Politeness might lessen imposition in argumentative conversations which potentially result in con... more Politeness might lessen imposition in argumentative conversations which potentially result in conflict. However, different conventions on politeness among different cultures may cause problems for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners who often transfer their native communication preferences to their target language usage. This article explores the (im)politeness employed by multilingual EFL learners in casual agreeing-disagreeing exchanges among peers. Using explanatory sequential mixed method design, students’ utterances in role plays were analyzed based on Leech’s (2014) politeness theory, Kakava’s (1993) disagreement strategies, as well as Locher’s (2004) mitigating strategies on disagreement. It is found that in conversations with people of equal status and power, the observance of politeness maxims is more apparent than the violation. It indicates that maintaining others’ faces is essential irrespective of age differences, even in arguing conversations. The more frequen...
In pronunciation classes, most teachers over-emphasize the accuracy part and ignore the fluency a... more In pronunciation classes, most teachers over-emphasize the accuracy part and ignore the fluency aspects (Elliot, 1995; Yoshida, 2016). To enhance both accuracy and fluency for Chinese students’ pronunciation in Bahasa Indonesia (BI), this study investigates the effects of combining instruction and immersion. This was classroom action research conducted for one semester at Qujing Normal University (QJNU), Yunnan Sheng, China. Audiolingual Method (ALM) with drilling technique was the instruction procedure while the outdoor project was the technique in the immersion. The research subjects were nine first-semester students in the Indonesian Language Department of QJNU. Their score improvements from the pre- to post-assessments indicate that combining these two methods is effective in enhancing students’ pronunciation in BI. The instruction conducted through explicit phonetic teaching and drilling is appropriate for habituating them with accurate pronunciation. Meanwhile, the fun and enj...
This discourse study aims to analyze the structure and function of the modes in the speech of the... more This discourse study aims to analyze the structure and function of the modes in the speech of the characters in The Grass is Singing concerning white domination over black people. This is a qualitative study with a critical discourse analysis approach. The findings conform Fairclough’s theory (1989) that the mood structure, whether declarative, interrogative, or imperative, can show the speaker's dominance and power. In the declarative mode, the speaker or the person giving the information tends to be in a higher position than the interlocutor. In the interrogative and imperative modes, the person who asks for both information and action from the interlocutor is generally more dominant. These findings reveal that white people consider their group to be superior to black people even though within the white group itself a social class division exists where those who are more successful will be more powerful than people who are struggling economically.
Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics
The power imbalance between men and women in society is reflected in their language use and it ma... more The power imbalance between men and women in society is reflected in their language use and it may be reinforced in sexist jokes. This is a sociolinguistic study on men’s language in sexist jokes on the Internet. This study is aimed at investigating men’s linguistic features and the masculine identities represented by those features. This is a descriptive qualitative study with complementary quantitative analysis. The theories of Tannen’s men language (1990) and Kiesling’s masculine identities (2007) were used as references to analyze the data. The results show that men’s identity of competing for solidarity embodied in discourses of insults, teasing, and joking is the most dominant identity represented in sexist jokes. This is in line with the main intention of sexist humor to laugh at women’s inferiority. Meanwhile, men’s dominance realized in report talk becomes the second most prevalent identity. The identities of politeness oaf, indicated by direct command, and freedom, shown b...
This research investigated meaning and its realizations in bilingual translational texts. The foc... more This research investigated meaning and its realizations in bilingual translational texts. The focus is on thematic variations. This study was aimed at describing the thematic variations, in terms of textual meaning breadth and thematic progression, of The Great Gatsby texts, describing the contextual factors that motivate the thematic variations in question, and describing the effects of the variations in question on the texts as translational texts. The study was essentially qualitative with complementary quantitative data. The quantitative analysis was used to measure the overall degrees of variation represented by the mean of the variations and to measure the occurrence of the textual meaning breadth and thematic progression variations based on their frequencies and the extents of occurrence. The qualitative analysis was used to explain the quantitative analysis results and to discuss the contextual factors that motivate the thematic variations in question and their effects on th...
(Title : Film “The Act of Killing” as an Aesthetic Discourse ). This study aims to elaborate how ... more (Title : Film “The Act of Killing” as an Aesthetic Discourse ). This study aims to elaborate how The Act of Killing comes as a aesthetic discourse. This was a descriptive qualitative study with content analysis method. The data were text (both audio and visual) in the film as well as the audience’s review about the film and the people included. The result shows that the film is an imaginative documentary. The film tries to reveal what has been hidden, the oppressed people in terms of humanitarianism, expressively and persuasively. The humanitarian side visualized was compared to the one in audience life so that they can understand complex problem on ideology. It is ‘ideology for human’ or ‘sacrificing human beings in the name of ideology (any)’. The aesthetic values in the film were emotion, beauty and understanding. The killing and torturing scenes have touched the audience’s emotion. The director’s cinematic skills to present horrible experience is the beauty making the audience close to the past. The statements related to ‘new insight’ indicate that the film is like an understanding of a past event. Keywords: The Act of Killing, discourse, aesthetic
(Title: Identification of Errors on English Engineering Translation Results to Java Language: Sem... more (Title: Identification of Errors on English Engineering Translation Results to Java Language: Semantic Study). This study uses linguistic principles to study the results of English to Javanese translations using an online translation engine. In particular, this study aims to identify translation errors and study them from a semantic perspective. Data is obtained by entering ten thousand samples of English sentences into the Google Translator translation engine which are then analyzed qualitatively. Analysis is focused on the level of words and phrases. The results of the study show four main problems in the semantic domain, namely the absence of lexicons, the inaccuracy of lexicons, word ambiguity, and idiom phrases. Suggestions were given to improve the quality of Javanese language SMT from a linguistic perspective, related to quantity, coverage, and quality of corporate data. Keywords: semantics, machine translator, Javanese, English, linguistics
This study aimed to identify the turn-holding cues in Downton Abbey television series and describ... more This study aimed to identify the turn-holding cues in Downton Abbey television series and describe the factors contributing to the effective use of them. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were multi-participant conversations in the television series, specifically the first three episodes of the first season. The procedures for conducting the study were collecting the data, completing them with their context, setting, and then analyzing them. The result shows that to hold a turn, speakers use cues such as filled pause, verbal filler, tactically placed silent pause, new start, grammatical incompleteness, and rush-through. The speakers’ attempt to hold the turn are successfully accomplished as they can continue finishing their utterances without any interruption from other participants. The factors contributing to the effective use of turn-holding cues are putting the cues at strategic places, and most importantly, cooperation among participants.
The data-based research on which this article is based aimed at (1) describing the thematic progr... more The data-based research on which this article is based aimed at (1) describing the thematic progression variation of The Great Gatsby texts, (2) describing the contextual factors that motivate the variation in question, and (3) describing the effects of the variation on the texts as translational texts. The study applied a qualitative approach which employed a sematic-translational content analysis of qualitative and quantiative data. The results show that thematic progression variation falls into the low category at average indicated by the mean score of 0.76. The most prominent variation was repre-sented by the low category of variation. The variations were performed by adding or omitting Themes, splitting one units of thematic structure into more than one unit, downranking, not expressing and creating new clauses. The factors that motivate the variation are the different linguistic properties bet-ween English and Bahasa Indonesia and the situational contexts. In terms of effects,...
As a multilingual country, the Indonesian government has set the positions of local language, nat... more As a multilingual country, the Indonesian government has set the positions of local language, national language, and foreign language in education through Law of National Education System No.20 of 2003, Chapter VII, Article 33. Fifteen years passed and this paper seeks to find the results of the law in higher education students by investigating the patterns of language use of multilingual students in English Literature Study Program of FBS UNY. This is a descriptive study with parallel mixed method design. The data in this study were responses upon questions in the questionnaires distributed to respondents where the results were then analyzed quantitatively by using SPSS (17) and the results of interviews were analyzed qualitatively. The source of data in this study were 162 respondents who were students of English Literature study program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta year 2015-2017. The results show that at home, more than 60% of students use Javane...
Politeness might lessen imposition in argumentative conversations which potentially result in con... more Politeness might lessen imposition in argumentative conversations which potentially result in conflict. However, different conventions on politeness among different cultures may cause problems for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners who often transfer their native communication preferences to their target language usage. This article explores the (im)politeness employed by multilingual EFL learners in casual agreeing-disagreeing exchanges among peers. Using explanatory sequential mixed method design, students’ utterances in role plays were analyzed based on Leech’s (2014) politeness theory, Kakava’s (1993) disagreement strategies, as well as Locher’s (2004) mitigating strategies on disagreement. It is found that in conversations with people of equal status and power, the observance of politeness maxims is more apparent than the violation. It indicates that maintaining others’ faces is essential irrespective of age differences, even in arguing conversations. The more frequen...
In pronunciation classes, most teachers over-emphasize the accuracy part and ignore the fluency a... more In pronunciation classes, most teachers over-emphasize the accuracy part and ignore the fluency aspects (Elliot, 1995; Yoshida, 2016). To enhance both accuracy and fluency for Chinese students’ pronunciation in Bahasa Indonesia (BI), this study investigates the effects of combining instruction and immersion. This was classroom action research conducted for one semester at Qujing Normal University (QJNU), Yunnan Sheng, China. Audiolingual Method (ALM) with drilling technique was the instruction procedure while the outdoor project was the technique in the immersion. The research subjects were nine first-semester students in the Indonesian Language Department of QJNU. Their score improvements from the pre- to post-assessments indicate that combining these two methods is effective in enhancing students’ pronunciation in BI. The instruction conducted through explicit phonetic teaching and drilling is appropriate for habituating them with accurate pronunciation. Meanwhile, the fun and enj...
This discourse study aims to analyze the structure and function of the modes in the speech of the... more This discourse study aims to analyze the structure and function of the modes in the speech of the characters in The Grass is Singing concerning white domination over black people. This is a qualitative study with a critical discourse analysis approach. The findings conform Fairclough’s theory (1989) that the mood structure, whether declarative, interrogative, or imperative, can show the speaker's dominance and power. In the declarative mode, the speaker or the person giving the information tends to be in a higher position than the interlocutor. In the interrogative and imperative modes, the person who asks for both information and action from the interlocutor is generally more dominant. These findings reveal that white people consider their group to be superior to black people even though within the white group itself a social class division exists where those who are more successful will be more powerful than people who are struggling economically.
Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics
The power imbalance between men and women in society is reflected in their language use and it ma... more The power imbalance between men and women in society is reflected in their language use and it may be reinforced in sexist jokes. This is a sociolinguistic study on men’s language in sexist jokes on the Internet. This study is aimed at investigating men’s linguistic features and the masculine identities represented by those features. This is a descriptive qualitative study with complementary quantitative analysis. The theories of Tannen’s men language (1990) and Kiesling’s masculine identities (2007) were used as references to analyze the data. The results show that men’s identity of competing for solidarity embodied in discourses of insults, teasing, and joking is the most dominant identity represented in sexist jokes. This is in line with the main intention of sexist humor to laugh at women’s inferiority. Meanwhile, men’s dominance realized in report talk becomes the second most prevalent identity. The identities of politeness oaf, indicated by direct command, and freedom, shown b...
This research investigated meaning and its realizations in bilingual translational texts. The foc... more This research investigated meaning and its realizations in bilingual translational texts. The focus is on thematic variations. This study was aimed at describing the thematic variations, in terms of textual meaning breadth and thematic progression, of The Great Gatsby texts, describing the contextual factors that motivate the thematic variations in question, and describing the effects of the variations in question on the texts as translational texts. The study was essentially qualitative with complementary quantitative data. The quantitative analysis was used to measure the overall degrees of variation represented by the mean of the variations and to measure the occurrence of the textual meaning breadth and thematic progression variations based on their frequencies and the extents of occurrence. The qualitative analysis was used to explain the quantitative analysis results and to discuss the contextual factors that motivate the thematic variations in question and their effects on th...
(Title : Film “The Act of Killing” as an Aesthetic Discourse ). This study aims to elaborate how ... more (Title : Film “The Act of Killing” as an Aesthetic Discourse ). This study aims to elaborate how The Act of Killing comes as a aesthetic discourse. This was a descriptive qualitative study with content analysis method. The data were text (both audio and visual) in the film as well as the audience’s review about the film and the people included. The result shows that the film is an imaginative documentary. The film tries to reveal what has been hidden, the oppressed people in terms of humanitarianism, expressively and persuasively. The humanitarian side visualized was compared to the one in audience life so that they can understand complex problem on ideology. It is ‘ideology for human’ or ‘sacrificing human beings in the name of ideology (any)’. The aesthetic values in the film were emotion, beauty and understanding. The killing and torturing scenes have touched the audience’s emotion. The director’s cinematic skills to present horrible experience is the beauty making the audience close to the past. The statements related to ‘new insight’ indicate that the film is like an understanding of a past event. Keywords: The Act of Killing, discourse, aesthetic
(Title: Identification of Errors on English Engineering Translation Results to Java Language: Sem... more (Title: Identification of Errors on English Engineering Translation Results to Java Language: Semantic Study). This study uses linguistic principles to study the results of English to Javanese translations using an online translation engine. In particular, this study aims to identify translation errors and study them from a semantic perspective. Data is obtained by entering ten thousand samples of English sentences into the Google Translator translation engine which are then analyzed qualitatively. Analysis is focused on the level of words and phrases. The results of the study show four main problems in the semantic domain, namely the absence of lexicons, the inaccuracy of lexicons, word ambiguity, and idiom phrases. Suggestions were given to improve the quality of Javanese language SMT from a linguistic perspective, related to quantity, coverage, and quality of corporate data. Keywords: semantics, machine translator, Javanese, English, linguistics
This study aimed to identify the turn-holding cues in Downton Abbey television series and describ... more This study aimed to identify the turn-holding cues in Downton Abbey television series and describe the factors contributing to the effective use of them. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were multi-participant conversations in the television series, specifically the first three episodes of the first season. The procedures for conducting the study were collecting the data, completing them with their context, setting, and then analyzing them. The result shows that to hold a turn, speakers use cues such as filled pause, verbal filler, tactically placed silent pause, new start, grammatical incompleteness, and rush-through. The speakers’ attempt to hold the turn are successfully accomplished as they can continue finishing their utterances without any interruption from other participants. The factors contributing to the effective use of turn-holding cues are putting the cues at strategic places, and most importantly, cooperation among participants.
The data-based research on which this article is based aimed at (1) describing the thematic progr... more The data-based research on which this article is based aimed at (1) describing the thematic progression variation of The Great Gatsby texts, (2) describing the contextual factors that motivate the variation in question, and (3) describing the effects of the variation on the texts as translational texts. The study applied a qualitative approach which employed a sematic-translational content analysis of qualitative and quantiative data. The results show that thematic progression variation falls into the low category at average indicated by the mean score of 0.76. The most prominent variation was repre-sented by the low category of variation. The variations were performed by adding or omitting Themes, splitting one units of thematic structure into more than one unit, downranking, not expressing and creating new clauses. The factors that motivate the variation are the different linguistic properties bet-ween English and Bahasa Indonesia and the situational contexts. In terms of effects,...
As a multilingual country, the Indonesian government has set the positions of local language, nat... more As a multilingual country, the Indonesian government has set the positions of local language, national language, and foreign language in education through Law of National Education System No.20 of 2003, Chapter VII, Article 33. Fifteen years passed and this paper seeks to find the results of the law in higher education students by investigating the patterns of language use of multilingual students in English Literature Study Program of FBS UNY. This is a descriptive study with parallel mixed method design. The data in this study were responses upon questions in the questionnaires distributed to respondents where the results were then analyzed quantitatively by using SPSS (17) and the results of interviews were analyzed qualitatively. The source of data in this study were 162 respondents who were students of English Literature study program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta year 2015-2017. The results show that at home, more than 60% of students use Javane...
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