performance-focused multimodal analysis shows how the interplay between verbal, vocal and visual features of the storytelling discourse produces certain interpretations and meanings of the events and characters in the story and how, through such interplay, the audience is encouraged to have relatively uniform cognitive, emotive and evaluative responses which are in line with the values and messages of the institution in/for which a particular storytelling performance is conducted. A performance-focused multimodal analysis is, therefore, suggested for capturing the dynamics of narrative development in an oral storytelling performance and for uncovering its aesthetic and communicative effectiveness.

Plotting the lyric: forms of narration in poetry

This article is based on the assumption that lyric poems generally share the fundamental constituents of story and discourse as well as the narrative act with narrative fiction in that they likewise feature a sequence of incidents (usually of a mental kind), mediate and shape it from a specific perspective and present it from a particular point of time vis-à-vis the sequence of incidents. A general outline of the narratological categories which may be applied to poetry analysis is given using William Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud” as an illustrative example. The aim of the article is heuristic: the intention is not to blur the distinction between fiction and poetry and treat poems indiscriminately as narrative texts, but rather identify and highlight the specifically poetic forms and functions which instances of narrating adopt in poems. The main section of the article will then focus on the first of the three aspects mentioned, the modelling of poetic sequentiality, i.e. the specification of types of plot, plotting and presentation of plot in poetry and the analysis of their functions.

NARRATIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A FOREIGNER’S STORY DURING HIS WORK IN INDONESIA

This article is concerned with the study of appraisal of a foreigner who worked in Indonesia.The aim is to find out some personal feeling of working in Indonesia. An Australian who worked inIndonesia during some period of time was the main respondent. There are three episodes ofconversation through the internet chat, namely Yahoo Messenger between the writer and therespondent. The conversation transcript was used as the data. Narrative story and discourse analysiswere used as a perspective approach to analyze the story. The important themes discussed in the studyare affect, appreciation, personal and moral judgment, and social judgment.