This research analyzes two statements of the problems. The first one is the analysis of the similarities between America in the late of 20th century and America in the beginning of 21st century. The second one is the analysis the concept of peace in three Martin Luther King’s speeches. Traditional historicist theory is applied to answer the first statement of the problem. The theory is fit to…
This is a research on rhetorical proofs in inaugural speech of United States presidents and first statement speech of United Kingdom prime ministers. Both of the countries have different government systems which are democracy and monarchy. The objective of this thesis are to find out the rhetorical proofs used in the last three inaugural speech of United States presidents and first statement sp…
This is a research of Afro-American women’s efforts in gaining equality through African-American music in early 20th - early 21st century. As African-American women, they have to deal not only with sexism but also racism. The objectives of this study are to find out the lyrics meaning and African-American feminist issues represented by the meanings of the lyrics. This research analyzes two st…
Culture and history have a strong bond and complete each other. Culture and history have a very broad scope dealing with social issues which happened in a certain period. One of the social issues is women issues that become the focus of this thesis. Women issues which settled in America are vary in aspects. Therefore, the portrayal of women issues in America are only limited during nineteenth t…
In this research the object uses Asian Talk Show and American Talkshow, those are A Date with Lu Yu from China and Steve Harvey Morning Show from United States of America. The purpose of this study is find out the differences politeness strategies used by Asian and American. To find the differences this research uses politeness strategy theory by Brown and Levinson. Politeness hold important pl…
Language Function is one of the most important and significant medium that is used among social life. It is mostly used by people in communication and do interaction in their daily social life. Nowadays, Women are no longer as second class under men but many of them can be public figure to show that they are equal with man even they can give more value to the world like Miss World and Miss Univ…
This is a research about specific adjective formation in English. Grammar itself is a study of language according to its rule or formula. In relation to the problem formulated in this study are : (1) How are the form adjectives in English. (2) How to use adjectives in English. The objectives of this study are to use the formation adjective and compound adjectives for better grammar in English. …
The topic of this study is about talk show called Oprah Show. Oprah Show is one of the most popular talk show in America. This study is aimed to find out the communication style used by Oprah winfrey in Oprah Show to reveal the privacy of the guests about LGBT and the effect of communication style used by Oprah to the guests. This research use Hofnerr (2005) theory about communication style and…
The topic of this study is about women’s gossip in twitter. Twitter is a free social media. This study formulates the problems: what kinds of women’s gossip there are used in twitter and what linguistic features of women’s in twitter. This methodology in the research are consist of the method that is used by writer is qualitative method, because it is an appropriate approach for his study…
Stand Up Comedy is one of popular entertainment in the world. Performing Stand Up Comedy is quite challenging. It is successful, people will laugh and if it is unsuccessful, the performance becomes bored. In Indonesia, none of Stand Up Comedians This study is aimed to find out the differences between male and female linguistic features used by successful American Stand Up Comedians and the impr…