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Journal : Jurnal Review Pendidikan dan Pengajaran (JRPP)

The THE BIOPHILIC AND BIOCENTRIC DISCOURSE IN EDWARD ABBEY'S THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG Walida, Badilatil; Tirmidi, Tirmidi
Jurnal Review Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Volume 8 No. 2 Tahun 2025
Publisher : LPPM Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31004/jrpp.v8i2.47164

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This research aims to analyze ecologism discourse in Edward Abbey's novel through James Paul Gee's discourse analysis and Julia Kristeva's suprasegmental and intertextual approaches. The suprasegmental uses the psycholinguistic approach of Jan Renkema and Kristeva's intertextuality, provided by Gee's methodological tools. These approaches are used to know the novel's theme by Edward Abbey and to analyze how four characters from diverse backgrounds converge into their environmental commitments. Findings reveal that the theme was found to be a struggle to conserve the environment threatened by the dam's construction. Despite their different backgrounds, the four main characters share fundamental biophilic and biocentric traits that shape their ecological activism. Biophilic characteristics include protective love and territorial attachment, empathy toward nature and awe for natural wonders. In addition, their biocentric qualities manifest through voluntary simplicity, advocacy for nature's rights, and appreciation of natural aesthetics. Abbey's strategic narrative construction effectively communicates these ecological philosophies, ultimately influencing real-world environmental activism beyond the novel.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON DAM AND ITS ASPECT OF ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNFRIENDLINESS IN EDWARD ABBEY’S THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG Syarifah, Saniyatus; Tirmidi, Tirmidi
Jurnal Review Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Volume 8 No. 2 Tahun 2025
Publisher : LPPM Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31004/jrpp.v8i2.47169

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This study aims to analyze the main themes and perceptions of dams as unsustainable development in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Using qualitative discourse analysis, this research applies Kristeva’s conceptual framework dividing analysis into suprasegmental and intertextual dimensions. Suprasegmental analysis employs Mandler-Johnson's story grammar approach, while intertextual analysis applies Gee’s technique with McCully’s theoretical framework on large dam ecology and politics. Results reveal the novel's central theme as radical resistance to environmental damage from sustainability-ignoring development. Four environmental activists' transformation from peaceful advocacy to sabotage illustrates disappointment with institutional indifference. Intertextual analysis shows dams perceived as unsustainable development through two dimensions. The ecological dimension includes hydrological cycle disruptions, habitat fragmentation, and sedimentation problems. The social dimension encompasses forced displacement of indigenous peoples, unequal benefit distribution, and traditional livelihood destruction. This research contributes to literature-based language teaching methodology by integrating ecological awareness. Findings demonstrate consistent dam criticism across scientific and literary perspectives, viewing dams as development sacrificing long-term sustainability for short-term gains. Further research should explore other ecological literary works with similar approaches to strengthen the ecoliterature corpus and develop literature-based curriculum models integrating environmental awareness in English foreign language teaching.
THE DISCOURSE OF HUMAN – INSECT COEXISTENCE IN FRANK HERBERT’S THE GREEN BRAIN Kholishoh , Nur Diana; Tirmidi, Tirmidi
Jurnal Review Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Volume 8 No. 2 Tahun 2025
Publisher : LPPM Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31004/jrpp.v8i2.47705

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Frank Herbert’s The Green Brain challenges readers to rethink the human-nature relationship. This article examines how the novel’s narrative and discourse address ecological issues, using linguistic, narrative, and intertextual analysis to reveal non-human subjectivities as a counter-discourse. Using Kristeva’s discourse analysis accompanied by Mandler and Johnson’s story grammar and Gee’s intertextual analysis techniques, it highlights how ignorance of species benefits leads to neglect. The study finds that due to the lack of knowledge on other species’ benefits to humans, people tend to neglect the importance of other species’ existence. It also elaborates that overpopulation sometimes forces people to exterminate others’ existence.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON CIVIL CONFLICTIN AHMAD TOHARI’S DI KAKI BUKIT CIBALAK Tirmidi, Tirmidi; Putri, Faradila Arsylia; Khomariyah, Yanti; Indriyani, Kholifatul
Jurnal Review Pendidikan dan Pengajaran Vol. 7 No. 4 (2024): Special Issue Vol. 7 No. 4 Tahun 2024
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31004/jrpp.v7i4.40671

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Since the proclamation of its independence until today, Indonesia has experienced civil conflicts. There are hundreds of civil conflicts that have the potential to become civil wars with very painful impacts.  By taking lessons from the novel, it is hoped that the root of the problem that triggers conflict can be eliminated, and through the novel we can also learn the lesson that arbitrariness will definitely be met with resistance. Through a discourse analysis using an inter-textual analysis approach, this research is intended to reveal how a civil conflict occurs, in this case the conflict in the novel "Di KAKI BUKIT CIBALAK" by Ahmad Tohari, and how resistance by the community is raised and carried out to defeat arbitrariness that happened.