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THE LINGUISTIC AESTHETICS OF TRADITIONAL BUGIS BONE POETRY: A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS AND CULTURAL VALUE Harun, Muhammad; Halim, Nurfitriyah
THE ACADEMIC: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL Vol 10 No 2 (2025): The Academic: English Language Learning Journal
Publisher : Lembaga Jurnal FKIP Universitas Bosowa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52208/aellj.v10i2.1710

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This study examines how traditional Bugis verbal art, particularly materials circulating in Bone, generates aesthetic force through patterned language while simultaneously articulating ethical meaning. Focusing on two forms widely recognised in Bugis cultural practice pappaseng (advice or wisdom sayings) and elong (poetic song or verse), the study approaches these texts as objects of literary analysis within a stylistic framework. Using qualitative document analysis and close stylistic reading, six short excerpts are analysed, drawn from publicly available sources that include a Bone court dialogue, pappaseng formulas, a widely cited reso proverb, and two elong stanzas. Across the excerpts, recurrent stylistic devices include parallel question answer framing, triadic listing, rhythmic clause chaining, symbolic ‘fence’ (sappo) metaphors, and hyperbolic imagery. These patterned forms condense moral reasoning into memorable verbal structures, enabling values such as lempu’ (integrity), siri’ (honour/shame), and reso (persevering effort) to be articulated, recalled, and circulated in everyday interaction. As the corpus is documentary rather than field recorded, the interpretations advanced here remain text centred and open to further refinement through engagement with Bugis speakers and cultural practitioners.
GENDERED AND RACIALIZED LANGUAGE IN GRACE M. CHO’S TASTES LIKE WAR: A FEMINIST STYLISTIC ANALYSIS Mujaddidah, Husnul; Agus, Sitti Hasmah; Harun, Muhammad; Yudith, Madeline
THE ACADEMIC: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL Vol 10 No 2 (2025): The Academic: English Language Learning Journal
Publisher : Lembaga Jurnal FKIP Universitas Bosowa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52208/aellj.v10i2.1711

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This study investigates how gendered and racial meanings are constructed through word-level language choices in Grace M. Cho’s memoir Tastes Like War (2021) using a feminist stylistic approach. Drawing on Sara Mills’ theory of gendered representation and evaluative language, supported by insights from Robin Lakoff and Dale Spender, the researcher examines how naming practices, evaluative adjectives, and role descriptions position female characters within patriarchal and racialized discourses. The study employs a descriptive qualitative method based on close textual reading and lexical analysis. The primary data consist of words, phrases, and expressions referring to female characters, particularly Cho’s mother, while secondary data include feminist stylistic scholarship and related studies on memoir and gender. The findings show that Kongja is frequently identified through relational and ethnic labels, while evaluative adjectives and prescriptive expressions frame her within norms of motherhood, domesticity, and female vulnerability. Pathologizing and racialized terms further construct deviation from ideal femininity as abnormal or stigmatized. At the same time, the memoir strategically reuses patriarchal language with ironic distance, exposing and questioning the ideological judgments imposed on immigrant womanhood. The study concludes that feminist stylistics is an effective framework for revealing how memoir language both reproduces and critiques gendered and racialized constructions of women’s identities.Keywords: feminist stylistics, naming
MODERNISM AND YOUTH IDENTITY IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S THIS SIDE OF PARADISE Musfirahwaty, Auriza; Sakka, Wahyuni; Harun, Muhammad; Yudith, Madeline
THE ACADEMIC: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL Vol 10 No 2 (2025): The Academic: English Language Learning Journal
Publisher : Lembaga Jurnal FKIP Universitas Bosowa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52208/aellj.v10i2.1712

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The American youth in the twentieth century experienced the era of modernism which the world turn into modern and affected many ascpects of their lives, especially on their youth identity. The research aims at finding out how the modernism affected the American youth identity as reflected in the character’s performance throughout the story. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method with a sociology of literature approach. The data in this research were collected from the descriptions and utterances of the characters and narrator in the novel. The research reveals that the American youth identity in the twentieth century can be observed through their lifestyle, in which the youth already had become accustomed to smoking, drinking and party habits. All these habits continued even after the end of World War I, but there is a difference in the way they do it as the youth faced different situations. The popularity also became an important aspect for the youth at that time. The American values such as individualism and cooperation are also shown in their lives. Individualism value is shown when they believe in themselves and work harder to get what they want, while the cooperation appear through the support from their close relatives when they faced problems. Modernism has brought numerous advantages to humanity through various technological and social developments, but it has also significantly influenced economic life, leading money and business to become central concerns for most of Americans.