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An Analysis of Metaphor in the Lyrics of Selected Minangkabaunese Songs Deru Lukmana; Rusdi Noor Rosa; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (325.912 KB) | DOI: 10.24036/ell.v8i3.105761

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Metaphor is two things of an implicit comparison which two unlike objects are compared with factual, the first is original meaning and the second is describing of metaphor. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of metaphor using the theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The researcher used descriptive method. The data were collected by downloading Minangkabaunese songs based on themes which fail in love or romance theme and rantau theme, listening them repeatedly, identifying and putting them into table. The data were also analyzed by classifying the data, analyzing the data, deciding the research findings, and drawing the conclusion. The result in this research there are 23 the data found in Minangkabaunese songs whose theme is fail in love or romance: structural (34,78%), orientational (39,13%), ontological (26,09%) and 25 the data found in Minangkabaunese songs whose theme is rantau: structural (56%), orientational (36%), ontological (8%). Therefore, a number of selected Minangkabaunese songs were dominated by both structural and orientational metaphor.
Critical Discourse Analysis of Propaganda Created by Mirror.co.uk and Thedailystar.net for Concerning Islamophobia Pahuse Wanda; Hamzah Hamzah; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 9, No 1 (2020)
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This research investigates the propaganda techniques used by the online news author concerning Islamophobia. This study used lexical choices by Fairlough’s textual analysis and the aim of this study is to identify the words including verb, noun, adverb and the propaganda techniques that used by the news author to describe Islam and Muslims in their news articles. Types of research used in this study are descriptive qualitative research. The results of this study are from mirror.co.uk found that the author used 72 words including verb, noun, and adverb for describing Muslims. Meanwhile, thedailystar.net found that the author used 83 words with negative meaning for describing Islam. From the analysis of the lexical choice, the top frequencies used by the two media are terrorists, extremists, radicals and militants. From the analysis of propaganda techniques, found that both media used name-calling, card stacking, and testimonial propaganda techniques. The two media used name-calling techniques in total 155 words, card stacking in total 31 sentences, and 11 sentences are testimonial propaganda techniques. Both media also used the words which have negative connotation, and images. In such manner, it is proposed that the world of Islam be aware of this false opinion used negative propaganda against Islam and take fitting and convenient measures with the goal that they could present the genuine idea of this holy religion to the world and diminish the quantity of Islamophobic assaults on Muslim people group all through the world.
AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN VIEWS (OPINION COLUMN) OF ONLINE PADANG EKSPRES Nurhaida Nurhaida; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 6, No 1 (2017): Serie A
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Language is a media of communication that has an important role in human life. The background of this research because of interesting issues in terms of figurative languages that contained in Online Padang Ekspres Newspaper. The use of these figurative languages sometimes makes the reader difficult to know the meaning of the sentence, because the form of figurative languages cannot be known the meaning literally. This paper aims to identify the type and meaning of figurative language used by the author in Online Padang Ekspres Newspaper in March until May 2016 editions. The paper focuses on the types of figurative language in Opinion Column of Online Padang Ekspres Newspaper, because the writer finds many sentences in form of figurative language in that column. The writer collected data by downloading opinion column of online Padang Ekspres Newspaper. In analyzing the data, the writer groups the data into specific types based on the theory Keraf (2009). Then the writer translated it in English and discussed based on the theory. From the results of this study found as many as 100 words / phrases that categorized into figurative languages. From 100 data, found metaphor as many as 66, 25 phrase belongs to simile, and 9 pieces personification. From these results we conclude that the style of the dominant language used in newspapers Padang Express Online is metaphor and most dominant meaning is positive meaning.
EUPHEMISM FOUND IN CELEBRITY NEWS PUBLISHED IN PEOPLE.COM WEBSITE Deka Novianti; Hermawati Syarif; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2018)
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Euphemism is one of language phenomena that exists in society in order to keep the relationship in good harmony. This research aims to describe forms and functions of euphemism that are found in Celebrity News published in people.com website. This research is descriptive qualitative based on phenomena of euphemism in written language. Data of this research are words, phrases and sentences that contain euphemistic expression found in Celebrity News during February 2017.The result of the research shows that there are four forms and four functions of euphemism. The form of euphemism that is mostly found is semantic change, especially metaphorical transfer. The researcher also found various functions of euphemism. The function of euphemism that is mostly found is avoiding taboo.
Stepping up Effort to Enlightenment in the Novel Graceland (2004) by Chris Abani Ilma Fitriani; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24036/ell.v8i4.106746

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This thesis is the analysis of a novel which written by Chris Abani entitled Graceland (2004). It explores the issue of step up efforts to enlightenment which reflected by the main character. It is also intended to find out the contribution of fictional devices such as character, plot (conflict), and setting in revealing the issue of efforts to enlightenment. This analysis is related to the concept of life instinct which self-awareness by Sigmund Freud that is supported by the text-based and context-based interpretation. The result of this analysis shows about the way the main character effort to enlightenment in dealing with any situation in his life by building self-awareness, gaining thinking skill and having vocational skill.  
PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN NEWS FOUND IN ONLINE AL-JAZEERA AND FOX NEWS Abni Sintia Hasta; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2018)
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Presupposition as property of language is used to build and influence audience’s opinion by the language users. In the news, presupposition triggers is a sign to trigger the use of presupposition. The purpose of this study is to analyze the use of presupposition triggers in Israeli-Palestinian news in the two online news; Al-Jazeera and Fox news. This research used the descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research is the Israeli-Palestinian news in two online Al-Jazeera and Fox news. The news that is analyzed are two news from Al-Jazeera and one news from Fox news. This data were analyzed based on Khaleel’s theory (2010) about presupposition triggers. The results of analysis showed that in Al-Jazeera, the highest occurrence is existential (definite description) that occurred 28 times (43%), and 20 times (40%) in Fox news. In addition both Al-Jazeera and Fox news used change of state verb in lexical, and adverbial clause in structural as the dominant types. In contrast, the difference on the two online news is the use of verb of judging.
THE ANXIETY OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IN PLAY SCRIPT THE HUMANS (2015) BY STEPHEN KARAM Novrianti Sri Padilla; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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    This thesis is the analysis of a play script written by Stephan Karam entitled The Humans (2015). It explores the issue of the Anxiety of American Middle Class reflected by the protagonist Erick Blake as an representation of American middle class. It is also intended to find out the contribution of fictional devices such as character, stage direction and setting in revealing the issue of the Anxiety of American middle class. This analysis is related to the concept of Anxiety which developed by Sigmund Freud (1949) that is supported by the text –based and context-based interpretation. The result of the analysis from the play script The Humans (2015) shows about the anxiety of American middle class that experienced by protagonist can be seen through causes and symptoms of anxiety. 
Cold-Blooded Killer in Novel Child 44 By Tom Rob Smith (2008) Salsa Dila Aninda; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 10, No 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24036/ell.v10i1.111380

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Tujuan analisa ini adalah untuk mengungkapkan isu pembunuh berdrah dingin pada novel Child 44 karya Tom Rob Smith. Permasalah pada analisa ini adalah untuk mengetahui sejauh mana novel tersebut mengungkapkan kejahatan-kejahatan pemerintah Rusia dalam menjalankan pemeritahan. Analisa ini menggunakan implied author untuk mengeluarkan bukti-bukti yang besangkutan dengan isu pembunuh berdarah dingin. Analisa ini menggunakan konsep dekolonisasi oleh Frantz Fanon. Analisa ini dilakukan berdasarkan interpretasi teks dan interpretasi berbasis konteks. Hasil dari analisa ini adalah kejahatan-kejahatan yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah Rusia untuk mempertahankan kekuasaannya. kejahatan-kejahatan ini diperbuat dalam dua cara: pengaturan situasi dan pemberlakukan kekuasaan.
THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE DISORDER OF AN AUTISTIC SAVANT PORTRAYED IN LEVINSON’S RAIN MAN FILM (1988) Resti Levia; Jufrizal Jufrizal; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 8, No 1 (2019)
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ABSTRACT Autistic savant as one of the language disorders can be found in daily life and it also can be portrayed in literary works and films. An autistic savant is a person with autism who has the limitation in most social functions but has cognitive abilities, such as possessing some outstanding memories and computational skills. This research aims to find out the types of language disorder and to find out the dominant type of language disorders found in autistic savant portrayed in Levinson’s Rain Man film. This research used a descriptive method. The data used in this research were the utterances of an autistic savant. The result of this research shows that the type of expressive language disorder was obtained with the occurrence percentage of 67.7% while the receptive language disorder type was obtained by the occurrence percentage of 32.3%. From this percentage, it can be seen that the most dominant type of language disorders experienced by autistic savant in Rain Man film is expressive language disorder. It means the autistic savant as an adult person also has difficulty in expressing or producing language. Key words: language disorder, autistic savant, expressive language disorder, receptive language disorder
An Analysis of Abbreviation in Twitter Status of Hollywood Pop Singers Indah Dwi Pratiwi; Leni Marlina
English Language and Literature Vol 9, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (164.491 KB) | DOI: 10.24036/ell.v9i1.108184

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Abbreviation is the process of cutting one word, some parts of the word and the combination of words into words in the new form. Abbreviation is used by all kinds of people who share situations of interests and it is often used in informal situation. The use of abbreviation is not only found in daily conversation, discussion, or speech, but also found in online interaction in social media. This study aims to find out the types and the meaning of abbreviation words and types internet language in Twitter used by Hollywood pop singers. This research used Schendl (2001) and Weakly (2006) theories about five types of abbreviation words. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The data were taken from tweets that have been posted by Hollywood pop singers on June 2019. The result showed that from 47 data that have been collected, there were four types out of abbreviation that have been found from five types of Schendl an Weakly abbreviations. They are clipping (14,9%), initialism (34,0%), blend (10,6%), contraction (40,4%) and acronym is not found from the data. From the finding it can be concluded that the type of abbreviation which is dominantly used by the singers in Twitter is contraction.