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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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Literature as a Medium of Exposing Social Problem through Thomas Grays Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard M Manugeren; Jumino Suhadi; pardi pardi
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 20, No 1 (2020): April
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Apart from being an entertainment medium, literature has also an important role in exposing social problems, as basically literature is born and is intended for the community. Through the disclosure of social problems, the role of literature is increasingly developing, among others, as a medium of teaching, reference, reflection, character building and also criticism. Thus, it is clearly illustrated that literature has multifunctional roles. The message conveyed through literature can be effectively absorbed by the community owing to the entertainment factor. Through the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray tells the story of the lives of marginal people, always having to face problems. Through descriptive qualitative research method, referring to social phenomena, supported by sociology of literature approach, the results of the study show that there are three social problems that always arise in the community, especially in the lower class one: poverty, right to get proper education and equality to obtain opportunities in the line of life. These three social problems are closely interrelated so that they become a unification undermining the lives of marginalized people.
Vowel Change Found in Geoffrey Chaucers The House of Fame: Great Vowel Shift Tia Xenia
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 1 (2015): April
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It has already been understood that Great Vowel Shift (GVS) takes the major differences between the pronunciation in Middle English and Modern English. GVS is a change in pronunciation of vowel sounds in English language. The evidence of this change can be attained through written texts. It can be found by comparing Geoffrey Chaucers literary works to William Shakespeares works to see the differences. However, in this paper I focused only on analyzing the GVS in Geoffrey Chaucers poem entitled The house of Fame. The purpose of this study is to find out what kind of sound shift appears in The House of Fame and to explain in what phonological environment the vowel shift takes place. The result shows that there are seven kinds of sound shifts found in the poem. Those are [e:][i:], [i:][a?], [?:][o:], [?:][e:], [a:] [?:] [e?], [o:] [u:], and [u:] [au]. Besides, from this study, it can be concluded that there are three kinds of phonological environments employed in vowel shift.Keywords: Great Vowel Shift, Geoffrey Chaucer
The Interpersonal Factors Affecting the Introduction to English Literature Lecturers Politeness Strategy Teofilus Natanael; Adventina Putranti
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 19, No 1 (2019): April
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Politeness strategy is always associated with a group of people with different social backgrounds. In their conversations, some people tend to apply different politeness strategy depending on the social status of the people whom they are talking to. One of the situations where the politeness strategy takes place is in a classroom. The way of a certain lecturer, as the one who has authority, delivers his or her instructions represents a particular politeness strategy. By considering the subject and the context, classroom situation is selected as the data source in analyzing politeness strategy and the factors that influence it. Apparently, social distance and power are the factors triggering each lecturer to apply different types of politeness strategy.Keywords: Politeness strategy, the factors, Power, Social distance
The Meaning of Green Light in The Great Gatsby Based on Consumerism Perspective: Umberto Ecos Semiotic Study Maria Vincentia Eka Mulatsih
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2015): October
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One of recent problems in our country is the habit of being consumerist buying things whichare not needed to update the trend. Some people think that it is not a big problem, but some do not.Avoiding its negative effect is the answer to this problem. This can be done through learning pastexperiences in the literary works, in this case Fitzgeralds novel. The Great Gatsby depicts not onlylove but also consumerism. Through analyzing the sign of green light using Umberto Ecos semiotictheory, we can see the bad effect of consumerism in the past and anticipate it for our future byapplying its oppositional structure. The sign of green light is not merely an orgiastic feature. It is atool for Fitzgerald to fight consumerism effect.
Request Strategies in Indonesian: An Analysis of Politeness Phenomena in Text Messages Jeanyfer -; Trisnowati Tanto
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 18, No 2 (2018): October
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A lot of linguists have paid a lot of attention to the phenomena of politenesssome said it should be in the area of Sociolinguistics, while others believe that it belongs to the domain of Pragmatics. The present study focuses on politeness phenomena as a part of Pragmatic domain as it aims to see how language, especially Indonesian, is used to realize politeness in text messages between people who would like to request a favor, thing, or information. It is believed that speakers use different strategies to achieve their goals when talking to different people. The study utilizes Browns and Levinsons theory on politeness strategies to examine the strategies used by the speaker when communicating with hearer of different power and distance relations. Along with the theory, this study also employs request strategies that are derived from Searles speech act classifications. The result shows that in terms of strategies, people have the tendency to use negative politeness strategies in communicating with other people that have more power than them, while a mix between negative and positive strategies are used mostly to those they consider peer or lower in power.Keywords: politeness strategies, request strategies, speech acts, pragmatics
The World Literature and Women’s Voice in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007) Indiwara Pandu Widyaningrum
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 21, No 1 (2021): April
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This study seeks to investigate the women’s voice in the world literature depicted by ethnic female authors from African-American and Korean descent. Gaining international recognition in the world literature, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes (1970) and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007) reveal different social-cultural conditions about how women are presented in their respective nation. Morrison presents the life of colored women struggling with racial discrimination in the predominant white society. Meanwhile, Kang employs the symbolic food of meat and vegetarianism to reveal the women’s voice against social conformity. Applying écriture feminine or women’s writing in the analysis, both Toni Morrison and Han Kang scrutinize the stereotypical representation of women as passive, obedient, and lacking. In examining the two works, some steps were done: 1) having close reading towards the text to analyze the representation of women; 2) doing the socio-cultural analysis in connection to the women’s voice; 3) drawing the conclusion about the significance of world literature to the women’s voice. This study finds that the world literature has its significant contribution as the windows for global readers to understand women’s issues portrayed in two different nations. Not only to present women’s voice, ethnic female authors such as Toni Morrison and Han Kang indeed share the local culture through their novels. With this condition, the world literature enables to break the barriers of male Western authors as the center by offering room for female writers from non-Western countries.
C.S. Lewis Use of Symbol to Express Christian Concepts, Stories, and Teaching as Seen in The Chronicles of Narnia: the Magicians Nephew Hermawan -; Adventina Putranti
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 1 (2015): April
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Literature is said to be the medium where author expresses his experience in life, especially on the relationship with the creator. This idea could be clearly seen in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Magicians Nephew where C.S. Lewis, the author, expresses Christian concepts, stories, and teaching he understands throughout his life. Those all are expressed through symbolism due to its capability in making association with human experience as well as conveying any complex ideas in a form of concrete objects which are easily understood by the readers.Keywords: expressive approach, symbol, Christianity
A Reading of the Third “Vespers” by Louise Glück Muhammad Dirgantara Esa Valentino Am
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 20, No 1 (2020): April
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This paper presents a reading of the third “Vespers,” a poem by Louise Glück collected in The Wild Iris, a book of poem sequence spoken by four different voices, dealing with the fact of human existence in the world, especially in terms of human existential suffering. To this date, this award-winning book has been considered by many to be among the poet’s greatest achievements. This being the case, there have been so few detailed readings of the 54 poems constituting the book, however.  Most of the existing scholarships on the poems are topic-centered rather than poem-centered. This article attempts to make its contribution to this by presenting a close reading of one of the poems, which is especially central to this polyphonic book both thematically and structurally. Assuming the critical premises and the analytical procedure of Helen Vendler, whose focus is on a poem’s intrinsic elements and its relations to its thematic features, the paper discusses the third “Vespers”’s theme as expressed by both its obvious and minute features. By analyzing the poem’s title, body, internal structure, diction, tense, mechanic, rhythm, syntax, and imagery, the paper concludes that the poem expresses and dramatizes, through the obvious and minute details, the perennial theme of human’s pining for explanation about his/her discontent, which in the cosmos of the poem is directed to God, and its attendant feelings of doubt and conviction as a result of having to come up with his/her own answer as the one who holds the definite answer stays silent.
Problematizing de Beauvoirs Myth of Woman through Gender Relation in David Lehmans When a Woman Loves a Man Pramesthi Dewi Kusumaningrum; Sri Mulyani
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 16, No 2 (2016): October
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Gender relation in society is complex and fluid. However, the complexity and fluidity are oversimplified by patriarchal systems in the form of binary oppositions. David Lehmans When a Woman Loves a Man is a poem portraying the complexity and fluidity of gender relation. Through several levels of reading the poem, gender relations between woman and man are proven to be dynamic, yet it is still dominated by patriarchal systems. This research attempts to problematize de Beauvoirs myth of woman which represents gender relation between woman and man in binary oppositions. This research applies deconstructive method. The deconstructive method includes close reading and deconstructive reading. It is applied to problematize de Beauvoirs myth of woman through Lehmans When a Woman Loves a Man. The first level of reading (close reading) in Lehmans When a Woman Loves a Man shows that the findings on the form, diction, word order, point of view, and tone versus the findings on metaphors, imagery, symbols, and allusions are contradictory. The second level of reading (explication) shows that Lehmans When a Woman Loves a Man depicts some gender relation. Those are woman- man relation in speaking, never being in the same domain, performing different roles in the same domain, communicating, viewing gender relation, fighting, and considering night and sleep. The last level of reading is deconstructive reading. The first level of deconstructive reading questions the objectivity of portraying woman-man relation. The second level reveals the discontinuity of de Beauvoirs myth of woman to construct the gender relation in the poem in binary oppositions. The universalizing context and the absence of womans voice in de Beauvoirs myth of woman reveal the question of the objectivity of the myth and how even though de Beauvoirs myth of woman stereotypes both genders unequally, woman remains the marginalized one. Keywords: myth of woman, gender relation, deconstructive reading.
Analyzing Translation Strategies Utilized in the Translation of Song Do You Want to Build a Snowman? Chrisna Leni; Athriyana Santye Pattiwael
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 19, No 1 (2019): April
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This study focuses on revealing translation strategies used in the translation of song Do you want to build a snowman? in terms of strategic and non-strategic translation strategies. The data were the lines of a pair English-Indonesian selected song lyrics. The analysis of non-strategic translation strategies and strategic translation strategies was conducted by basing on the framework developed by kerstrm (2009) and Lefevere (1975). This study used qualitative descriptive method in analyzing the data. The result of the study shows that the translator tends to translate lines of the lyrics by using fewer number of words, yet the number of syllables remains similar to the source lines. Regarding strategic translation strategies used by the translator in translating lines of the lyrics, it is found that five strategies out of nine strategies have been used, they are paraphrases, rhymes, interpretation, omission of words, and addition of words strategies. Keywords: Non-Strategic translation strategies, song translation, strategic translation strategies