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Journal of Language and Literature
ISSN : 14105691     EISSN : 25805878     DOI : https://doi.org/10.24071/joll
Journal of Language and Literature presents articles on the study of language and literature. Appropriate topics include studies on language, translation, and literary texts. To be considered for publication, articles must be in English.
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Divine Parody: Ridiculing America’s Spiritual Crisis in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods Ahmad Wildan Rizaq; Eka Nurcahyani
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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One of the reasons for modern man's mental disorders is a spiritual crisis. In American Gods, Neil Gaiman ridicules this condition by reviving religious, folklore, and mythological entities into new contexts. These entities, however, are simplified as merely intertextual references by most studies. In fact, the new contexts are pragmatically intended to parody American modernity in leading modern man to a spiritual crisis. This research, thus, aims to be a descriptive-analytical study that not only interprets such references through intertextual analysis but also uses pragmatic analysis to examine how the novel parodically portrays modern man's spiritual journey. Deploying Linda Hutcheon's Interpretation of Parody, the Intertextual analysis results that these mythological characters are resituated to represent marginal communities, like ex-convicts, fugitives, drifters, gangsters, immigrants, homeless, laborers, prostitutes, and relocators. While applying Jung's interpretation of the relationship between mythological archetypes and psychological traits, the pragmatic analysis suggests that the hero archetype has been reimagined to caricature modern man's spiritual journey in reconciling his conscious desire with unconscious competencies that resulting disorders in his mental. The factors that influence the hero's mental stability are manifested through the trickster characters in deceiving the hero's consciousness with secular realities, while the sage characters reinforce the hero's unconsciousness through some spiritual journeys.
Trauma, Love, and Identity Development in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban You-shuan Shiong; Ya-huei Wang
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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Persons in the stage of adolescence are eager to know who they are. They are curious about their unique characteristics and identities and how they can start to bring about the self-realization that provides a gateway to adulthood by exploring those characteristics and identities. In this process of self-exploration, adolescents who receive encouragement as they search for an authentic identity, though they sometimes have conflicts with parents and others, are likely to develop a secure ego-identity and a strong sense of independence and self-control. By contrast, adolescents who fail to receive encouragement during the process of identity exploration, for whatever reason, may remain unsure about who they are, and hence feel insecure and confused about themselves as well as their future.  The present study uses the fictional character Harry Potter to explore these issues in greater depth, mainly focusing on his early adolescent years—that is, when he is 11-13 years old. The study demonstrates that Harry Potter can manage to resolve conflicting ideas and thereby lay the foundations for a healthy ego-identity despite difficult circumstances. The study uses Erikson’s and other psychologists’ understanding of the importance of self-exploration in adolescence as an interpretive lens to examine the dynamics of trauma, love, and self-realization in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. More specifically, it considers how family love (or the lack thereof), mentorship, and friendship in adolescence impact Harry’s mental and physical behaviors and influence the development of his identity. 
Thematic and Rhematic Progression in Scientific Writing: A Pilot Study Alvin Ping Leong
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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The Hallidayan Theme-Rheme framework is commonly used to account for the message structure of language. Much has been done to investigate the message structure of different text types using the Hallidayan framework and Daneš’s notion of thematic progression (TP). Similar studies targeting scientific research articles, however, are few, and the Rhemes in these studies are almost always sidelined. Diagrams capturing the development patterns of Themes and Rhemes at the whole-text level are also lacking. To address these gaps, this study compared the TP and rhematic progression (RP) patterns of 50 scientific research articles, adopting both a diagrammatic and quantitative approach. The quantification of TP and RP was based on the thematic-density index (TDI) and rhematic-density index (RDI), respectively. The results revealed that TDI was greater than RDI at all levels of the text. The TP and RP patterns were also different and distinct. Whereas the TP pattern comprised a simple-linear progression in the introduction section followed by a constant development in the rest of the article, the RP pattern was generally simple-linear in its shape. The observed TP and RP patterns capture not merely the message structure of scientific writing, but its communicative function. Further work involving more varied scientific texts is recommended to investigate whether these patterns are robust across disciplines.
Tales of Healers and Doctors: Enlighted Pedagogy and Modernization in Cuban Costumbrismo Miguel Angel Pillado
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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The aesthetic movement known as costumbrismo burst during the 19th in Spain and Latin America, and it did so into various modes of artistic expression such as literature, painting, and lithography. In all cases, it aimed at reflecting on the way of life in a given society e.g. its folklore, its institutions, its mannerisms, its social types, etc. The present article delves into Cuban costumbrismo to expose the way in which local writers akin to this aesthetic movement exhibit the local population in correspondence with an ongoing and much desired process of modernization. Specifically, it examines four cuadros de costumbres (sketches of manners of costumbrista nature) that focus on two historically antagonistic social types in Cuba: the médico (the doctor) and the vieja curandera (the old female healer). It demonstrates that the representations of these figures do not only synthesize—at best—the way in which Cuban costumbrista authors managed a process of social and historical change brought about by the tension between local traditions and the emergence of modern scientific discourses as civilizing measures. In doing so, it also reveals the intentions of these authors to legitimize the place of literature in a modernizing world where scientific discourses were also gradually becoming the only authorized language for studying and analysing both the individual and the social body. 
The Effects of Colonialism toward the Timorese as depicted in Nesi’s Orang-Orang Oetimu Catharina Brameswari; Tatang Iskarna; Monica Angela Nadine Titaley
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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This research scrutinizes the effects of colonialism toward the Timorese in Oetimu as depicted in the novel of Orang-Orang Oetimu by Felix K. Nesi. From the perspective of postcolonial criticism, the combination of the invasion of the Portuguese, Japanese, and Indonesian in East Timor leaves changes in social structure and relations among the Timorese. This study aims to unveil from postcolonial view, especially Said, Gandhi, Foulcer and Day, the destructive cultural and social effect, clash of local parties, and hidden colonial power which still exists in the Timorese society. Colonialism in East Timor operated by Portuguese, Japan, and Indonesia brought about physical, social, and cultural conflicts. Portuguese colonialism impacted on the socio-political friction among Timorese and destructive vanishing of their culture. Japanese colonialism left trauma amongst them as physical oppression was often used to have domination over the people. Indonesian invasion also resulted in horizontal conflicts amongst the Timorese. Violence and corrupt culture became new perspective in solving the problems. Presenting the colonial conflicts and destructive cultural effects, the novel voices postcolonial discourse that the effect of colonialism can last long and its ideology of binary opposition and cultural justification of domination in the name of civilization can be reproduced.
US Police Department’s Representation in The New York Times Article “George Floyd’s Brother Pleads with Congress: ‘Make it Stop’”: A Critical Discourse Analysis Sherine Gracia Yudhi; Trisnowati Tanto
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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The study aims to examine the representation of the US Police Department in a foreign media news article, The New York Times, entitled “George Floyd’s Brother Pleads with Congress: ‘Make it Stop’”. The text itself discusses an incident of brutality and systemic racism involving the US Minneapolis police officers towards George Floyd, an African-American, which leads to his death. This incident can be considered to be one of the biggest news that attracts the most attention, reaction, and action all over the world in 2020.  This research uses Critical Discourse Analysis proposed by Teun A. van Dijk, focusing only on the micro-level analysis: macrostructure, microstructure, superstructure. There are four linguistics tools applied in the microstructure, which are rhetorical question, lexicalization, metaphor, and implication. The qualitative descriptive method is the research method used. Since the data are collected by searching for information in the Internet and other printed references, this research is also categorized into a library research for the fact that it has a wide scope of sources, including the academic journal, newspapers, magazine, e-books, relevant web resources, and various multimedia.  The result shows that through these three aspects of the microstructure analysis, the author portrays a negative representation of the US Police Department. 
Gender Differences in Influencer Advertisements on Instagram: A Multimodal Perspective Anderson Hidarto; Aryani Andrieza
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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Congruent with the rapid development of internet users worldwide, social media advertising has been mushrooming on various social network platforms, including Instagram. Among the many forms of advertising that marketers have relied on is influencer advertising, which pertains to hiring popular Instagram influencers to endorse particular products or services on their Instagram accounts. This study explores how these Instagram influencers use both texts and images to convey their advertising messages. Further, the study explores the differences in how male and female influencers construct their endorsement posts. A total of 20 advertisement posts were collected from 10 influencers and were analyzed from the multimodal approach integrated with the concepts of linguistic metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Then, the gender differences in texts and images were elaborated. It is shown that interpersonal language dominates the language used in the captions, despite the specific differences in the linguistic items used by men and women. Likewise, in the images, the influencers seem to consistently put the spotlight on themselves rather than on the products to captivate the followers' attention. The findings of this study will eventually contribute to the literature on advertising language and multimodal analysis. 
“All Politics is Local”: A Sociocognitive Investigation of Contexts as Indigenous Peculiarities in Gubernatorial Inaugurals Adebayo Rasheed Mabayoje
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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Devised by Tip O'Neill, "all politics is local" relates to the standard that -as a politician- a new governor’s communicative skill is directly connected to the shared understanding of the peculiar situations of a particular locality, by which views regarding the governor’s new regime are presented in an inaugural speech (IS). This angle of contexts in IS pictures the cognitive bridge of language and society; and has received scarce scholarly attention, particularly from the sociocognitive perspective. They are, therefore, explored in this article along with peculiar activities and events (as issues) in the inaugural speeches of three Nigerian Governors- relying on insights from van Dijk’s Context Models and Fauconnier and Turner’s Conceptual Blending. Six discursive contexts –categorised under common (labour, restoration, electoral process), and distinctive (divine support, tradition and value, morality) -situated six issues in the speeches, in terms of how Governors Rauf Aregbesola (RA) and Olagunsoye Oyinlola exploited Osun people’s religious inclination; in terms of the disposition of RA’s regime to the ideals of some previous administrations; and in terms of how Adebisi Akande rationalised participants’ behaviours. The article argues that described events and ongoing discourses in a new governor’s IS are the subjective mental representations that typify participants’ indigenous peculiarities, and constrain communicative meaning derivations. 
Nnimmo Bassey’s Aesthetic Imagination and Social Meaning in We Thought It Was Oil but It Was Blood Okwudiri Anasiudu
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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This paper explores Nnimmo Bassey’s poetry collection: We Thought it Was Oil but It Was Blood. It interrogates the aesthetic imagination and language use in the construction of the poem as a text, and the social meaning wrapped in such imagination and language use. This paper draws insight from postcolonial ecocriticism and critical functional linguistics as theoretical frameworks. The methodology this paper adopts is qualitative, descriptive, and critical. The guiding motivation for this research is the dearth of critical study on Bassey’s We Thought it Was Oil but It Was Blood. The research problem and gap this study seeks to bridge is the minimal attention the available scholarship on Bassey's poetry offered to the exploration of aesthetic imagination and social meaning construed through the internal formal structure of the poem, realised through stanzas, and structures and the linguistic configuration such as deixis, metaphorical schemas. The analysis shows that place deixis, pronouns adjective, and metaphors are important linguistic designs Bassey deploys in construing his aesthetic imagination, particularly the social realities of the Niger Delta region such as the contentious issue of environmental justice, ecological despoliation, minority rights, and agitation whenever resource control is mentioned.
Poetics of Love in Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” Mohamad Mosavat; Tahereh Rezaei
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 22, No 1 (2022): April
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May and Marcher in Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” pursues an odd relationship interpreted by James’s critics as fraudulent, self-victimizing, or queer. While May is reduced to a witness to Marcher’s psychosomatic complexities, an evidence reliable to justify Marcher’s troubled heterosexuality, Marcher is deprived of any romantic yearnings for her. This article, departing from simplistic psychosexual interpretations having ended up demoting May to an inferior position and Marcher to a homosexual character, suggests the main problem of their relationship is the contrast between their love styles. In this relationship, the communication is prevented not so much by May’s subordinate silence/assent as by Marcher’s narcissism. John Allan Lee’s typology of love helps individually explicate each character’s psychological traits and romantic advances under Lee’s comparing terms of eros/ludus and storge/mania. The result of this case-by-case analysis is to prove their relationship is nothing but the obsession Dorothy Tennov redefines in her limerence theory based on such terms as idealization, crystallization, and intrusive thinking. After proving May and Marcher as limerent lovers, each pursuing a love style fundamentally at odds with the love style of the other, this article finally, based on Sigmund Freud’s notion of cathexis, concludes it is Marcher’s narcissism or self-cathexis that bars the doors of proper communication and mutual recognition.  

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