Rahmadsyah Rangkuti
University of Sumatera Utara

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An Acoustic Analysis of Chinese Indonesian Students in Pronouncing English Vowels: A Praat Study Teguh Perdana Damanik; Rahmadsyah Rangkuti; Rohani Ganie
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 8(1), May 2023
Publisher : Pusat Pelatihan, Riset, dan Pembelajaran Bahasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21462/ijefl.v8i1.567

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This research aims to describe the errors made by Chinese-Indonesian students of the English Department of the University of Sumatera Utara in pronouncing English vowels; to discuss the reason for those errors this research uses Richard’s theory on causes of errors; and to overcome those errors using the phonetics transcription method and repetition drills. This research uses the Praat software to analyze the phonemes through the samples’ voice recordings. This research is qualitative and quantitative research. The data of this research are voice recordings of the samples and native speakers and the questionnaire answers of the samples. It is found that the Chinese-Indonesian students of the English Department who have passed the phonology subject still produce errors in pronouncing English vowels. It is concluded that these errors are found due to the effect of their mother tongues, namely Hokkien-Indonesian. The errors are also caused by the samples’ intralingual and developmental errors. In order to overcome those errors, this research employed the phonetic transcriptions method and repetition drills and found that the methods improve the overall values of selected English vowel phonemes.
Hate Speech Used by Haters of Lady Gaga on Social Media Indah Permata Sari Siahaan; Rahmadsyah Rangkuti; Rohani Ganie
Nusa: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra Vol 14, No 4: November 2019
Publisher : Program Studi Sastra Indonesia, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Diponegoro

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This research investigates impolite utterances by haters of Lady Gaga on her instagram comments through pragmatic study. The object is to find out the types and functions of impoliteness strategies. This research was conducted by descriptive qualitative design. The data were words, phrases and clauses. The sources of data were comments of Lady Gaga haters in a photo which posted on January 10th 2019 on her instagram account. The findings of the study show that: (1) There are four types of impoliteness strategies found on comments of Lady Gaga’s instagram namely positive impoliteness, bald on record impoliteness, negative impoliteness, and sarcasm. Positive and negative impoliteness are the high percentage strategies while sarcasm is the lowest frequency strategy to occur in this research. (2) There are three functions of impoliteness strategies are used by haters of Lady Gaga on her instagram comments. They are entertaining impoliteness, affective impoliteness, and coercive impoliteness.