Regarding the issue of independent documentary, the key question to be considered is whether the message conveyed to target groups or intended audiences is fully achieved. The usage of soundtracks to convey the message of an independent documentary is seen as an added value for audiences to digest the...

This article aims at describing the development of translation theories, presenting the assessment in translation studies and describing the current paradigm of the research on translation. This article is written based on the qualitative approach. The data are taken from documents and informants. The...

This paper is concerned with putting into practice Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as a tool of discourse analysis in translation with a particular reference to translating English texts into Indonesian. The texts selected to be analyzed belong to exposition and report genres. From the translation...

This paper addresses some issues around academic culture within the context of an Indonesian higher education. It makes a case of the revision of a house-made writing style guide implicated by the new governmental policy which has to do with academic text writing practice, including that of undergraduate...

Natural disasters are frequently inevitable. They destroy many social structures, infrastructure, environment and lives. Moreover, disasters evoke mixed feelings of sadness, anxiety, anger, loss, fear, even trauma. These emotions may impede community capacities to recover from disaster adversity. After...

Expressive skill is a verbal language skill to interact with other people. The ability of children with autism to express ideas in their mind can indicate that their receptive, as well as productive ability, works effectively. The purpose of this research is to describe the forms of language units that...

Abstracts in Proceedings have the purpose of knowing the entire contents that will have been studied. Therefore, it is very important for readers to read Abstracts, before reading the entire contents of the proceedings. The abstract should be able to conclude and contain the essence of what will / has...

This study examined the landscape of the Medang Kamulan site in Banjarejo Village, District of Gabus, Grobogan-Central Java, which is often mentioned as the center of ancient Mataram kingdom. This opinion is based on the toponym of Medang (Kamulan) which is identical to the signifier of the Ancient Mataram...

Tourism is one of the ways for the government to promote the country’s culture as well as nature. The language found in the official website of Indonesian tourism is powerful to persuade people to visit the country’s tourism destinations, one of which is Raja Ampat. The existence of its nature is an...

This research was intended to analyze the sociolinguistic phenomenon in Ampenan communities. This research focused on what types of swearwords Ampenan communities used to use, in what context they do swearing and the implication in their social relationship within the communities. This study uses a qualitative...

One of the systems within a language is system of ideation. It deals with how human experience is construed in discourse (Martin & Rose, 2007: p. 73). Included in the system are nuclear relations, materializing at the rank of clause and below clause. Through nuclear relations, experiential meaning in...

This paper discusses the variation of Indonesian first person singular pronouns which is related to the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence. The question to be addressed in this study is: to what extent the pronouns are used by Indonesian-speaking children? This study aims to describe the use of...

This article intends to respond to the views of Dutch Scholars Adriani and Kruyt (1914) on the two phonological characteristics of South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWG). Methodologically the interview method was used to collect 200 basic vocabulary and 500 cultural vocabulary in six South Halmahera...

The role of media in reporting something could decide how people may act regarding the news. The Presidential election of Indonesia may be considered as one national event that draws huge attention of the people of Indonesia or even other countries. The election has been done on April 17th, 2019 and...

Repetition as one of lexical aspect is a repetition of lingual units such as sounds, syllables, words, or part of words that are considered important to give pressure in an appropriate context. Speech therapy process was used by autism therapist to give some treatment to the autism child so they can...

In communicating, personality is divided into two major types: introvert and extrovert. Each type of personality has its own learning attitude. Speaking class requires each student to participate actively in class activities so that each student dares to speak. However, because the learners' personality...

Reduplication is part of a morphological process carried out by repetition of basic or affixed words, both in the form of full repetition and partial repetition. Reduplication is found in spoken language, namely the language spoken. This research is an experimental development in which researchers try...

This paper discusses non-verbal strategies performed by teachers to stimulate children with autism spectrum disorders in producing verbal expressions. Four learning processes were selected for the study. All classes consist of verbal children with autism, and each class was executed by different teacher....

Creative activities deal with renewal effort in particular fields. Creativity usually contains arts value in product result. Kinds of creativity are various such as in language use. Dealing with creativity in language use, this research is conducted. This research reveals how far the language study has...

Language is a verbal product produced by humans to communicate with each other as a form of social interaction. Language helps humans to think regularly, patterned and systematically. Humans can express their meanings and feelings through language verbally and in written form. Javanese language has varied...

The purpose of this study was to describe the language variations in friday prayer sermons based on social stratification of pilgrims in mosques in the East Java Province, Indonesia. This study used a qualitative descriptive method with the setting as it is (natural setting) which basically described...

This paper investigates the use of Javanese as a tool of expression for solidarity politeness in the ethnic Chinese community in the Javanese Arek cultural area. The objective is to understand what kind of Javanese language tends to be used as a tool for expressing solidarity politeness and the contexts...

The title of this research is ‘Compound on the Name of Plant in Rote Language of the Dengka Dialect’. The research problems that are analyzed are how the process of compound takes place and the structure of compound word on the name of plant in Rote language of the Dengka dialect. The analysis of compound...

Batik art in each region has its own characteristics that represent the culture of the community. Lasem Batik is one of the kind of coastal batik, which has a great influence on Chinese culture, thus making Lasem batik has its own distinctive characteristics compared to other areas. In the world of Lasem...

In Indonesian grammar, yang used only with question words siapa ‘who’ and apa ‘what’, in specific position, like in Siapa yang menulis surat? ‘Who wrote the letter?’, and Surat apa yang ditulis oleh Ali? ‘What kinds of letter did Ali wrote?’. Yang did not used in the sentences Kamu mencari siapa (*yang)?...

This paper is intended to describe various types of phonological changes which constitute one of important causes for the Javanese speakers failing to identify the meaning of several place names which exist in their surroundings despite the rare use of Old Javanese, Sanskrit, and other foreign borrowings....

The Indonesian literary community in East Java has experienced very rapid development. Especially in recent developments, the literary community continues to grow and increase in the East Java region--and at the same time develops literary publishing institutions. In this community, interactions between...

“Penganjeng Aik” is tradition of Sasak in East Lombok to treatment a disease. “Penganjeng Aik” is one way of community in Sasak, especially in East Lombok to treat a disease. The study focuses on simbolysm Penganjeng Aik Tradition which still exists today. There is a value of religion and the social...

This article aims to describe the deficit of deixis of the children with speech delay. The approach used in this article is qualitative with descriptive method. The data of this article are words that can give a description of deixic deficits. Data collection techniques used in this article are (a) observations,...

Swear words relates to types of words used by someone to express their anger. Those words were analyzed in this study using qualitative method. It was used to collect, analyze, and present the result of the study. In addition, the data of this study were collected using interview method with in depth...

Having purpose to explain about varied diction in Sasak language that emerge towards different social status in Sasak community, by using purposive sampling technique, several people who have diverge social status in community and applied sasak language were concerned as the sample. This study was gathered...

This paper aims to explore the reason why taboo language use is frequent during the comical interlude in Javanese shadow puppet performances. The data were taken from a recorded shadow puppet performance in East Java. During the recording, there is much taboo language use by the comedians and the puppeteer....

According to Martin Rose (2007), logical metaphor can be realized as a conjunction to relate activities and organize texts. However, when doing the translation, the translator probably may ignore this particular element. This study was designed to analyze and compare logical metaphor in the novel Pride...

Pasung Jiwa (2013) and Entrok (2010) written by Okky Madasari has symbolic element. The focus and purpose of the study is to understand the interpretive symbolic by Clifford Geertz in Pasung Jiwa and Entrok novel by Okky Madasari through plans, recipes, rules, and instructions. This study uses descriptive-qualitative...

This study discusses the preservation of Ajhemo Tradition among the people of Branta Pesisir, Pamekasan, Madura. Ajhemo, another term for drinking herbal medicine, is a traditional medical practice that has been existing for generations. This prevailing habit cannot be separated from the socialization...

This study discusses the speech act of refusing as made by Lombok Grab drivers when interacting with customers. The field observation and library research was used as the design of this study. The interview was used as an instrument by interviewing 10 participants of Grab driver in Lombok and 10 participants...

Idiomatic Expressions can enrich the speech and make the speech becomes more interesting. The ability to apply the idiomatic expressions shows that the person has an advance level of the language comprehension and fluency. This happens since the structures and the meanings of the idiomatic expressions...

Greetings is one of the most important part in starting a communication. When meeting someone, we tend to do an interactive activity such as saying or doing something as an act to establish a good social relationship. If not, communication activities are difficult to begin or cannot be carried out smoothly....

The First Language (L1) interference is one of the influential factors that may cause acquisition problems of Second Language (L2) learners. This study was conducted considering L1 may influence L2 spelling acquisition. It was aimed to investigate the influence of Brebes Javanese phonological and orthographic...

In producing speech of other than mother tongue, the term bilinguals might fit the condition where an EFL learner is trying to use two different languages alternately. It is has come into common recognition that Madurese people are typically identified for their accent when they speak other than their...

In the University, character education is a concept of education that should be integrated in all subject, including English. English teaching is a complicated task which requires sufficient resources and skillful teaching; which in turn, necessitates considering all cognitive, affective, and social...

This study aims to (1) identify and inventory the lexicon and (2) describe the ethnobotany classification and nomenclature system. The identification and inventory of lexicons are intended to determine the shape and number of lexicons of tubers in the Sasak language. The description of the ethnobotany...

Yogyakarta Special Territory is a region using Javanese for the daily communication. Javanese also becomes a part of the formation of cultural context, in which the language to convey the customs is perfomed well. The purpose of this research is to describe the procedures of visiting Yogyakarta Palace...

Participle (причастие /pričastie/) in the Russian language is a particular form of verb, which is the most intricate grammar of the Russian language. This article explores the participle construction in passive sentences found in a commerce article in expert.ru. magazine. It is an electronic magazine...

Advertising is so familiar in the modern era that people can see it almost everywhere. Advertising is not only about commercial promotion of products, but also comprises the idea of texts with particular intention to elevate the image of an individual, group or organization. The medium of advertisement...

A tablet from the 6th century BC succeeded in revealing the giant six-level Ziggurat which became known as the Tower of Babel. According to the biblical text narrative in Genesis 11: 1-9, the construction of the Ziggurat was successful because the perpetrators were in one Babylonian language. If this...

The similarity of Bawean people's utterances to the Madurese lays on a reason that the Bawean people are often equally associated with Madurese. However, the Bawean people dislike being equally perceived as Madurese. The tradition of wandering, ethnic diversity and migrants on Bawean Island have been...

Language has been found to handle communication easily around the world. The main function of communication is as a means of communication mentioned above and also to express thoughts, feelings, ideas or opinions about anything happened in the society. Concerning with that, humor can be as a medium to...

The presence or absence of a language in public space represents the strength or weakness of social group along with their ideology. School is the basis on which ideology is constructed through education. The use of language in school nameplate plays a role in the construction of ideology which leaves...

This preliminary study is intended to find out the types of directive speech acts produced by the kindergarten teachers for parenting towards the students, to know the sentence types used by the teachers in the directives and to reveal the lingual and nonlingual markers are indicating the parenting for...

Diversity of language skills in Bahasa Indonesia learning is an important part. The more diverse language skills mastered by the students, the more complete the language skills the students have. This research aims to describe the language skills contained in the Bahasa Indonesia Textbook for Class X...

This study aims to explore the local wisdom in Javanese language and culture related to verbal expression and expression of nonverbal coastal communities in the village of Banjar Kemuning Regency. Sedati district of Sidoarjo. This was designed with the ethnographic method as the analytical model, namely...

A Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) is an approach used in this study to analyze China’s political speech on “One Belt One Road (OBOR)”. The speech texts on OBOR as a case study is analyzed through a written interview with the Chinese scholars and mainly is aimed to analyze the translators’ works as...

Currently, Indonesia is managing more than 4,397 higher education institutions (HEIs), eleven of which are pushed to meet the international standards. One of the standards is the presence of international students and international faculty staffs. These two indicators are also used by the ministry to...

This article discusses types of figures of speech used by teenage writers in their story texts. Eighteen writers as students of Junior High Schools were selected to get a training of how to effectively exploit Indonesian language to compose a story text. Data in the forms of figures of speech were collected,...

In Batak Toba culture, women are not permitted to speak in any cultural ceremonies, except in traditional marriage ceremonies, namely manuppaki (giving donations) and mangulosi (giving ulos-a traditional Batak Toba cloth) where they are equal to man in term of giving advices. This research aims to find...

This research is motivated by the point of view where the research using scriptures as the object of the study has an important role, especially in Linguistics. Utterances written in the scriptures are able to lead their followers to have their lifestyle based on the scriptures. Therefore, it can be...

Intensity is the highest distance between the neutral lines and the curve of a wave. This magnitude is often called amplitude. A sound or speech that has a high intensity or large-amplitude, then the sound or speech utterance will be increasingly loud (Rogers, 2013). In certain societies, especially...

Complaint speech act is part of expressive speech acts. However, these potentially threaten the face of the hearer. The speaker will use boosters expression in complaining strategy to express their emotion. Boosters expression as a linguistic marker is not only appeared in real life communication but...

Departing from Leech’s definition of criticism as an expression of Speaker’s psychological act toward Hearer’s inappropriate conduct (Leech, 1983) in a communication as a risk to face (Scollon R and Suzanne Wong Scollon, 2001) … strategy of criticism as pragmatic competence could be realized (Nguyen,...

A bargaining usually happened in a market, but in this research it happened in marhata sinamot. It was one of the step from Bataknese wedding ceremony that discussed about dowry as one from other topic in marhata sinamot. The imposition is higher when the object to bargain was women with different educational...

This article describes the structure of discourse that is formed from speech events in the discourse of dialogic da’wah (preaching). Data is obtained by nonparticipatory observation methods and record methods. Data analysis is based on the Birmingham School of Discourse Analysis theory. The findings...

Literary works are not created in cultural emptiness, but they are created because they are needed by humans. Literature has a dual function to entertain and benefit humans. Literature entertains by presenting beauty and imagination, besides that literature also has social functions as means to convey...

This study is a cyberpragmatic study since it analyzes a pragmatic aspect in the cyberworld, that is social media. Social media has penetrated all people in the world, and Balinese community is no exception. This study aims at describing the strategy Balinese women utilize in responding compliment on...

This paper is attempted at investigating whether or not speech level is still used and maintained in the communication among members of the noble Sasak family, what the linguistic features of the refined language are maintained, and what factors affecting the maintenance of the refined language. the...

The study of meaning in context is the core of pragmatics. In fact, the context of the language of any literary work may be felt in the text but not all the time, since understanding literary works may be dependent on cultural contexts that are not found in the text. Hence the paralinguistic and extra...

This paper discusses about the strategy of politeness for FTA (face-threatening act) receiver in facing and responding ‘face-threatening act’ addressed to them. This article is resumed from research result to speech act of KBJ VI participants. It is known that the speech act of KBJ VI participants were...

Translation is the process of transferring messages of the source language text into the target language text. The transfer of messages in the translation process is always characterized by differences in the culture of the source language and the target language. Language is part of culture, and culture...

Ganesa Library (GL) is a Non-Government Organization in Central Java that serves local people more than 3,000 books collection, 70% written in Bahasa Indonesia and 30% in English (http://ganesastudycenter.org/). The latter, which consists of various types of books such as novels, comics, children’s story...

This research will elaborate the sentences in the book of Iḥyā’ Ulūmid-dīn (IU) written by Imam Al-Ghazali. The first problem will investigate the character of sentences in the IU based on the Arabic and Javanese Syntax elements. The second problem will elaborate the communicative dynamism in the IU...

This paper is aimed at investigating the use of figurative language in folktales translated by native and non native folktale writers and how these figurative language supports the coherence of the stories. Figurative language is used with the purpose to serve three elements of clarity, forth and beauty...

This study aims to look closely transitivity of simile in Laskar Pelangi. It applies SFL theory from Halliday. The data are taken from novel Laskar Pelangi by Andrea Hirata. Research method is descriptive qualitative. The data analyses were configured into three phases as suggested by Spradley (2016)...

This research is a translation study trying to explore how assertive speech acts could be used for revealing impoliteness. In many situation impoliteness as a strategy of speech act aims at disharmony interactions. The disharmony was indicated by their utterances used in interaction. The goals could...