k@ta
k@ta: a biannual publication on the study of language and literature is a refereed journal published twice a year in June and December by the English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia. It presents articles on the study of language, literature and culture.
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<![CDATA[The Portrayal of Occultism in “The Call of Cthulhu” (1928) by H.P. Lovecraft ]]>
<![CDATA[Sebayang, Evan Arnoldi]]>;
<![CDATA[Kristianto, Bayu]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): DECEMBER 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.23.2.47-57
<![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft crafted an intricate mythos which initially did not find success until after his death, and his works, most notably “The Call of Cthulhu” (1928), were regarded to be a landmark towards the relevancy of occultism both in the field of literature and religious belief. The short story was regarded to be the staple of “cosmic horror” which Lovecraft applied to almost all of his stories. The paper analyze how “The Call of Cthulhu” influenced the belief of modern occultism, which can be inferred from the literary elements in the story. Further analysis will also identify how Lovecraft portrayed the subgenre “cosmic horror” to enhance the elements of occultism within the short story. In relation to the previous elements, the paper examine how a particular cult, Typhonian Order, was influenced by the elements of occultism used in the story.]]>
<![CDATA[Reading Through Emotions: An Affective Narratolological Approach to Alice Munro's Short Stories ]]>
<![CDATA[Sadeghi, Sahar]]>;
<![CDATA[Pirnajmuddin, Hossein]]>;
<![CDATA[Ladani, Zahra Jannessari]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): DECEMBER 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.23.2.86-94
<![CDATA[The emergence of fields of study like emotionology, affective narratology, and psychonarratology in recent decades evidences a dramatic rise in research done on the meaning and interpretation of emotions. Affective Narratology as one of the recent fields in emotion studies attempts to identify and account for the figuration of emotions in works of literature. Focusing on three basic emotions (shame, jealousy and love) figuring in Alice Munro’s selected short stories this paper probes the significance of emotional registers in the writer's depiction of daily life. Examined is the way the stories' sincere tone and their comprehensible, ordinary language, contribute to the emotional identification of readers with characters. Applying affective narratological theories, the objective is to show how emotions contribute to plot development and characterization in these stories. Central to the analysis is interpreting emotional moments experienced by characters, especially female characters]]>
<![CDATA[The Politeness Strategies Found in @kulinersby’s Instagram Account in Promoting Culinary Businesses ]]>
<![CDATA[Gunawan, Joshua Delbert]]>;
<![CDATA[Tjitrakusuma, Nani Indrajani]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): DECEMBER 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.23.2.58-68
<![CDATA[This study aims to find out the types of politeness2 that are found in @kulinersby’s promotion culinary business promotion, and from there, the comments that are included as politeness1. The analysis is based on the theories of Brown and Levinson (1987) and Watts (2003). Watts (2003) states that what is theoretically considered as politeness (politeness2) in Brown and Levinson (1987) may not be the case in reality (politeness1). This qualitative study is limited to video-based posts, with the comments only related to how the account’s administrator promotes culinary businesses. From this research, the writers find that even though both politeness2 and politeness1 conflict with each other, there are some similarities that are found in analyzing both politeness. In conclusion, despite the lasting influence of Brown and Levinson’s (1987) theory, it still has some notable flaws, notably with universality and multiple interpretation of the strategies by different individuals, among others.]]>
<![CDATA[Understanding Domestic Violence in Indonesia Through a Play-with-music: A Story of Wounds ]]>
<![CDATA[Meilinda, Meilinda]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): DECEMBER 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.23.2.77-85
<![CDATA[The number of domestic violence is 50% out of violence against woman cases in Indonesia. This condition is intriguing to analyse. There must be a reason behind rising number of crimes related to inequality of women position in the society. One of the ways that can be used to reflect on this subject is through theatre. It is a work of art that can be used to discuss and inspire a necessary social change or social agenda. Therefore, applying textual analysis method on A Story of Wounds, a play by Jessie Monika, I would like to find the reasons behind that inequality to find the core problem of domestic violence as portrayed in ASoW. I utilize Bourdieu’s capital, habitus and field theory to prove that inequality between the wife and the husband, the deeply rooted patriarchy values create imbalance power that open opportunity for domestic violence toward women.]]>
<![CDATA[Ma’i Lepera : Representation of Leprosy in selected Hawai’ian-American Literature ]]>
<![CDATA[Indriyanto, Kristiawan]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): JUNE 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.24.1.1-10
<![CDATA[This study contextualizes how disease in form of leprosy is represented in literary works by focusing of three novels written by Hawai’ian-American writers. The legacy of leprosy outbreak in Hawai’ian archipelago in the 1800’s challenges the popular imagination of Hawai’i as idealized timeless tropical paradise. This study explores how the policy of isolation exiles leprosy patients in isolated island, Moloka’i, segregated from other citizens. Hawai’ians cultural contexts concerning balance (pono), and identity based on familial ties and sense of place is employed to explore how leprosy disrupts Hawai’ian conception of identity. This study also explores the concept of ecological other as theorized by Serpil Oppermann to contextualize the stigma and harassment associated with leprosy of being unclean and contagious. The object of this study are three Hawai’ian-American novels, Hawai’i (1959), Shark Dialogues (1995) and Moloka’i (2004). This study concludes that the representation of leprosy in selected Hawai’ian-American literature contextualizes the social stigma associated toward its sufferers and disrupts the question of identity through erasure of familial history and genealogy. It further posits the possibility of reclaiming genealogy, history and ancestry lost due to leprosy and how the reclamation results in creating hybrid Hawai’ian identity.]]>
<![CDATA[Toxic Masculinities in Post-9/11 Islam-Themed French Novels: Plateforme and Syngué Sabour. Pierre de Patience ]]>
<![CDATA[Udasmoro, Wening]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): JUNE 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.24.1.40-48
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT This article aims to explore the concept of toxic masculinities in two French literary works, namely Plateforme by Michel Houellebecq and Syngué Sabour. Pierre de Patience by Atiq Rahimi, whose stories are related to Islam after the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Toxic masculinities are suspected to be present in both works, namely by placing women in the position of objects of sexual gaze and symbolic violence. This article dredges the concept of toxic masculinities, which is a derivation of the concept of hegemonic masculinities introduced by Raewyn Connell. This paper employs a critical discourse analysis method by examining the language used by the authors at levels of linguistic practice, discursive practice, and social practice with corpus data taken from the wordings and rewordings of the texts. This paper concludes that sexual gaze and symbolic violence are toxic because they can be drivers of physical violence. Keywords: toxic, masculinities, French literature, Islam]]>
<![CDATA[Reconciling Aboriginal and White Australians by Negotiating Spatial Boundaries in The Secret River:: A Postmemory Study ]]>
<![CDATA[Sumaryani, Sri]]>;
<![CDATA[Anam, Zuhrul]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): JUNE 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.24.1.11-21
<![CDATA[The dichotomic concept of space between white and Aboriginal Australians has been widely used in the colonial discourse. Through The Secret River, Grenville dismantles the binary oppositions that serves as the main strategy for colonization. We argue that space as a medium of negotiation is used as her strategy to involve in the national reconciliation movement. Postmemory is employed to explain the strategy of choosing spatial locations that links with Grenville’s intergenerational memories. The analysis reveals that the boundaries created by the settlers upon the disputed land cannot successfully cover the chaotic and heterogenous nature of the Aboriginal Dharug land. Instead, the previous characteristics of the land keep appearing as a form of resistance. During the attempt, the settlers slowly recognize the similar nature of the Dharug’s living space to theirs. The process represents the ongoing understanding between the two parties which signifies the spirit of the national reconciliation movement.]]>
<![CDATA[Disnarration in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day ]]>
<![CDATA[Khosravi, Sareh]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): JUNE 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.24.1.22-28
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT This study discusses the disnarrated in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day by focusing on Gerald Prince’s ideas on the disnarrated. According to Prince, disnarration refers to events that have not happened but have been mentioned in the narrative. There are two modes for representing disnarration in the narrative of the novel: implicit and explicit. In the former, the disnarrated is represented by techniques like symbols, metonymies and foil characters. In the later, it is explicitly stated that a particular event could have happened but have not happened. However, based on Ishiguro’s preoccupation with the suppression of meaning, the majority of disnarrated narratives are implicit rather than explicit. The narrator’s implicit remarks signify his lost opportunities for the things he could have. Nearly at the ending of the novel, however, the narrator offers a more honest attitude to the readers by explicitly talking about his regrets and lost opportunities.]]>
<![CDATA[Deforestation in Indonesian and Malaysian Novels: When Wild Forests are Destroyed by Anthropocentricism ]]>
<![CDATA[Wiyatmi, Wiyatmi]]>;
<![CDATA[Liliani, Else]]>;
<![CDATA[Sari, Esti Swatika]]>;
<![CDATA[Safei, Mawar]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 24 No. 1 (2022): JUNE 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.24.1.29-39
<![CDATA[Anthropocentrism is one of the perspectives applied in figuring out human relations with the environment. The environmental crisis happening in most areas of the world lately is allegedly the impact of anthropocentrism, which views humans as the center of the universe, and only humans have the right to utilize and make use of nature for their interests and needs. One of the environmental crises which hit the world today is deforestation. The description of deforestation and its various consequences can be looked through not only from the news in mass media or research reports, but also from Indonesian and Malaysian novels. This study aims at examining the issue of deforestation described in Indonesian and Malaysian novels. The method applied is a comparative qualitative descriptive with an ecocritical perspective. As data sources, two Indonesian novels and two Malaysian novels were selected, namely Api Awan Asap (Rampan) and Tanah Tabu (Thayf) as the samples of Indonesian novels; Penunggu Rimba: Tombiruo (Mursid) and Anak Belantara (Abdullah) as the samples of Malaysian novels. From an eco-critical perspective, the results of the study show that in the four novels studied, it appears that there is an issue of deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia which has resulted in various other environmental problems. The four analyzed novels reveal how local wisdom can prevent and fight deforestation which occurs in the forests of Kalimantan and Papua. Added to this, through the novels, Indonesian and Malaysian writers both present ecocentrism perspectives to fight anthropocentrism which causes deforestation. Some different views are expressed by Indonesian and Malaysian writers in dealing with deforestation.]]>
<![CDATA[Conceptual Metaphor of Different Conventionality Levels from the Perspectives of Translatability Assessment and Translation Strategies ]]>
<![CDATA[Nguyen, Thong Vi]]>;
<![CDATA[Hien, Nguyen Thi Thao]]>
<![CDATA[ k@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): DECEMBER 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.9744/kata.24.2.49-60
<![CDATA[This study examines the Conceptual Metaphor Theory from an innovative perspective: translatability and translation strategy. The experiment recruited 239 undergraduate students of different translation training to evaluate the translatability of twelve sentences of different metaphor types before translating them into Vietnamese. Additionally, this study examines how students deal with metaphorical mapping images as well as grammatical and lexical refining attempts. The factorial ANOVA results (p=.02) indicate that the effect of metaphor types on translatability levels is conditional on translation training levels, despite the fact that the main effect is on metaphor types, not translation skill. Besides, twelve in-depth strategies to deal with the source sentences are identified, establishing a new model for metaphorical translation strategy. Chi-square analysis reveals associations between translation training levels and strategies (p<.01); and between metaphor types and strategies (p<.01). This study argues for the possibility that translation could be considered among conceptual metaphor's cognitive mechanisms.]]>
