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An Analysis of Flouting Maxims in “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” Movie: Pragmatics Approach Melania, Putri; Mubarak, Zia Hisni
eScience Humanity Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2023): eScience Humanity Journal Volume 4 Number 1 November 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37296/esci.v4i1.60

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This qualitative research studied the types of flouting maxims that appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie. The initial idea of the research comes from the fact that movie often represents linguistic phenomenon including flouting maxims that is done with purpose or intention. In studying this phenomenon, this research approached the data source using Pragmatics and applies Grice’s theory of flouting maxim to help explaining the phenomenon. This article collects the relevant utterances using non-participation observation and analyzes them by using Pragmatic Identity Method (Sudaryanto, 2015). The research identified 15 utterances where 7 of them are flouting maxim of relation, 4 of them are flouting maxim of manner, 2 of them are flouting maxim of quality, and 2 of them are flouting maxim of quantity. Most of the flouting maxims are done for the purpose of warning, emphasizing, or letting the other know that their statement is ridiculous.
THE EXISTENCE OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND ITS TYPES USED IN “SEARCHING” MOVIE Maharani, Puja; Mubarak, Zia Hisni
eScience Humanity Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2023): eScience Humanity Journal Volume 3 Number 2 MEI 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37296/esci.v3i2.61

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Communication is very important in human relations. Fluency and understanding of communication can launch things to be achieved for a speaker. This research aimed to analyze the existence of illocutionary acts and the types of illocutionary acts used in a movie (Searle & Vanderveken, 1985). This research used a 2018 movie entitled Searching as a data source. This film told about the efforts of a father to find his missing daughter in various ways. The Searching movie taken as the data source because the movie is unique and different from the others. This research used qualitative descriptive method because the analysis carried out will be explained in a narrative text that contains words. The collecting data method in this research used non-participant technique. The approach used in this study is a pragmatic approach. The results found from this study indicate the existences of using illocutionary acts in the data source and the use of its types in the form of declarative, expressive, commissive, directive, and representative. The speech acts theory of illocutionary acts were implemented in every conversation found in the movie of “Searching”.
Constructing Scholarly Identity and Agency through Modality and Lexical Choice in Undergraduate Writing Mubarak, Zia Hisni; Tewarat, Sipri Hanus; Afriana, Afriana
eScience Humanity Journal Vol 5 No 2 (2025): eSience Humanity vol 5.2. May 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37296/esci.v5i2.268

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This study investigates how undergraduate students construct scholarly identity and express agency in academic writing through the use of modality and lexical choices. Drawing on a discourse analysis framework, the research analyzes a corpus of undergraduate essays from an English language education program, focusing on the strategic deployment of modal verbs, adverbs, evaluative language, and hedging devices. The analysis reveals that students vary in their ability to position themselves authoritatively in the academic discourse community. High-achieving students tend to use modality to balance assertion and caution, displaying nuanced control over epistemic stance and interpersonal engagement. In contrast, lower-achieving students often rely on assertive or vague expressions that limit dialogic interaction with potential readers. Additionally, lexical choices such as abstract nouns, nominalizations, and evaluative adjectives are found to be instrumental in shaping a credible scholarly persona. These findings underscore the importance of explicit instruction in linguistic features that construct academic voice and identity. The study contributes to the growing body of research on student writing by highlighting the role of language in mediating both personal agency and disciplinary alignment in academic discourse.