Darsono, Fahruddin, Muhammad Iqbal Birsyada, Loso Judijanto, Asbullah Muslim, Arif Saefudin, K. Saddhono
Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Island Tetralogy (The Buru Quartet), consisting of four novels, provides deep insights into the social, political, and implicit ecological impacts of colonialism in Indonesia. This research aims to analyse the themes of environmental exploitation narrated in the novels, providing an ecocritical perspective on colonial practices and their impact on environmental sustainability and social justice. This research method uses an ecocritical framework approach with an in-depth reading of the novel's text. This approach explores and interprets how Toer portrays colonial history and its impact on the environment. The results show that an ecocritical study of the Buru Quartet reveals the complex interactions between humans, political systems, and the ecological environment monopolised by Dutch colonialism. Although the novel's main focus is racial and social injustice, it also includes ecological aspects, such as exploiting natural resources through forced cultivation by Dutch colonials, drastically changing the local landscape and biodiversity. This study reveals how colonialism was not only socially and politically oppressive but also played a crucial role in damaging the ecology of colonised areas. The implications of this study are mainly related to the importance of understanding literature as a means of reflection and critique on environmental and colonial issues. In the current global context, where issues of exploitation and environmental degradation are still highly relevant, works such as The Buru Quartet offer important insights into how historical and ecological narratives can converge to critique environmentally unsustainable development models.
普拉莫迪娅-阿南塔-托尔（Pramoedya Ananta Toer）的《布鲁岛四部曲》（The Buru Quartet）由四部小说组成，深刻揭示了印度尼西亚殖民主义对社会、政治和隐性生态的影响。本研究旨在分析小说中叙述的环境开发主题，从生态批判的角度探讨殖民实践及其对环境可持续性和社会正义的影响。本研究方法采用生态批判框架方法，对小说文本进行深入解读。这种方法探讨并解释了 Toer 如何描绘殖民历史及其对环境的影响。研究结果表明，对《布鲁四重奏》的生态批评研究揭示了人类、政治制度和被荷兰殖民主义垄断的生态环境之间复杂的互动关系。虽然小说的主要焦点是种族和社会不公，但也包括生态方面的内容，如荷兰殖民者通过强制耕种开采自然资源，极大地改变了当地的景观和生物多样性。本研究揭示了殖民主义不仅在社会和政治上具有压迫性，而且在破坏殖民地生态方面也发挥了至关重要的作用。本研究的意义主要在于将文学理解为对环境和殖民问题进行反思和批判的重要手段。在当前全球背景下，剥削和环境退化问题仍具有高度相关性，《布鲁四重奏》等作品为历史和生态叙事如何融合以批判环境上不可持续的发展模式提供了重要启示。
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R. K. Rahardi, Y. Setyaningsih, Wahyudi Rahmatika, N. Lateh
There remains to be a scarcity of pragmatic studies that rely on analysis tools in the literary dimension. It is also deemed not too important to relate the linguistics field to understanding the beauty and metaphoric meanings in the literature. This study describes the metaphors in emotive phrases from a pragmatic stylistic standpoint and their pragmatic connotations. This study identified symbolic utterances of a novel's emotive terms. Thus, this study relied on novel excerpts with metaphorical emotive word meanings. Sindhunata's Gramedia Pustaka Utama book Anak Bajang Menggiring Angin provided source data. The data were collected by observation and then analyzed using distributional analysis. The extralinguistic dimensions of this study were analyzed via a contextual method, especially the extra-lingual equivalent method. This study found anthropomorphic, abstract, and animal imagery analogies. The collected data shows that metaphors have four pragmatic meanings: connotative, emotive, introspective, and collocative. Understanding these meanings is not just confined to a purely literary perspective, as literature and language are like two-sided coins; one field cannot be separated from the other. So, there will be more literary studies with an interdisciplinary perspective on literature and linguistics in the future.
依赖文学维度分析工具的语用学研究仍然很少。将语言学领域与理解文学作品中的美和隐喻意义联系起来也被认为不太重要。本研究从语用文体的角度描述了情感短语中的隐喻及其语用内涵。本研究确定了小说情感词的象征性语句。因此，本研究依赖于带有隐喻性情感词含义的小说节选。Sindhunata 的 Gramedia Pustaka Utama 书籍《Anak Bajang Menggiring Angin》提供了原始数据。数据通过观察收集，然后使用分布分析法进行分析。本研究的语外维度是通过语境法，尤其是语外等效法进行分析的。本研究发现了拟人、抽象和动物意象类比。收集到的数据表明，隐喻有四种实用含义：内涵、情感、内省和搭配。对这些意义的理解不仅仅局限于纯文学的视角，因为文学和语言就像双面硬币，一个领域离不开另一个领域。因此，今后会有更多的文学研究从跨学科的角度来研究文学和语言学。
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This paper focuses on the impact of Hurricane Katrina—which hit parts of the U.S. South, especially New Orleans, in 2005—on African American coming-of-age novels. In particular, we argue that Hurricane Katrina constitutes a watershed moment in African American coming-of-age narratives, bringing about changes in identity formation and self-realization concerns that are typically associated with pre-Katrina African American coming-of-age novels. To develop our argument, we study two post-Katrina African American coming-of-age narratives: Ninth Ward (2010) by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Salvage the Bones (2011) by Jesmyn Ward. We suggest that these two narratives exemplify those changes through conforming to the Black Radical Tradition, as theorized by Cedric Robinson. The two novels, we show, not only lay bare the systemic racism that came to the fore in the aftermath of the hurricane but also highlight African Americans’ resistance strategies in the face of such racism.
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This paper examines the impact of Tanzania’s language policy on the promotion of the Chinese language within Tanzania. The objective is to delve into the evolution of Tanzania’s language policy across different eras, understand the factors influencing language policy in Tanzania, and analyze how the present Tanzanian language policy affects the dissemination of the Chinese language. The results reveal that Tanzania’s current language policy has both positive and negative effects on the promotion of the Chinese language within the country. Based on the research findings, the authors propose strategies to further enhance the teaching of the Chinese language in Tanzania.
{"title":"Examining the Impact of Tanzania's Language Policy in Education on Promoting the Chinese Language in Tanzania","authors":"Charles Aniseti Kambaya, Xiao Hong","doi":"10.17507/tpls.1408.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1408.08","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the impact of Tanzania’s language policy on the promotion of the Chinese language within Tanzania. The objective is to delve into the evolution of Tanzania’s language policy across different eras, understand the factors influencing language policy in Tanzania, and analyze how the present Tanzanian language policy affects the dissemination of the Chinese language. The results reveal that Tanzania’s current language policy has both positive and negative effects on the promotion of the Chinese language within the country. Based on the research findings, the authors propose strategies to further enhance the teaching of the Chinese language in Tanzania.","PeriodicalId":23004,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Practice in Language Studies","volume":"6 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Project-based learning has drawn the attention of language educators in recent years. With technology increasingly becoming an integral part of language education, how technology-enhanced PBL facilitates students’ reading in the Chinese EFL context still needs further exploration. Through a year-long reading project, this study explored the affordances that PBL could provide for Chinese EFL students in their reading engagement. Data include a survey, interviews, and documents, such as videotaped presentations. The problems and challenges in this project’s implementation are also discussed.
{"title":"Engaging Chinese EFL Students’ Reading Through PBL in a Blended Learning Environment","authors":"Sue Wang","doi":"10.17507/tpls.1408.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1408.27","url":null,"abstract":"Project-based learning has drawn the attention of language educators in recent years. With technology increasingly becoming an integral part of language education, how technology-enhanced PBL facilitates students’ reading in the Chinese EFL context still needs further exploration. Through a year-long reading project, this study explored the affordances that PBL could provide for Chinese EFL students in their reading engagement. Data include a survey, interviews, and documents, such as videotaped presentations. The problems and challenges in this project’s implementation are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":23004,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Practice in Language Studies","volume":"58 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aims to study argumentation in political debates by figuring out the logical fallacies employed in the debates of Clinton and Trump, the presidential nominees of the 2016 elections, and Biden and Trump, the leading contenders in the 2020 United States presidential election. The study attempts to answer the questions: (1) What relevance fallacies are adopted in the debate between Trump and Clinton? (2) What rhetorical devices are used to influence the audience and gain voters besides fallacies in the debates selected? The study analyses two texts from two arguments using Damer's (2009) taxonomy of relevance fallacy and rhetorical devices based on Perrine’s (1969) model of communication and interpersonal rhetoric to answer the two research questions. The significance of the pragma-rhetorical study of political debates resides in the role of investigating the pragmatic and rhetorical structure of political debates selected to encourage critical thinking, promote informed decision-making, and build a more effective and substantive political conversation. The analysis revealed that unlike Hillary, Trump uses the wrong reason, conclusion, and genetic fallacy and appeals to irrelevant authority and common opinion. Biden uses rationalisation, appealing to outside authority, and using the wrong reason. In terms of rhetoric, Trump, Clinton, and Biden all employ overstatement rather than other rhetorical devices to boost the shortcomings of their competitors and show them as unreliable in leading America in crisis. Other devices are absent except ‘understatement’, which appears for once, referring to the government's weak response to the crisis of COVID-19.
{"title":"Fallacy as a Strategy of Argumentation in Political Debates","authors":"Nawal F. Abbas, A. Muslah, Afrah S. Najem","doi":"10.17507/tpls.1408.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1408.12","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to study argumentation in political debates by figuring out the logical fallacies employed in the debates of Clinton and Trump, the presidential nominees of the 2016 elections, and Biden and Trump, the leading contenders in the 2020 United States presidential election. The study attempts to answer the questions: (1) What relevance fallacies are adopted in the debate between Trump and Clinton? (2) What rhetorical devices are used to influence the audience and gain voters besides fallacies in the debates selected? The study analyses two texts from two arguments using Damer's (2009) taxonomy of relevance fallacy and rhetorical devices based on Perrine’s (1969) model of communication and interpersonal rhetoric to answer the two research questions. The significance of the pragma-rhetorical study of political debates resides in the role of investigating the pragmatic and rhetorical structure of political debates selected to encourage critical thinking, promote informed decision-making, and build a more effective and substantive political conversation. The analysis revealed that unlike Hillary, Trump uses the wrong reason, conclusion, and genetic fallacy and appeals to irrelevant authority and common opinion. Biden uses rationalisation, appealing to outside authority, and using the wrong reason. In terms of rhetoric, Trump, Clinton, and Biden all employ overstatement rather than other rhetorical devices to boost the shortcomings of their competitors and show them as unreliable in leading America in crisis. Other devices are absent except ‘understatement’, which appears for once, referring to the government's weak response to the crisis of COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":23004,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Practice in Language Studies","volume":"64 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuying Wang, Wei Xu, Kaining Guan, Jin Zhao, Ping Wu
English teachers’ post-pandemic motivational experiences within Macau’s hybrid postcolonial context have not been extensively investigated, although teacher motivation is crucial to the quality of education and student outcomes. This qualitative study aimed to address this gap by interviewing 13 English teachers across Macau universities about their motivations. Semi-structured interviews were iteratively coded to identify key themes. The results indicated that intrinsic motivations included a passion for teaching and helping students, as well as an altruistic desire to contribute. Positive relationships between students and teachers motivated participants, while disengaged student behavior, a lack of participation in policies, unclear roles, and unbalanced workloads demotivated them. University culture, curriculum, and governance were viewed as a means of providing purpose and empowerment through social responsibility. The motivational sustainability process included recommendations regarding reducing teaching hours, improving teacher governance, improving research support, and clarifying faculty responsibilities as part of the motivational sustainability process. While the results were limited to an exploratory study, they provided insight into how to align practices with the intrinsic aspirations of Macau’s university English teachers to re-engage them.
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Eny Maulita Purnama Sari, R. Santosa, D. Djatmika, T. Wiratno
This study examined media-framed investment fraud issues through critical discourse analysis (CDA) by Fairclough (1995). It analyzed the impact of context on text, employing van Dijk's (2009) theory of news discourse and van Leeuwen's (2008) framework for social actors (SAs) in investment fraud news, they were the affiliate (AF), the investor (IF), and the police (PL). Transitivity analysis (TA) was used to assess power relationships, while the appraisal system (AS) was used to identify SA’s attitudes. Framing served various purposes, enhancing salience in news contexts. In investment fraud news, the AF was portrayed as a target with immoral attitudes, the IF as un/fortunate behavers, and the PL as trustworthy sayers. The data obtained from Indonesian online media during the investment fraud reports were analyzed. The study utilized systemic functional linguistics (SFL) within CDA, integrating transitivity analysis for power relations and the appraisal system for attitude analysis of each social actor. The results demonstrated how the social actors shape the construction of social and economic values, influencing the public perceptions and beliefs of the business investment.
本研究通过费尔克拉夫（Fairclough，1995 年）的批判性话语分析（CDA）研究了媒体报道的投资欺诈问题。研究分析了语境对文本的影响，采用了 van Dijk（2009 年）的新闻话语理论和 van Leeuwen（2008 年）的投资欺诈新闻中的社会行动者（SAs）框架，即关联方（AF）、投资者（IF）和警方（PL）。Transitivity analysis (TA) 用于评估权力关系，而 appraisal system (AS) 则用于确定 SA 的态度。框架设计有多种目的，可提高新闻背景下的显著性。在投资欺诈新闻中，AF 被描绘成具有不道德态度的目标，IF 被描绘成行为不端/不幸的人，而 PL 则被描绘成值得信赖的言论者。研究分析了投资欺诈报道期间从印尼网络媒体获得的数据。该研究在 CDA 中使用了系统功能语言学（SFL），整合了用于分析权力关系的转换性分析和用于分析每个社会行动者态度的评价系统。研究结果表明了社会行动者如何塑造社会和经济价值观，影响公众对商业投资的看法和信念。
{"title":"Examining Social Actors in Investment Fraud News: A Transitivity and Appraisal Analysis","authors":"Eny Maulita Purnama Sari, R. Santosa, D. Djatmika, T. Wiratno","doi":"10.17507/tpls.1407.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1407.23","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined media-framed investment fraud issues through critical discourse analysis (CDA) by Fairclough (1995). It analyzed the impact of context on text, employing van Dijk's (2009) theory of news discourse and van Leeuwen's (2008) framework for social actors (SAs) in investment fraud news, they were the affiliate (AF), the investor (IF), and the police (PL). Transitivity analysis (TA) was used to assess power relationships, while the appraisal system (AS) was used to identify SA’s attitudes. Framing served various purposes, enhancing salience in news contexts. In investment fraud news, the AF was portrayed as a target with immoral attitudes, the IF as un/fortunate behavers, and the PL as trustworthy sayers. The data obtained from Indonesian online media during the investment fraud reports were analyzed. The study utilized systemic functional linguistics (SFL) within CDA, integrating transitivity analysis for power relations and the appraisal system for attitude analysis of each social actor. The results demonstrated how the social actors shape the construction of social and economic values, influencing the public perceptions and beliefs of the business investment.","PeriodicalId":23004,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Practice in Language Studies","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141828682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This qualitative study conducts three in-depth interviews with language educators representing the Faculties of Chinese, English, and Russian Linguistics at a university in Vietnam. The research aims to explore their experiences and perspectives amid the rapid digital transformation catalyzed by the post COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on their adaptation to online assessment. Utilizing a semi-structured interview format with open-ended questions, the study comprehensively examines various aspects of online assessment techniques, the challenges faced during the pandemic, and the future implications of blended learning in higher education. The findings highlight the remarkable adaptability and resilience of language educators in responding to the multifaceted challenges. Despite the abrupt shift to online assessment methods, these educators effectively embraced innovative approaches, reflecting their commitment to upholding academic standards amidst adversity. The research underscores the critical importance of higher education institutions prioritizing investments in the professional development of educators and equipping students with essential digital skills. Beyond preserving the educational advancements made during the pandemic, it positions higher education for a future in which technology drives profound transformations in learning and assessment methodologies. In essence, this study offers valuable insights into the adaptability and resilience of language educators, illuminating the path forward for higher education in an increasingly digital landscape.
{"title":"Language Teachers’ Adaptability to Digital Transformation: Online Assessment Practices in Vietnam Higher Education","authors":"Truc Tran-Thi-Thanh","doi":"10.17507/tpls.1407.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1407.34","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study conducts three in-depth interviews with language educators representing the Faculties of Chinese, English, and Russian Linguistics at a university in Vietnam. The research aims to explore their experiences and perspectives amid the rapid digital transformation catalyzed by the post COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on their adaptation to online assessment. Utilizing a semi-structured interview format with open-ended questions, the study comprehensively examines various aspects of online assessment techniques, the challenges faced during the pandemic, and the future implications of blended learning in higher education. The findings highlight the remarkable adaptability and resilience of language educators in responding to the multifaceted challenges. Despite the abrupt shift to online assessment methods, these educators effectively embraced innovative approaches, reflecting their commitment to upholding academic standards amidst adversity. The research underscores the critical importance of higher education institutions prioritizing investments in the professional development of educators and equipping students with essential digital skills. Beyond preserving the educational advancements made during the pandemic, it positions higher education for a future in which technology drives profound transformations in learning and assessment methodologies. In essence, this study offers valuable insights into the adaptability and resilience of language educators, illuminating the path forward for higher education in an increasingly digital landscape.","PeriodicalId":23004,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Practice in Language Studies","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141830053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study explores EFL teachers’ perceptions of the language learning plateau and identifies the recommendations teachers have for overcoming it. Thematic analysis is used to analyse the data from ten English teachers who teach students from intermediate to advanced levels. The findings show that there is a lack of awareness of the term among EFL teachers, yet the idea of the plateau is familiar. Surprisingly, some teachers are found to be in the plateau themselves. This study also discusses the issues teachers are struggling with, and some useful strategies they use to help students move beyond the plateau.
{"title":"Language Learning Plateau: EFL Teachers’ Perceptions and Practical Recommendations","authors":"Dinara Utegulova, Kulpash Koptleuova, Nurkhanym Bauyrzhan, Sandugash Mukhtarova, Akhmaral Khairzhanova, Danagul Assylzhanova","doi":"10.17507/tpls.1407.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1407.35","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores EFL teachers’ perceptions of the language learning plateau and identifies the recommendations teachers have for overcoming it. Thematic analysis is used to analyse the data from ten English teachers who teach students from intermediate to advanced levels. The findings show that there is a lack of awareness of the term among EFL teachers, yet the idea of the plateau is familiar. Surprisingly, some teachers are found to be in the plateau themselves. This study also discusses the issues teachers are struggling with, and some useful strategies they use to help students move beyond the plateau.","PeriodicalId":23004,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Practice in Language Studies","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141830956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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