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Journal : Jurnal Gramatika

SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS ON LEXICAL METAPHOR USED IN SYLVIA PLATH’S POEMS (ANALISIS LINGUISTIK FUNGSIONAL SISTEMIK PADA PENGGUNAAN METAFORA LEKSIKAL DALAM PUISI-PUISI SYLVIA PLATH) Faradika, Vicha; Sawirman, Sawirman; Revita, Ike
Jurnal Gramatika Vol 5, No 1 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas PGRI Sumatera Barat

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (871.41 KB) | DOI: 10.22202/jg.2019.v5i1.3193

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This article contains a study of lexical metaphors used in the selected poems of Sylvia Plath entitled “Full Fathom Five”, “The Colossus”, “I am Vertical”, “Ariel”, “Lady Lazarus” and “Edge” which focused on representation of sequence changes of death ideas in the poems. This research is conducted by using systemic functional linguistics theory, especially lexical metaphor by Halliday. It is used to look at the data classification of lexical metaphors. As a qualitative descriptive research, it is assisted by using descriptive statisticin doing the analysis. It aims to find out several important formulas such as mean, modus and percentage from the occurence of lexical metaphor. The result of the analysis shows that there are lexical metaphor with noun-noun concept 50.9%, then the concept of noun-verb 38.6% and noun-adjective 10.5%. The dominance of lexical metaphor occurence with noun-noun concept is the representation of death ideas changes in each poem, including death as unacceptable thing, an unavoidable choice, gate for a rebirth and final solution to all life's problems
COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS (TINDAK TUTUR KOMISIF DI DALAM IKLAN-IKLAN KOMERSIL) Syafitri, Widdya; Sawirman, Sawirman; Usman, Fajri
Jurnal Gramatika Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas PGRI Sumatera Barat

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Advertisement is a medium used to support an activity or a business. Through advertisement, the activity can spread out to the public or people. The study of advertisement can be associated to the field of pragmatics because  it contains several speech acts used by the producer or the content creator to the target of the advertisements itself, which one of them is commissive speech act. In relation to its purpose that is to introduce or to promote a product, either things or services, the commissive speech act is an effective way to use to attract the public’s attention. This research is aimed at identifying and explaining the functions and the strategies of the commissive speech acts. The source of data is the commercial advertisements of household appliances and health products on MNC Shop in December 2018. The data are collected by using observational method with recording and writing technique and analyzed by using pragmatic identity method. The result of the research shows that the commissive speech acts in the commercial advertisements of MNC Shop comprise promising, giving a guarantee, making a bet, and convincing. Meanwhile, the strategies used are direct utterance, literal direct utterance, and literal indirect utterance.