This research purpose is to examine how many portions of history are shown through the movie entitled Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg using New Historicism and Semiotic theory. The aim of the study are : (1) to find the historical background described in the selected movie, and (2) to find the relevance of the historical background portrayed in the selected movie to the real his…
This research discusses the topic of Kevin Katchadourian’s archetype, as the main character in the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin written by Lionel Shriver. Kevin is described as a teenager with psychopath disorder who committed school massacre. The objective of this research is to analyze the persona and shadow archetypes of Kevin. This research uses character and characterization theory …
Language is a means of communication. People communicate using their languages. Language is used to convey the message. English is the main international lingua franca which is used almost all over the world. In Anak Terang course, there are students who have difficulties in pronouncing English sounds. The aims of this study are to find out which consonants and vowels are incorrectly pronounced…
This study was mainly intended to analyze speech functions found in Donald Trump speeches about coronavirus. The objectives of the study are to find speech functions are used by Donald Trump in his speeches about coronavirus and to describe the context of speech functions that used by Donald Trump in his speeches about coronavirus. This study uses descriptive qualitative approach. It is categor…
This is a sociolinguistic study that focuses on the speech styles used by a Pastor Brian Houston in delivering the sermon in a Public Service and Youth Service at Hillsong church. In order to know the speech style used by the Pastor, this writer chooses the main theory of speech style as proposed By Joos (1967) based on degree of formality. The methodology that the researcher used to analyze th…
The study entitled “Code switching used by Travel Vlogger “Arief Muhammad” in Travel Videos” aims to investigate the types, the function of code switching and the viewers’ attitude toward the use of code switching. This research use questionnaire with open-ended questions. Some main theories were used to analyze the data, namely Poplack’s theory (1980) to analyze the types of code s…
Social media nowadays have become a part of people‟s everyday lives. Its growth makes the great involvement of marketing business activities such as promoting brands/product which use Instagram as their social media platform. For many, the problem of using Instagram is about confusion of creating interesting caption to attract follower‟s attention and even their purchase intention. Therefor…
The problem of English pronunciation happens to the college students who come from Mentawai. They study at Widya Kartika University, catholic Widya Mandala University and PGRI Adi Buana University. The influences of Mentawai dialect has become the problem to Mentawai students when they communicate to each other using English language. This study focused on English consonants and vowels sounds t…