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Maria Olivia Christina Sianipar
Universitas HKBP Nommensen
Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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INDONESIAN LANGUAGE IS THE MOST LANGUAGE USED ON ADVERTISEMENTS IN MEDAN Maria Olivia Christina Sianipar
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 5, No 2 (2020): MELT December 2020
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.5.2.2020.186-200

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This research is discussing about the language that is used most in the names of advertisements on certain areas in Medan. In this era of globalization, many Indonesian people are already good in English, as English as a global language, so it is found some people use English in their activities. Many people use English for the names of their shops, restaurants, hotels, etc. as their advertisement to attract people to get their products. The writer is interested to know about the most language used in some certain areas in Medan. There are some purposes of this research. They are to get the certainty about the percent of Indonesian language usage on advertisements’ names; to get the certainty about the percent of English language usage on advertisements’ names; to get the certainty about the percent of both Indonesian language usage and English language usage on the same advertisements’ names. Here the writer found some results that there are advertisements that using Indonesian language, and some of them using English language and the rest are using both languages they are English language and Indonesian language. The writer is very happy for the result of this research that most of Medan people use Indonesian language for their advertisements.
An Analysis of Assertive Illocutionary Acts on Social Media Maria Olivia Christina Sianipar
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 7, No 1 (2022): MELT June 2022
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.7.1.2022.46-56

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This study aims to determine the use of assertive illocutionary act. The focus of this research is writing in the form of status that contains different topics in several social media today such as Instagram and Twitter. The datas are taken randomly from different accounts in Instagram and Twitter. This research is a qualitative descriptive study in which the data in this study were collected through documentation and note-taking techniques. The results of data analysis reveal that the use of assertive illocutionary act is widely available and used in social media such as Instagram and Twitter. There are three kinds of assertive illocutionary act that are found in this research they are reporting, stating/ telling, and suggesting. The use of assertive illocutionary act that appear the most is reporting. The second one that has many assertive illocutionary acts is stating/telling. The fewest assertive illocutionary acts are suggesting. In the usage of assertive illocutionary act, the meaning of the implicature appeared, among others, expressed opinions, express thoughts, express wishes, etc. There is always interesting to read Instagram and Twitter from different accounts and get different good things or aspects on different kinds of assertive illocutionary acts.
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