Aim: The quest for national cohesion is very important for any nation. This paper focuses on the way national cohesion could be achieved through the use of language and literature in Nigeria. Language is the means of communication, which also defines one’s culture. Consequently, literature mirrors the society, using language as its tool.
Methods: The library materials which include text books and journals were used. Also, interviews were also done on students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Results: English is the language that binds Nigerians since it is a multilingual nation, but other languages could be learnt by individuals for national cohesion, which resultant effect is unity. Furthermore, English and literature could be used in the integration of national cohesion and the use of language and literature should be interpreted so that a large percentage of the populace in the nation would understand it.
Conclusion: Teachers, scholars, researchers, and stakeholders should contribute immensely in the interpretation of language and literature for national cohesion.
Recommendation: The study recommends that in order to provide national cohesion, people should not only concentrate on their culture alone, but embrace acculturation.
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 Methods: The library materials which include text books and journals were used. Also, interviews were also done on students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
 Results: English is the language that binds Nigerians since it is a multilingual nation, but other languages could be learnt by individuals for national cohesion, which resultant effect is unity. Furthermore, English and literature could be used in the integration of national cohesion and the use of language and literature should be interpreted so that a large percentage of the populace in the nation would understand it.
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Aim: This paper discusses the language of religion as a discourse with the application of proverbs chapter. The paper examines the graphological features, the semantic features and the discourse cohesive devices in the text, proverbs chapter nine. Methods: The graphological features analyzed are the punctuation marks, indentation and capitalization. The cohesive relations examined are the lexical devices and the grammatical devices: the lexical devices include synonym; collocational converse; antonym and repetition. The grammatical devices are anaphora, cataphora, substitutions and conjunctions. The analysis is in this paper is done using the systemic grammar approach. Results: The semantic interpretation in the text is achieved through the use of proverbs and figures of speech. Conclusion: The analysis portrays and demonstrates language use in religion in general and proverbs chapter nine in particular. Recommendation: The authors recommend that researchers in linguistics and discourse analysis should conduct further researches in other areas of the language of religion to create awareness in religious language discourse.
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S. L. K. Yekple, D. Adade, F. Dorleku, I Y Vinyo, L. K. Adenyo, R. Akakpo-Ashiadey
Aim: Toponyms are universal to the globe but relevant and specific to cultures across the world. Humans use toponyms in various contexts in society. Toponyms are avoided in a particular speech context, due to its social, linguistic and cultural consequences for the name bearer and users. Toponyms sometimes attract ambiguity in the meaning assigned them. This ambiguity degenerates into connotative meanings. One such connotative practice among the Ewes is profanity. The Ewes frown on the use of profane words and has punitive codes and consequences for its guilt. However same community beautifully internalizes profane connotation into place names. This paper investigates the morphology of profanity in Ewe toponyms using linguistic anthropology and lexical morphology. Methods: Data for the qualitative study was collected using a WhatsApp platform for Tutors of Ewe. Results: The study found that the connotation centered on the human genitalia (penis, scrotum, vagina) have been the sources of compounding in the crafting of profanity in the place names. The names are used mainly by the youth in teasing and in group joking practices in oral language generally in casual or playful communication. The names usually have roots and stems that take on derivational and inflectional morphemes in the process of forming the profane connotation. Conclusion: Though the Ewes frown upon profanity in official language, the usage in place names is decorous and linguistically acceptable. The appropriate use of these names in jovial in-group and entertaining utterances demonstrates the linguistic competence of the interlocutors of the speech act. Recommendation: The study recommends a further research on the syntactic implications of the profane names in the Ewe language.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.67962
Selvia Rosa Magdalena Purba, M. Rosyidi
Industrialization in England had a great impact on the life of the world. However, the emergence of stratification sometimes leads society to divisions where conflict is inevitable. The condition let the true human relation be fractured. George Eliot’s Silas Marner portrays the class stratification classes in Warwickshire, England. The aims of this study are to describe kinship destruction as the result of English’s social stratification in George Eliot’s Silas Marner and to explain the reflection of society’s world vision where the author lived on the novel. The method used is the qualitative study and analysed by using Lucien Goldmann’s theory of genetic structuralism. Silas Marner shows that kinship destruction occurred is rooted from differentiation in society. The upper class are described as the one who always benefits and vice versa. Eventually, this is evoked social jealousy and conflicts. Meanwhile, society’s world vision that described is the bad result of social stratification in Warwickshire especially between landed gentry and local farmer. Eliot seemed to convey that social stratification existed is a trigger to a kinship destruction since the differentiations tend to create a conflict among them
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Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.65856
K. Luthfia, Juliasih Juliasih, Nur Saktiningrum
Legitimacy of women existences captured diverse and compound through the lens of cultural and social background. In the course of history, American Indigenous Women elucidated their identity articulation following the West at the hand of feminism. However, ‘white’ feminism is not in the position to accommodate the unique characteristics of American Indigenous Women. Their social contour and cultural commandment of which giving a rise out of their position and power cried out for suitable paradigm. Indigenous feminism as perspective from and to Indigenous Women would serve to scrutinize women empowerment, aspiration and self-actualization of American Indigenous Women. The article as presented is part of the dissertation analysis within the title Cultural Memory and Demystification of American Native Women’ Position. The analysis of this research is a library based employing the novel from Indigenous female author, Louise Erdrich, entitled The Plague of Dove. In the discussion, the portrayal and representation of certain social and cultural phenomena have been captured and put into consideration as Indigenous Women’s struggle in this modern days. The regulation and also power to determine Indigenous Women’ identity have been strictly limited due to the presence of oppression. The unique of this research laid on the characteristics of the source of oppression in which is in a cooperated linkage within the paradigm employed which is Indigenous feminism. As there are diverse social and traditional elements brought, this research went deep in to the intersectionality studies, focusing on the sexism, racism and colonialism issues predominantly captured as the root of the oppression and discrimination against Indigenous Women.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.63277
Elisa Dwi Wardani, I. Adi, Pujiharto Pujiharto
Paradoxical as it may be, Anak Rantau both problematizes the practice of outmigration tradition in Minangkabau culture, yet campaigns for the perpetuation of Minangkabau tradition at the same time. By highlighting the darker side of the impact of outmigration, the novel advises returning to the religion-based tradition which works through the revitalization of the surau, as a learning center, and less-materially oriented outmigration for remedy. Although it is apparent that the meaning of outmigration is being rearticulated in the novel, it is also inevitable to notice that the novel perceives the ecological destruction, the waning tradition, and the spiritually corrupt village as a failure of modernity, creating a learning loss among the Minangkabau’s youngsters. This paper uses Bhabha’s perspective of modernity and his theory of the Third Space of enunciation to reveal how the meaning of outmigration has been rearticulated in the novel and how it intersects with the powerful discourse of modernity. This paper tries to show that, first of all, in the attempts to rearticulate the long institutionalized outmigration tradition of Minangkabau people by questioning the virtue of its materialistic orientation, and problematizing the concept of ‘home’ and ‘rantau’, the novel actually tries to closely adhere to the Minangkabau tradition. Secondly, it also tries to show that the problem of learning loss is pronounced well in the anxieties over the undermining of Minangkabau traditional values.
Anak Rantau既质疑米南卡堡文化中外迁传统的做法，同时又为米南卡堡传统的延续而运动，这可能是自相矛盾的。通过强调外迁影响的阴暗面，小说建议回归以宗教为基础的传统，通过振兴surau作为学习中心，以及较少以物质为导向的外迁来补救。虽然小说中重新阐释了外迁的意义，但我们也不可避免地注意到，小说将生态破坏、传统衰落和精神堕落的村庄视为现代性的失败，在米南卡保的年轻人中造成了学习损失。本文运用巴巴的现代性视角和他的第三空间表达理论来揭示小说中外迁的意义是如何被重新阐释的，以及它是如何与现代性的强大话语相交的。本文试图表明，首先，小说试图通过质疑米南卡堡人的物质取向的美德来重新阐释米南卡堡人长期制度化的外迁传统，并对“家”和“兰特”的概念提出质疑，实际上是在试图紧紧地坚持米南卡堡人的传统。其次，本文还试图表明，学习损失问题在米南卡堡传统价值观遭到破坏的焦虑中得到了很好的体现。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.67067
Dian Budiarti, Tofan Dwi Hardjanto, Ihsan Nur Iman Faris
This study aims to compare verb variation and the functions of hedges used in English scientific research articles written by English native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers from Indonesia (NNS). The data were collected from a corpus of 30 international journal articles. The analysis was conducted quantitatively using a normalization system and statistical tests to determine the frequency and distribution of lexical verbs and qualitatively using Palmer’s (2001) and Hyland’s (1996) hedging model to identify the forms and specific functions of the hedges. The findings demonstrate that both NS and NNS used speculative, deductive, quotative, and sensorial verbs as hedges. However, NS used speculative and sensorial verbs more frequently, while NNS used deductive and quotative verbs more frequently. Statistically, the frequency and distribution of hedges in the two categories of writers were not significantly different. Both NS and NNS tend to use lexical verbs to protect themselves as writers by limiting personal commitments and to protect their readers by anticipating rejection based on subjectivity. These findings contribute to the understanding of hedging use in academic writing by NNS from Indonesia and provide implications for English language teaching and learning.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.67064
M. Muhlisin, Ni Ketut Putri Nila Sudewi
As the marginalized and minority group in America, Black people’s lives were under the control and influence of White hegemony. This condition affected their social, economic, and cultural activities. This study aims to identify the form of dysfunction in the family, the cause of dysfunction in the family, and the effect on children’s psychology. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. The researchers use a novel written by Toni Morrison entitled The Bluest Eye as the primary source of data. Additionally, some books, journal articles, and relevant internet sources use as secondary sources. Then, the data was collected and analyzed in several steps. The result shows that the dysfunction in the family is in the form of maltreatment of the family members that are influenced by the pain of the parent’s childhood. It eventually leads to the way how they treat or build relationships with their children and others. The impact of this dysfunctional family on the children is that they become malicious and impulsive, and suffer from a mental disorder or schizophrenia.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.67022
Tsalits Syafa'atun Nashiroh, Ribut Wahyudi
The mass media opposed Donald Trump for his victory as president in the 2016 U.S election because he was considered involved in exploiting voters’ personal data. This issue was narrated in “The Great Hack” movie. This study attempted to scrutinize propaganda message potential through linguistic and non-linguistic (visual) components in that movie and investigate how both types of components interplayed to create the intended message. The analysis was presented across two axes. First, by using Halliday and Matthiessen’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study primarily focused on the propaganda messages constructed through words, phrases, and clauses. The visual components were analyzed in the second step as complementary analysis. The study found that “The Great Hack” movie wants to construct realities that Donald Trump unfairly gained a victory for the election with Hillary Clinton as a deliberately weakened candidate. In addition, the linguistic and visual components have relations to reinforce and elaborate the intended messages.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v12i1.64165
E. Riyanti, Tofan Dwi Hardjanto
Women contribute almost half of the total internet users in Indonesia and millennial mothers are a significant group of internet users, especially social media. This makes the millennial mother group vulnerable to crime in the digital space. One form of crime is body shaming which is part of mom-shaming. In this study, we investigate body shaming from the perspective of Discourse Analysis using Halliday and Hasan's classification on lexical cohesion. We focus on three categories in lexical cohesion, which are repetition, synonymy, and antonymy to illustrate lexical cohesion in IbuHamil.com’s discussion forum. Body shaming discussed in the article sources from a thread in Ngobrol Apa Saja forum in IbuHamil.com. The thread discussing body shaming experience receives 37 responses in 18 days. In terms of lexical cohesion, the data display 300 words in repetition with 28 inflected words, 38 words in synonymy, and 16 words in antonymy. There are some typical words in illustrating physical features in body shaming, which mainly highlight weight, height, and attempts to achieve an ideal body mass index. The discussion forum also demonstrates the frequent use of contraction which characterizes the internet chat room communication. Additionally, users' responses express empathy and support to the topic starter. The users also propose advice on handling body shaming and how to avoid it in the future.
女性占印尼互联网用户总数的近一半，千禧一代的母亲是一个重要的互联网用户群体，尤其是社交媒体。这使得千禧一代的母亲群体在数字空间中容易受到犯罪的攻击。一种形式的犯罪是身体羞辱，这是母亲羞辱的一部分。本文运用韩礼德和哈桑的词汇衔接分类理论，从语篇分析的角度对身体羞辱现象进行了研究。在IbuHamil.com的论坛中，我们主要从词汇衔接的三个范畴，即重复、同义词和反义词来说明词汇衔接。在IbuHamil.com的Ngobrol Apa Saja论坛上，一篇文章讨论了身体羞辱。讨论身体羞辱经历的帖子在18天内收到了37条回复。在词汇衔接方面，数据显示300个重复词，其中屈折词28个，同义词38个，反义词16个。在身体羞辱中，有一些典型的词汇来描述身体特征，主要是突出体重、身高，以及试图达到理想的体重指数。该论坛还展示了网络聊天室交流中频繁使用的缩略语。此外，用户的反应表达了对话题发起者的同情和支持。用户们还就如何处理身体羞辱以及如何在未来避免它提出了建议。
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