Yunitari Mustikawati
Universitas Negeri Makassar

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES IN BTS SONGS LYRIC’S Nurwahida Nurwahida; Yunitari Mustikawati
ELITERATE : Journal of English Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol 2, No 3, Dec (2022): ELITERATE: Journal of English Linguistics and Literature Studies
Publisher : Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar

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Figurative language was a way of expressing feelings, thoughts, and ideas. The song lyrics analyzed by the researcher were: Louder than Bombs, Spring Day, Butter, Dynamite, 00:00 (zero o'clock), Fake Love, and Magic Shop. Figurative language in this study used the theory of X.J Kennedy and message theory by several experts and sources. This researcher used the descriptive qualitative method. Lyrics is an expression that songwriter feels to describe an object or experience. In this study, researcher found 11 kinds of figurative language in BTS song lyrics, namely: personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, paradox, irony, metonymy, synecdoche, symbol, allusion, and repetition. The most dominant figurative language is simile. Thus, researcher found 22 messages through figurative language in BTS songs, in the Louder than Bombs song messages is everyone is good at hiding sadness, In the Spring Day song messages is expectations and reality. In the Butter song messages, is keep trying to get you want, The Dynamite song messages is fun has no limit. In the 00:00 (Zero O'clock) song messages is don’t stop praying for happiness. In the Fake Love song messages is loving ourselves is much more fun, In the Magic Shop song messages is never give up on our own life.
WOMEN’S LANGUAGE FEATURES OF THE MAIN FEMALE CHARACTER IN HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Aisyah Aulia Tahir; Murni Mahmud; Yunitari Mustikawati
ELITERATE : Journal of English Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol 2, No 1, April (2022): ELITERATE: Journal of English Linguistics and Literature Studies
Publisher : Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar

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This research aims to find out the women’s language features that used by the main female character in “To Kill a Mockingbird Novel 1960” using Lakoff’s theory (1975) Women’s Language theory. The research will also describe how the main female character expressed every sentence that has women’s language features with stylisctic analysis and show the situation in the sentence with Hyme’s (1974) Speaking theory. The descriptive analytics approach was applied in this research to characterize the aspects and qualities of the subject. The research findings show that lexical hedges or fillers, tag question, rising intonation on declaratives, empty adjective, emphatic emphasis, superpolite form, hypercorrect grammar, avoidance of powerful swear words, and intensifier are nine features of women's language used by the main female character. The researcher also finds how the main female character expressed her sentences with linguistic deviation and literary analysis. And the researcher discovers 8 elements of situation that happened in the conversation, namely setting, participant, ends (goal), act sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms of interaction, and genre. The research was able to identify the women's language features and define how they are communicated as well as the situation in the conversation as a conclusion.
LANGUAGE STYLE AT ADVERTISEMENT IN CNN Ananda Dwi Putri Caesary; La Sunra; Yunitari Mustikawati
Journal of English Literature and Linguistic Studies Vol 1, No 2, Sept (2022): Journal of English Literature and Linguistics Studies
Publisher : Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar

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Language is very important in conveying the right information with the aim of influencing the individual. Advertising language shows more persuasive, attracts people's attention, and is creative. More attractive and creative advertising can influence more people to try these advertisements. This study focused on the category of language style and how the use of advertising formula in conveying message of the advertisement on CNN. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the types of language style in advertisement on CNN and to explore how the use of advertising formulas convey messages in advertisement on CNN to viewers. In conducting this research, the researcher used qualitative research and descriptive methods. The advertisements were taken randomly from as many as 13 advertisements from three videos on commercial breaks channel. The results of this study show that there were 4 categories of language style used in advertisements on CNN, namely the morphological style, syntactical style, rhetorical style, and sloganized style. Advertisement on CNN uses a different type of language style. In terms of morphological category, advertisement on CNN uses simple and formal language, misspelling or coinage, loanword, the use of verb, and the use of adjectives. In terms of syntactical category, advertisement on CNN uses interrogative sentences and imperative sentence. In terms of rhetorical category, advertisement on CNN uses simile, repetition, and rhyming. In terms of sloganized category, advertisement on CNN use slogan and taglines. Furthermore, there were 6 advertising formulas used in advertisement, namely, soft sell, slice of life, comparison, straightforward, demonstration, and spokesperson.
Students’ Perception of Cultural Literacy Development in Higher Education Awaludin Rizal; Syarifuddin Dollah; Amirullah Abduh; Baso Jabu; Muhammad Basri; Yunitari Mustikawati; Abdurrahman Hi. Usman
IJORER : International Journal of Recent Educational Research Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024): May
Publisher : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Makassar

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Objective: This study investigated the EFL students' perceptions of cultural literacy development in higher education. Method: The research design was an ethnographic study. The study was conducted in two private and state universities in Indonesia. The subjects were students from the English education department at two universities. The researcher chose four students from each university as research subjects who know and understand more about cultural literacy development. The technique for analyzing data in the ethnographic study was descriptive labels, selecting, identifying, generalizing, and noting. Result: This study's findings showed that in higher education, two students have a high perception, one has a moderate, and the last one has a low perception of cultural literacy development in the academic context. Each student’s category generally has a different impact on the development of their cultural literacy in the academic context. Novelty: This study produces the Makugawene (harmonic) Cultural Literacy model to develop EFL students' cultural literacy in higher education.