Pub Date : 2022-04-10DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i2.106512
Fikri Rahmat, Desvalini Anwar
This article is about the analysis of a novel Far Away from Tree (2017) by Andrew Solomon. There are two keywords that need to be explained in this study: Fighting and disability condition. According to Merriam-Webster (2018) fight means to put effort as determined effort. While according to Merriam Webster Dictionary disability means a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, interferes with, or limits a person’s ability to engage in certain tasks or actions or participate in typical daily activities and interaction. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary condition means something essential to the appearance or occurrence of something else
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Pub Date : 2022-04-10DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i3.100522
Krisepan Nainggolan, Fitrawati Fitrawati
This study aims to determine the phenomenon of code switching and code mixing in the Toba Batak student community at Padang State University. The method used in this research is descriptive. The data from this study are utterances or expressions of conversation between Toba Batak students who can be seen on the dialogue transcript. Code switching was found in this study as many as 24 data, while the mixed code was found as many as 29 data. Research findings show that conversations between students of the Toba Batak community at Padang State University more often use 29 data mixed codes, while 24 code changes are found. Furthermore, for the type of code switching found inter-sentential switching as the type that appears the most as many as 13 data (54.17%), while for the mixed code type found the insertion of words is the most frequently used as many as 21 data (72.42%). Next, for the reason that code switching is most often found is talk about particular topic as many as 15 data (62.5%), while for the purpose of mixed code that is often found, the socio expressive function is 19 data (65.5%).
{"title":"An Analysis of Code Switching and Code Mixing used by Students from North Sumatra in State Universityb of Padang","authors":"Krisepan Nainggolan, Fitrawati Fitrawati","doi":"10.24036/ell.v10i3.100522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24036/ell.v10i3.100522","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to determine the phenomenon of code switching and code mixing in the Toba Batak student community at Padang State University. The method used in this research is descriptive. The data from this study are utterances or expressions of conversation between Toba Batak students who can be seen on the dialogue transcript. Code switching was found in this study as many as 24 data, while the mixed code was found as many as 29 data. Research findings show that conversations between students of the Toba Batak community at Padang State University more often use 29 data mixed codes, while 24 code changes are found. Furthermore, for the type of code switching found inter-sentential switching as the type that appears the most as many as 13 data (54.17%), while for the mixed code type found the insertion of words is the most frequently used as many as 21 data (72.42%). Next, for the reason that code switching is most often found is talk about particular topic as many as 15 data (62.5%), while for the purpose of mixed code that is often found, the socio expressive function is 19 data (65.5%).","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89597182","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i1.115208
Ritma Ritma, L. Marlina
AbstractThis study is aimed to seek how far the novel of We Cast A Shadow (2019) by Maurice Carlos Ruffin reflected the issues of racial discrimination. Racial discrimination refers to the character who face discrimination through mistreatment and violence that make a great impact in the future. The unnamed character had been through a difficult time since he was a child. This analysis is related to the postcolonial theory proposed by Pieterse and Powell (2016). The use of theory was based on the interpretation in the text and context of the novel. The data was collected from the quotation in the novel. The data collection was in the form of sentences and paragraphs. This research was a descriptive and content analysis study. The result of the study shows that the racial discrimination of African-American character can be seen through violence to African-American and arbitrary Policy on Economic Aspect. In conclusion, in this post-civil rights movement era, African-Americans still face racial discrimination.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i1.113053
Yoan Andino, Hermawati Syarif
Slang is the most informal form of cammunication in certai communities, Yule (2006). Slang comes in different kind of varities based on the process it appear. Song is one of many media that slang could appear and exist. Some song creator include slang as one of their prefer word selection putting in the lyrics. One of the singer is Benjamin Zephaniah. Benjamin uses a lot of slang in his song. This kind of phenomenon in language, slang, interest linguists to analyze songs that have slang but only a few study in Benjamin Zephaniah works. This research analyze slangs that occur in Benjamin Zephaniag songs using theory of language varities by Yule. There are six types of slangs that exist in Benjamin’s selected songs. Most common slang are coinage and multiple process. The goal of Benjamin using slang on his works are to show his identitiy as african born and to show his hate against racism.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i1.113872
Sherynn Delaneira Wongkaren, Delvi Wahyuni
This is an analysis of the novel entitled Sold (2006) written by Patricia MacCormick. This analysis looks at the agency shown by female characters in the novel who suffered because of patriarchy in Nepal. This analysis uses the concept of agency seen from feminist perspective. The analysis focuses on the agency form shown by female characters. This analysis uses fictional devices such as setting, plot, character to discover the issue. The result of the study shows female character shown agency in the form of intrinsic agency, self-definition and self-direction.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i1.112216
Syukrawardi Z, Havid Ardi
Makalah ini bertujuan untuk (1) Mengidentifikasi tipe-tipe pertanyaan, (2) Pola-pola pertanyaan yang digunakan oleh guru-guru Tiji Homeschooling terhadap siswa penyandang Asperger. Kemudian, (3) juga mengidentifikasi jenis-jenis tanggapan dari siswa penyandang Asperger terhadap pertanyaan-pertanyaan dari guru-guru tersebut. Makalah ini mengambil 5 kali rekaman dialog antara anak penyandang Asperger dengan guru-guru ketika proses belajar mengajar sebagai data, yaitu ujaran- ujaran yang termasuk ke dalam rogative. Dari hasil penelitian, terlihat adanya 430 pertanyaan dimana jenis direct rogative dengan jumlah 373 (86,7%) yang paling banyak digunakan dan jenis indirect rogative tidak langsung 57 (13,3%). dari pengelompokkan jenis pertanyaan, ditemukan sebanyak 372 (86,5%) information-seeking question, 47 (10,9%) information-checking question, dan 11 (2,6%) clarification question, guru banyak menggunakan information-seeking question. Kemudian, juga ditemukan jenis-jenis tanggapan sebanyak 112 tanggapan yaitu absurd response (AR) 18 tanggapan, odd response (OR) 62 tanggapan, more relevant but not very polite (RnP) 6 tanggapan, dan marginal response (MR) 26 tanggapan dimana odd response paling banyak muncul sebagai tanggapan terhadap pertanyaan guru-guru. Data ini menyimpulkan bahwa jenis tanggapan odd response prioritas muncul dalam tanggapan-tanggapan oleh siswa, yang berumur enam tahun, dengan gangguan Asperger tersebut yang menunjuukkan mengalami masalah dalam memahami pertanyaan-pertanyaan (language comprehension disorder) dari guru-guru Tiji Homeschooling.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.24036/ell.v9i3.113394
Emora Emda Putra, H. Hamzah
This study aims to compare the differences and the similarities between Indonesia and English pop song lyrics in the level of ideational metafunction, The systemic functional linguistics theory by Halliday was applied to analyze this research. The method used in this research was a descriptive research method. The results of the study show that they share two similarities and six differences in the level of ideational metafunction. The conclusion obtained from the findings is that they are more different rather than similar and the differences in how they produces the song lyric affected by the differences in cultural background of the song which are represented through song lyrics to the different ways of producing structure of clauses and selection of words in the ideational level of metafunction.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.54513/joell.2022.9112
Inès Tebourski
This paper entitled “Poetry/ Music Interface in “London:” Towards a Multimodal Semiotic Reading” aims at examining the way William Blake’s London was “re- written” by being both adopted and adapted for an animated song in 2008. It seeks to show first, that the traditional readings of Blake’s Works which analysed his poetry and visual art separately have failed to articulate their ontological dimensions and did not come to terms with the energetics of Blake’s oeuvre that consists mainly of creating parallel universes. The paper, later, focuses on the interface between the words, the image and the rhythm in Alex Robinson’s “London” (2008) which suggested a new way of understanding Blake’s London and the world in general. The choice of the mode through which to re-introduce what was written is at the crux of the “re-writing” process and music is one of the most persuasive modes in what Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen refer to as “multimodal communication.” The multimodal discourse accentuates the importance of the different modes of communication including the word, sound, image, rhythm and colour, and stresses the importance of their added meanings; hence my choice of multimodal semiotic analysis for this paper.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.54513/joell.2022.9113
Dr. Norah Hadi Q. Alsaeed
Thomas Hardy is one of the poets of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of the twentieth century’s poetics. More than two thirds of his poems dealt with many topics that are not absent, as they fluctuate between frustration, pessimism, loss, pain, death and life. One of the poet's creations, the unidentified speaker used it to express his point of view about life, death, despair, and other beautiful negative topics. These works require a lot of research and study to decipher the cause of the despair and depression that clouded the works of the poet Thomas Hardy. Despite the pessimistic view of life in many of his poems, it is, from the critics' point of view, attractive in its presentation. Where his pessimism is not considered a disease, but rather a point of view worthy of study and analysis. This paper will shed light mainly on the seeds of the poet’s pessimism and how he presents the literary pessimism in a very attractive literary device.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.54513/joell.2022.9303
S. Bhat, Dr. Tushar Nair
In Indian society, the Dalits who are known earlier as untouchables or Shudras have been suffering in the name of Casteism. Even after more than 70 years of achieving Independence, the Dalits are bearing the brunt of torture and humiliation at the hand of upper caste people in many states in India. Dalits, being born in lower castes, are the worst target of embarrassment, dishonour, torture and discrimination. They have been inflicted violence physically or mentally in such a cruel manner that their whole identity is trampled underfoot. For centuries their life has been an epic of traumatic experiences. Their survival was possible at the behest of upper caste people who otherwise treated them like beasts. The wishes and dreams of the Dalits didn’t matter as they had no right to dream for a world of joy and progress. With the passage of time, people in the Dalit community realised the traumatic situation and sufferings of their brethren and decided to give voice through literature to the worst kind of sufferings they had to undergo. It is painfully surprising to think how Dalits were made to bear silently the humiliation and ill-treatment. If one comes across the excruciating accounts of pain and trauma poured down in Dalit literature, one can easily feel the immeasurable pain. Their afflictions are laid open barely before the readers just to make them feel how they will feel, in turn, if they happen to replace their position.
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