This research focused on the politeness of the preachers (henceforth, Khatibs) in delivering serm... more This research focused on the politeness of the preachers (henceforth, Khatibs) in delivering sermons. The objective was to find out how politeness principles were applied in the Acehnese language sermons delivered by the Khatibs in Friday prayer processions in Aceh Besar, Indonesia. The data for this research was 15 Friday sermons given at seven sub-districts in Aceh Besar. This study used naturally occurring data from the Friday sermons collected over two months by recording them at 15 mosques within the area of Aceh Besar. Data were transcribed and analyzed using Grice’s maxim theory. The results showed that out of the six politeness maxims, only two maxims, the sympathy maxim, and the tact maxim were found and identified to be applied in the Friday prayer sermons. The sympathy maxim was dominantly used by the Khatibs with 52 occurrences or 68.4% of data, while the tact maxim was found to be used in 24 occurrences or 31.6% of data. Meanwhile, the approbation maxim, the agreement m...
Acehnese has been depicted for their heroism and craziness in great deal of literature as a resul... more Acehnese has been depicted for their heroism and craziness in great deal of literature as a result of their firm stand and continuous fight during the war against the Dutch colonial power at the turn of the 19 th to the 20 th century (Siegel, 1979; Hurgronje, 1906). As in a number of his other works of fiction, in his first novel of the Buru Quartet, This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer also makes many references to Aceh and the Acehnese (Toer, 1982). This paper aims to explore the aspects of heroism of Acehnese fighters and another side of human tragedies in the context of Aceh war as represented by Toer in this novel. The two themes are extracted and highlighted as the results of the analysis of Toer’s narrative through the flashback made by one of his characters much of whose life has been dictated by his past engagement against Acehnese fighters in a number of battles in Aceh. While the heroism is amplified as being part of the characteristics of the Acehnese fighters, t...
This research is analyzing of illocutionary acts performed by the main character Azzam in the nov... more This research is analyzing of illocutionary acts performed by the main character Azzam in the novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih . It is an Islamic novel. This research applied Searle’s theory and his 5 classifications, which are assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declaratives. This research used a qualitative method. Based on the findings of this research all of the types of illocutionary acts were found in this novel. The most common type found in this novel is directives. The reason is that Azzam, the main character, is described as someone who is hardworking, honest, and firm. These characteristics earn him respect from people around him and this gives him more opportunity to speak in a directive way. Therefore, ini this novel Azzam used a lot of directive type. The findings also showed that the types of illocutionary acts used by the main character in this novel are different from those used by the main character in fiction novels in earlies studies.
In using the language, people have a variety of style, one of them is code mixing. Indonesian-Eng... more In using the language, people have a variety of style, one of them is code mixing. Indonesian-English code mixing often uses by teenagers because of influence of popular movie like Cek Toko Sebelah that contain code mixing. The teenagers who watched this movie may be exposed to every aspect presented in the movie, including language use along with code-mixing phenomenon in it. Thus, it is significant to investigate the use of code mixing in this movie. The aim of this study is to find out the types of code mixing that are used in Cek Toko Sebelah movie and also to figure out the type of code mixing that is most frequently used in Cek Toko Sebelah movie. This study used qualitative method. In collecting the data, the writer used observation sheet and classified the data into 3 types of code mixing based on Muysken’s (2000) theory. The result of this study showed that 32 data or (63%) are categorized as insertion, 19 data or (37%) are categorized as alternation and no data of congruen...
The 2004 Tsunami changed the composition of Leupueng population in Aceh, to be more heterogeneous... more The 2004 Tsunami changed the composition of Leupueng population in Aceh, to be more heterogeneous. This study looks at the impact of this change on the use of Leupueng dialect features and found the reduced use of Leupueng dialect features among the children.
This research dealt with collocations used in the North Aceh dialect. It analyzed the part of spe... more This research dealt with collocations used in the North Aceh dialect. It analyzed the part of speech categories into which collocations of the North Aceh dialect can be grouped. This research focused on the grammatical collocations and lexical collocations used in the Blang Mee village of Bireuen District, Aceh, Indonesia. This is a descriptive qualitative using case study looking into the villagers’ use of Acehnese collocations. Six Acehnese speakers were selected as the language informants. They were fifty years old or above and never traveled or lived outside of Blang Mee. Data were extracted from interviews with these speakers who were asked to discuss general topics in Acehnese. The analysis was performed using a framework on collocation categories by Benson et al. The results of the analysis showed both lexical and grammatical collocations used by speakers in North Aceh. Lexical collocations were found in the forms of verb (denoting creation or activation) + noun combinations,...
Purpose of the study: This study was aimed at finding out the potentially disappearing adjectives... more Purpose of the study: This study was aimed at finding out the potentially disappearing adjectives in Acehnese and the reasons that may contribute to the disappearance by looking at the backgrounds of participants and their language use. Methodology: This is a sociolinguistic study employing questionnaires, wordlist interviews, and focus group interviews (FGI) as methods of data collection. Fifty Acehnese adjectives extracted from the Swadesh list were tested to 10 younger speakers (age 13-14), who were selected out of 113 respondents who returned the questionnaires. The selection criteria are considered to include age, origin, and parents’ origin. The respondents were all students of years 7 and 8 of a junior high school in a suburban area of Banda Aceh, considered the hot spot for the contact between Indonesian language speakers and Acehnese language speakers. Responses of the 10 participants interviewed were qualitatively analyzed to get the insights and circumstances of the use o...
It is surprising to find that there have been many shops in Banda Aceh that use English on their ... more It is surprising to find that there have been many shops in Banda Aceh that use English on their signs. This study was conducted to investigate the shop owners’ reasons for using English on their shop signs. To obtain the data from the shop owners, observation sheet and interview guide were used as the research instruments. The data were analyzed by using the model proposed by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014). It was found that the 10 shop owners gave four reasons they used English in their shop signs, which can be classified into the themes. They are 1) to be easily remembered; 2) to follow the trend; 3) to use their own name; and 4) to be unique. In conclusion, among four terms of reasons of shop owners in using English in their shop signs, the theme of “becoming unique” or distinctive is the most given reason by the shop owners.
YouTube is one of the biggest platforms where people around the world can share informative video... more YouTube is one of the biggest platforms where people around the world can share informative videos. In YouTube, we can find the code-switching and code-mixing phenomenon easily. There are two dominant types of code-switching and code-mixing. The first type is code-switching and code-mixing used by Group 1: Indonesian YouTubers who live abroad, while the second type is code-switching and code-mixing used by Group 2: Indonesian YouTubers who live in the country. This study aimed to find out which group switched and mixed language the most. The transcripts of the chosen YouTube video were the collected data. The qualitative method was used in this study, and the data were analyzed using document analysis based on the framework of Myers-Scotton (1993) and Muysken (2000). The result showed that Group 1 used code-switching and code-mixing the most, with a total of 288 pieces of data. Group 2 used code-switching and code-mixing with a total of 262 pieces of data. The most dominant type of...
This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of the mime media to enhance students’ wri... more This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of the mime media to enhance students’ writing skills on recount text at the tenth-grade students of Islamic Senior High School Langsa. This study is quantitative research which used some numerical data that were analyzed statistically. The subjects of this study were 42 students who were taken from X MIA 3 as an experimental group and X MIA 4 as a control group. The instruments used to collect the data were pretest, posttest, and questionnaire. The result of the pretest score in the experimental class was 63.61, and the result of the posttest score in the experimental class was 77. The result of the pretest score in the control class was 63.80, and the result of the posttest score in the control class was 74.47. The test of the hypothesis using the t-test formula showed that the t-count was higher than the t-table. The score of the t-value was 1.72, while t-table on = 5% with df 40 was 1.68, which means the hypothesis was accep...
The purposes of this study were to analyze the use of Acehnese-Chamic derived lexical items used ... more The purposes of this study were to analyze the use of Acehnese-Chamic derived lexical items used by young speakers. Besides, it also intended to find out whether there is a language change among younger speakers of Acehnese. The data were gathered at the English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UIN Ar-Raniry University. The informants of this study were English Education students of UIN Ar-Raniry with the average age 20 to 21. There were 12 students involved as the informants of this research. This qualitative study used wordlist interview and interview guide as its method of data collection. The data were analyzed descriptively. The study found that many Acehnese-Chamic derived lexical items were not used by the younger speakers of Acehnese. Furthermore, there was language change which occurred among the younger speakers of Acehnese which consisted of phonological loss in the form of initial consonant dropping, initial syllable dropping and monoptho...
This research was conducted to know the effect of Think-Talk-Write strategy on the students’ writ... more This research was conducted to know the effect of Think-Talk-Write strategy on the students’ writing analytical exposition improvement and to know the students’ responses toward the use of this strategy in teaching writing an analytical exposition text. This is a quasi-experimental research in which the samples were taken from two classes, experimental class (XI-IPA F) which consisted of 34 students and control class (XI-IPA G) which consisted of 36 students. The instruments of this research were pre-test and post-test. The result showed that the mean scores of pre-test in the experimental class was 61.47, while the mean score of post-test in the experimental class was 76.67. Moreover, both scores were analyzed by comparing the z-z-score of pre-test and post-test in the experimental class. The result of the z-test was -11.09 at the level significance 5% with assumption if the z-score is beyond -1.96 and 1.96, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) ...
The educational advertisements are displayed in various media: printed or electronic media. The a... more The educational advertisements are displayed in various media: printed or electronic media. The advertisements are set in many types, forms, and styles of the language used to persuade customers. However, they have not been clearly investigated yet until there are no certain determinates to these cases, especially, the language styles use. This research aims to describe the styles of language in the educational advertisement of The Jakarta Post newspaper published from May 2018 to August 2019. The theory used in this study was put forward by Moriarty, Mitchell, and Wells (2012). This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The results showed that there were three language styles from twenty-four advertisements that appeared in the educational advertisement on The Jakarta Post newspaper. These were hard-sell style, straightforward style, and the combination of hard-sell and straightforward. However, the most dominant language style appearing in the educational advertisement o...
This study is aimed at discovering the connotation and denotation that can be interpreted in shop... more This study is aimed at discovering the connotation and denotation that can be interpreted in shop signs found in Banda Aceh. Additionally, it also sought for the visuality, spatiality, and gestures that can be interpreted in shop sign found in Banda Aceh. This study used the qualitative approach in carrying out the research process which is the critical discourse analysis. The subject of this study was the shop signs that can be found in Banda Aceh while the object of this study is all the texts, pictures, and symbols in the signs. The data collection was done by taking pictures of the shop signs. The data analysis was carried out by using coding analysis and a three-step analysis. The results show that the denotation found in the shop signs are mostly the shop name, pictures, and philosophical symbols. Concerning to connotation, most meanings carried out in the shop signs are culturally interpreted. Moreover, concerning the visuality, the color used depends on the shop types whethe...
This study was aimed to find out the frequency of three- word and four- word of lexical bundles w... more This study was aimed to find out the frequency of three- word and four- word of lexical bundles which were used in the essay writing of the undergraduate students studying at English Education Department of Syiah Kuala University. This study employed a corpus based analysis which compiled a specialized small corpus consisting of 161 students’ essays under linguistic topic. In order to generate the frequent list of sequences, computational software named AntConc 3.5.8 by Laurent Anthony was used. The results showed that the number of three-word bundles was higher than four-word bundles in terms of the frequency of co-occurrence in which the most common expression the function of as three-word bundles and the advantages of being as four-word bundles were found.
This research focused on the politeness of the preachers (henceforth, Khatibs) in delivering serm... more This research focused on the politeness of the preachers (henceforth, Khatibs) in delivering sermons. The objective was to find out how politeness principles were applied in the Acehnese language sermons delivered by the Khatibs in Friday prayer processions in Aceh Besar, Indonesia. The data for this research was 15 Friday sermons given at seven sub-districts in Aceh Besar. This study used naturally occurring data from the Friday sermons collected over two months by recording them at 15 mosques within the area of Aceh Besar. Data were transcribed and analyzed using Grice’s maxim theory. The results showed that out of the six politeness maxims, only two maxims, the sympathy maxim, and the tact maxim were found and identified to be applied in the Friday prayer sermons. The sympathy maxim was dominantly used by the Khatibs with 52 occurrences or 68.4% of data, while the tact maxim was found to be used in 24 occurrences or 31.6% of data. Meanwhile, the approbation maxim, the agreement m...
Acehnese has been depicted for their heroism and craziness in great deal of literature as a resul... more Acehnese has been depicted for their heroism and craziness in great deal of literature as a result of their firm stand and continuous fight during the war against the Dutch colonial power at the turn of the 19 th to the 20 th century (Siegel, 1979; Hurgronje, 1906). As in a number of his other works of fiction, in his first novel of the Buru Quartet, This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer also makes many references to Aceh and the Acehnese (Toer, 1982). This paper aims to explore the aspects of heroism of Acehnese fighters and another side of human tragedies in the context of Aceh war as represented by Toer in this novel. The two themes are extracted and highlighted as the results of the analysis of Toer’s narrative through the flashback made by one of his characters much of whose life has been dictated by his past engagement against Acehnese fighters in a number of battles in Aceh. While the heroism is amplified as being part of the characteristics of the Acehnese fighters, t...
This research is analyzing of illocutionary acts performed by the main character Azzam in the nov... more This research is analyzing of illocutionary acts performed by the main character Azzam in the novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih . It is an Islamic novel. This research applied Searle’s theory and his 5 classifications, which are assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declaratives. This research used a qualitative method. Based on the findings of this research all of the types of illocutionary acts were found in this novel. The most common type found in this novel is directives. The reason is that Azzam, the main character, is described as someone who is hardworking, honest, and firm. These characteristics earn him respect from people around him and this gives him more opportunity to speak in a directive way. Therefore, ini this novel Azzam used a lot of directive type. The findings also showed that the types of illocutionary acts used by the main character in this novel are different from those used by the main character in fiction novels in earlies studies.
In using the language, people have a variety of style, one of them is code mixing. Indonesian-Eng... more In using the language, people have a variety of style, one of them is code mixing. Indonesian-English code mixing often uses by teenagers because of influence of popular movie like Cek Toko Sebelah that contain code mixing. The teenagers who watched this movie may be exposed to every aspect presented in the movie, including language use along with code-mixing phenomenon in it. Thus, it is significant to investigate the use of code mixing in this movie. The aim of this study is to find out the types of code mixing that are used in Cek Toko Sebelah movie and also to figure out the type of code mixing that is most frequently used in Cek Toko Sebelah movie. This study used qualitative method. In collecting the data, the writer used observation sheet and classified the data into 3 types of code mixing based on Muysken’s (2000) theory. The result of this study showed that 32 data or (63%) are categorized as insertion, 19 data or (37%) are categorized as alternation and no data of congruen...
The 2004 Tsunami changed the composition of Leupueng population in Aceh, to be more heterogeneous... more The 2004 Tsunami changed the composition of Leupueng population in Aceh, to be more heterogeneous. This study looks at the impact of this change on the use of Leupueng dialect features and found the reduced use of Leupueng dialect features among the children.
This research dealt with collocations used in the North Aceh dialect. It analyzed the part of spe... more This research dealt with collocations used in the North Aceh dialect. It analyzed the part of speech categories into which collocations of the North Aceh dialect can be grouped. This research focused on the grammatical collocations and lexical collocations used in the Blang Mee village of Bireuen District, Aceh, Indonesia. This is a descriptive qualitative using case study looking into the villagers’ use of Acehnese collocations. Six Acehnese speakers were selected as the language informants. They were fifty years old or above and never traveled or lived outside of Blang Mee. Data were extracted from interviews with these speakers who were asked to discuss general topics in Acehnese. The analysis was performed using a framework on collocation categories by Benson et al. The results of the analysis showed both lexical and grammatical collocations used by speakers in North Aceh. Lexical collocations were found in the forms of verb (denoting creation or activation) + noun combinations,...
Purpose of the study: This study was aimed at finding out the potentially disappearing adjectives... more Purpose of the study: This study was aimed at finding out the potentially disappearing adjectives in Acehnese and the reasons that may contribute to the disappearance by looking at the backgrounds of participants and their language use. Methodology: This is a sociolinguistic study employing questionnaires, wordlist interviews, and focus group interviews (FGI) as methods of data collection. Fifty Acehnese adjectives extracted from the Swadesh list were tested to 10 younger speakers (age 13-14), who were selected out of 113 respondents who returned the questionnaires. The selection criteria are considered to include age, origin, and parents’ origin. The respondents were all students of years 7 and 8 of a junior high school in a suburban area of Banda Aceh, considered the hot spot for the contact between Indonesian language speakers and Acehnese language speakers. Responses of the 10 participants interviewed were qualitatively analyzed to get the insights and circumstances of the use o...
It is surprising to find that there have been many shops in Banda Aceh that use English on their ... more It is surprising to find that there have been many shops in Banda Aceh that use English on their signs. This study was conducted to investigate the shop owners’ reasons for using English on their shop signs. To obtain the data from the shop owners, observation sheet and interview guide were used as the research instruments. The data were analyzed by using the model proposed by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014). It was found that the 10 shop owners gave four reasons they used English in their shop signs, which can be classified into the themes. They are 1) to be easily remembered; 2) to follow the trend; 3) to use their own name; and 4) to be unique. In conclusion, among four terms of reasons of shop owners in using English in their shop signs, the theme of “becoming unique” or distinctive is the most given reason by the shop owners.
YouTube is one of the biggest platforms where people around the world can share informative video... more YouTube is one of the biggest platforms where people around the world can share informative videos. In YouTube, we can find the code-switching and code-mixing phenomenon easily. There are two dominant types of code-switching and code-mixing. The first type is code-switching and code-mixing used by Group 1: Indonesian YouTubers who live abroad, while the second type is code-switching and code-mixing used by Group 2: Indonesian YouTubers who live in the country. This study aimed to find out which group switched and mixed language the most. The transcripts of the chosen YouTube video were the collected data. The qualitative method was used in this study, and the data were analyzed using document analysis based on the framework of Myers-Scotton (1993) and Muysken (2000). The result showed that Group 1 used code-switching and code-mixing the most, with a total of 288 pieces of data. Group 2 used code-switching and code-mixing with a total of 262 pieces of data. The most dominant type of...
This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of the mime media to enhance students’ wri... more This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of the mime media to enhance students’ writing skills on recount text at the tenth-grade students of Islamic Senior High School Langsa. This study is quantitative research which used some numerical data that were analyzed statistically. The subjects of this study were 42 students who were taken from X MIA 3 as an experimental group and X MIA 4 as a control group. The instruments used to collect the data were pretest, posttest, and questionnaire. The result of the pretest score in the experimental class was 63.61, and the result of the posttest score in the experimental class was 77. The result of the pretest score in the control class was 63.80, and the result of the posttest score in the control class was 74.47. The test of the hypothesis using the t-test formula showed that the t-count was higher than the t-table. The score of the t-value was 1.72, while t-table on = 5% with df 40 was 1.68, which means the hypothesis was accep...
The purposes of this study were to analyze the use of Acehnese-Chamic derived lexical items used ... more The purposes of this study were to analyze the use of Acehnese-Chamic derived lexical items used by young speakers. Besides, it also intended to find out whether there is a language change among younger speakers of Acehnese. The data were gathered at the English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UIN Ar-Raniry University. The informants of this study were English Education students of UIN Ar-Raniry with the average age 20 to 21. There were 12 students involved as the informants of this research. This qualitative study used wordlist interview and interview guide as its method of data collection. The data were analyzed descriptively. The study found that many Acehnese-Chamic derived lexical items were not used by the younger speakers of Acehnese. Furthermore, there was language change which occurred among the younger speakers of Acehnese which consisted of phonological loss in the form of initial consonant dropping, initial syllable dropping and monoptho...
This research was conducted to know the effect of Think-Talk-Write strategy on the students’ writ... more This research was conducted to know the effect of Think-Talk-Write strategy on the students’ writing analytical exposition improvement and to know the students’ responses toward the use of this strategy in teaching writing an analytical exposition text. This is a quasi-experimental research in which the samples were taken from two classes, experimental class (XI-IPA F) which consisted of 34 students and control class (XI-IPA G) which consisted of 36 students. The instruments of this research were pre-test and post-test. The result showed that the mean scores of pre-test in the experimental class was 61.47, while the mean score of post-test in the experimental class was 76.67. Moreover, both scores were analyzed by comparing the z-z-score of pre-test and post-test in the experimental class. The result of the z-test was -11.09 at the level significance 5% with assumption if the z-score is beyond -1.96 and 1.96, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) ...
The educational advertisements are displayed in various media: printed or electronic media. The a... more The educational advertisements are displayed in various media: printed or electronic media. The advertisements are set in many types, forms, and styles of the language used to persuade customers. However, they have not been clearly investigated yet until there are no certain determinates to these cases, especially, the language styles use. This research aims to describe the styles of language in the educational advertisement of The Jakarta Post newspaper published from May 2018 to August 2019. The theory used in this study was put forward by Moriarty, Mitchell, and Wells (2012). This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The results showed that there were three language styles from twenty-four advertisements that appeared in the educational advertisement on The Jakarta Post newspaper. These were hard-sell style, straightforward style, and the combination of hard-sell and straightforward. However, the most dominant language style appearing in the educational advertisement o...
This study is aimed at discovering the connotation and denotation that can be interpreted in shop... more This study is aimed at discovering the connotation and denotation that can be interpreted in shop signs found in Banda Aceh. Additionally, it also sought for the visuality, spatiality, and gestures that can be interpreted in shop sign found in Banda Aceh. This study used the qualitative approach in carrying out the research process which is the critical discourse analysis. The subject of this study was the shop signs that can be found in Banda Aceh while the object of this study is all the texts, pictures, and symbols in the signs. The data collection was done by taking pictures of the shop signs. The data analysis was carried out by using coding analysis and a three-step analysis. The results show that the denotation found in the shop signs are mostly the shop name, pictures, and philosophical symbols. Concerning to connotation, most meanings carried out in the shop signs are culturally interpreted. Moreover, concerning the visuality, the color used depends on the shop types whethe...
This study was aimed to find out the frequency of three- word and four- word of lexical bundles w... more This study was aimed to find out the frequency of three- word and four- word of lexical bundles which were used in the essay writing of the undergraduate students studying at English Education Department of Syiah Kuala University. This study employed a corpus based analysis which compiled a specialized small corpus consisting of 161 students’ essays under linguistic topic. In order to generate the frequent list of sequences, computational software named AntConc 3.5.8 by Laurent Anthony was used. The results showed that the number of three-word bundles was higher than four-word bundles in terms of the frequency of co-occurrence in which the most common expression the function of as three-word bundles and the advantages of being as four-word bundles were found.
The placement of songs as soundtracks in a movie must be in line with the atmosphere, characters,... more The placement of songs as soundtracks in a movie must be in line with the atmosphere, characters, and themes that are offered in the movie. By understanding the meanings of the songs, the selection of the songs can closely match with the atmosphere being represented. Personification adds the aesthetic values of a song as it is a type of figures of speech that requires creative cognitive process to understand its meaning. This study is a stylistic analysis of the soundtracks of a movie focusing on the use of personifications and their contexts. It examines the types and contexts of use of the personification used in the soundtracks of Movie Trolls. Using Zhu's (1991) framework, the study is set to classify all the personification use into three categories: Living Creature Personification, Non-living Creature personification, and Abstractions Personification. The study analyzed lyrics of 11 songs that were selected to feature the movie:
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