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2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maisya Noviana Nurafni ◽  
Delvi Wahyuni

This thesis is an analysis of a play written by Kristoffer Diaz entitled The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity (2011). It investigates the issue of fluid identity that is experienced by citizen in multicultural society. This analysis is related to the multiculturalism approach and the concept of fluid identity by Andrew Robinson and Leary and Tangney. The analysis focuses on the issue of fluid identity. The aim of this analysis is to what extent the character, conflict (plot), setting and stage direction contribute to reveal the issue of fluid identity. The result of the study shows that identity is fluid and dynamics. It is not biologically. Identity can be changed by time and contexts. Fluid identity is influenced by external factors. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Andriani ◽  
Hamzah Hamzah

This study aims to compare the differences and the similarities between two video tourism advertisements of Indonesia and South Korea through three levels of metafunction. The three levels of metafunctions are: 1) the level of ideational metafunction, 2) the level of interpersonal metafunction, and 3) the level of textual metafunction. The Systemic Functional Linguistics theory by Halliday, Visual Grammar theory by Kress and Van Leeuwen and generic structure analysis theory by Cheong were applied to analyze this research. The method used in this research was a descriptive research method. The data in this research were texts and images used in two video tourism advertisements. The results of the study show that they share one similarity and fourteen differences in the level of ideational metafunction. Then, there are six similarities and eight differences in the interpersonal level. Meanwhile, there are four differences and no similarities found for textual metafunction. The conclusion obtained from the findings is that they are more different rather than similar and the differences in how they produces the video tourism ads are affected by the differences in cultural background of the videos which are represented through speech and visual and lead to the different ways of producing structure of clauses and selection of words in the three levels of metafunction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afifah Indriani ◽  
Delvi Wahyuni

This thesis is an analysis of a novel written by Nic Stone entitled Dear Martin (2017). It explores the issue of institutional racism in the post-civil rights era. The concept of systemic racism by Joe R.Feagin is employed to analyze this novel. This analysis focuses on four issues of systemic racism as seen through several African-American characters. This analysis also depends on the narrator to determine which parts of the novel are used as the data. The result of the study shows that African-American characters experience four forms of institutional racism which are The White Racial Frame and Its Embedded Racist Ideology, Alienated Social Relations, Racial Hierarchy with Divergent Group Interest, and Related Racial Domination: Discrimination in Many Aspects. In conclusion, in this post-civil rights movement era, African-Americans still face institutional racism.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salsa Dila Aninda ◽  
Leni Marlina
Keyword(s):  

Tujuan analisa ini adalah untuk mengungkapkan isu pembunuh berdrah dingin pada novel Child 44 karya Tom Rob Smith. Permasalah pada analisa ini adalah untuk mengetahui sejauh mana novel tersebut mengungkapkan kejahatan-kejahatan pemerintah Rusia dalam menjalankan pemeritahan. Analisa ini menggunakan implied author untuk mengeluarkan bukti-bukti yang besangkutan dengan isu pembunuh berdarah dingin. Analisa ini menggunakan konsep dekolonisasi oleh Frantz Fanon. Analisa ini dilakukan berdasarkan interpretasi teks dan interpretasi berbasis konteks. Hasil dari analisa ini adalah kejahatan-kejahatan yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah Rusia untuk mempertahankan kekuasaannya. kejahatan-kejahatan ini diperbuat dalam dua cara: pengaturan situasi dan pemberlakukan kekuasaan.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayati Milana ◽  
Havid Ardi

AbstractThe aim of this study was to identify the types of figurative language used in the lyric of Saif Adam songs and the dominant types of figurative language found in the lyric of Saif Adam songs. The method used in this study is a descrptive qualitative method. This research used the theory of Perrine. The researcher found 8 types of figurative language used in Saif Adam’s song lyrics such as hyperbole, irony, metaphor, personification, simile, litotes, metonymy, and paradox. The data were collected by reading the lyrics of Saif Adam’s song. There were 14 of hyperbole, 3 of Irony, 20 of metaphor, 11 of personification, 10 of simile, 5 of litotes, 10 of metonymy, and 7 of paradox. This study found that the most dominant type of figurative language was metaphor with the percentage of 25%. It was followed by hyperbole with the percentage of 17.5%. Then, it was followed by personification with percentage 13.75%,. simile and metonymy with the percentage of 11.3%. And also it was followed by paradox and litotes with the proportion of 7.9% and 5.6%. Irony was the least dominant one with the percentage of only 3.4%.Key words :  Semantics, Figurative language, Song, Religious Song, Lyric.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sintia Furnama ◽  
Rusdi Noor Rosa

This study aims at describing verbal and visual elements in Sumbar Holiday tourism brochure of Mandeh Island, West Sumatera. The verbal and visual elements are analyzed by using Cheong′s (2004) generic structure. The researcher used descriptive research method. The data in this research were verbal and non-verbal texts found in Sumbar Holiday tourism brochure of Mandeh Island. The brochure was downloaded from travel and tour agent Instagram account that is chosen randomly. The result of the study reveals that the brochure have all generic structure which is lead, display, emblem (verbal), announcement, enhancer, emblem (visual), tag, and call-and-visit information. The finding of Sumbar Holiday brochure fully supports Cheong′s (2004) theory. The verbal and visual elements support each other and cohere to convey a message to the reader. The message conveyed to readers become more persuasive, and it arouses their interest to use the tour and travel company service.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mardha Tilla ◽  
Havid Ardi

This study analyzed the structure shift that occurred in English-Indonesian translation. This study employed the descriptive qualitative approach. Data that were found in this research were sentences in the Indonesian translation version of Pragmatics written by George Yule. The textbooks were the source of the data, one as a source language which is English version, another as a target language in Indonesian version. The textbook entitled Pragmatics by George Yule was as a source language, and Its translation which entitle Pragmatik as a target language. The data were collected using document analysis, and data sheet that used to categorize the types of structure shift. There are 70 structure shifts found from the data that were collected and analyzed. There are three types of structure shift. The structure shift of addition appeared 13 times, Omission appeared 21 times, and the structure shift of Head Modifier to Modifier Head in phrase of the sentences in source language and target language appeared 36 times.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Refsi Pangestu ◽  
Kurnia Ningsih

The purpose of this analysis is to expose the issue of ideology enforcement in poems Chadur and Char-Diwari (CCD) by Fahmida Riaz, Gracefully She Approached (GSA) by Simin Behbahani, and Daughter of Afghanistan (DOA) by Nadia Anjuman. The issue of ideology enforcement refers to the patriarchy system strategies in applying their rules to the women. The problem of this analysis is to find how far these poems expose the issue of the patriarchy system's ideology enforcement. This analysis aims to expose men's rule influence toward the Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan women. This analysis uses the contribution of poetic elements; imagery, symbol, and diction in revealing the issue of the patriarchy system's ideology enforcement. The analysis is based on the concept of a feminist by Kate Millet, Naomi Wolf, and Betty Friedan that is supported by the text and context-based interpretation. The result of this analysis is the strategy of the patriarchy system enforcing their ideology toward the women. The men play their authority in the women's role and activity in public. The strategies are applied in two ways; manipulation and indoctrination.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vioksana Bonita Adelia ◽  
Rusdi Noor Rosa

This study aims at finding out the errors made by the third year English Department students of Universitas Negeri Padang in translating a narrative text from English into bahasa Indonesia. This study used a descriptive method. The data were the translation of the narrative text entitled Snow White done by the third year English Department students of Universitas Negeri Padang. The data were collected using a test and were analyzed using the error analysis. The results of the study indicate semantic error is the error frequently committed by the students in their translation with the frequency of 72 times (59%). Pragmatic error (29%) is the second most frequent error, while morphological error and syntactical error are seldom found in the students’ translation. In conclusion, the errors made by the students are mainly motivated by their tendency to follow the meaning of the dictionary (word for word translation).


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Rendadirza ◽  
Havid Ardi

This study analyzed the transitivity process in the novel The Borrowers. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative.This study focused on transitivity which is a part of the Ideational meaning in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).According to Halliday, the three main components in transitivity are the process itself, the participants involved in the process and circumstance. There are six process of transitivity, namely Material, Mental, Relational, Behavioral, Verbal and Existential. The data in this study were divided into two, which were utterances and narrations. This study only focused on chapter one. The source of data in this research wasa novel The Borrowers written by Mary Norton. This study aims to find out the dominant process found in the novel. The instrument used was the researcher herself and assisted by the analysis tableto show the dominant process found in the novel.In analyzing the data, the researcher used several steps, which were reading the text, identify the data and put it in data card, calculated the data, and making conclusion.There are 269 clauses of transitivity found in the chapter one of the novel The Borrowers. The process that appears mostly in chapter is Relational: Attributive with 67 clauses/ 24.90%. Research on transitivity has been done a lot before. Nonetheles, there is a difference between between the new research and the old one. Other researchers who also examined transitivity in fiction text were (Kurnia, 2018; Koutchade, 2017; Rashid, 2016). Most researchers in fiction text only examined short story, and the data results that obtained are all the clause of the full story. However, this research only focuses on the beginning chapter in fiction text.


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