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A Stylistic Investigation: Verbal Parallelism in Reverend Budde’s 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration Prayer Service Sermon Victoria Sielke Laurent Sopacuaperu, Ludwina; Inda Nur Abida, Fithriyah; Widyastuti, Widyastuti; Purwaning Hartanti, Lina
ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): JUNE
Publisher : Hasanuddin University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v8i2.44992

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Verbal parallelism is a stylistic device frequently employed in public and religious discourse to enhance rhythm, emphasis, and memorability. This study investigates the use of verbal parallelism in Reverend Mariann Budde’s sermon delivered at the 2025 United States presidential inauguration prayer service. The research aims to explore how verbal parallelism functions stylistically in the sermon and how it contributes to highlighting key messages. A qualitative research design was employed, using documentation and analysis of the sermon transcript as the primary data source. The analysis identified eight types of verbal parallelism based on Leech’s (1969) classification. The findings revealed that seven types verbal parallelism was deliberately and systematically used throughout the sermon. Anaphora was found to be the most frequently used type, followed by homoioteleuton, epistrophe, symploce, polyptoton, anadiplosis, and antistrophe. On the whole, this study confirms that verbal parallelism serves as an effective stylistic strategy in public and religious discourse.
Language Style Used on the Caption of @ecobites.official Instagram Account: A Stylistic Study Wulan Septiani, Putri; Purwaning Hartanti, Lina
ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): MARCH
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The language style used in captions is one of the advertising strategies to attract audiences. Captions, as a linguistic aspect, play an important role in supporting the effectiveness of advertising on Instagram. Through using this language style, Ecobites, as an eco-friendly product can create advertisements that can spread awareness about the importance of using eco-friendly products. This aims to persuade the audience to choose ECOBITES. Therefore, examining Instagram captions as advertising tool is worth to studying. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify the types of the language style used in the Instagram captions of the @ecobites.official account. The theory that was used in this study is Keraf’s (2007) theory. This study uses qualitative method, with documentation technique to collect the data. The subjects are 15 captions from the @ecobites.official Instagram account. The results show that @ecobites.official Instagram captions used varied language styles, they are 1) Based on the word choice, @ecobites.offficial Instagram captions were dominated by conversational language style; 2) @ecobites.official Instagram captions were dominated by intermediate language style when viewed based on tone; 3) Based on the sentence structure, Ecobites’ Instagram captions were dominated by climax and repetition language style; and 4) Language style based on the direct and indirect meaning that used in Ecobites’ Instagram captions were dominated by rhetorical language style.