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JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
ISSN : 26559080     EISSN : 26858878     DOI : https://doi.org/10.30743/
Journal of Language (JoL) is an open access and a peer reviewed scientific journal covering research reports in linguistics, literature or language teaching, and critical evaluations of books on the related areas published by Faculty of Literature, Islamic University of North Sumatra (UISU), Medan, Indonesia. The main objective of JoL is to provide a platform for scholars, academicians and researchers to share the contemporary thoughts mainly in the fields of language, literature, and language teaching. This journal is published twice a year in May and November.
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BETRAYAL OF LOVE ON PROTAGONIST IN ALEX MICHAELIDAS’ NOVEL THE SILENT PATIENT Fitria Salsabila
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6835

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This research is entitled betrayal of love on protagonist in Alex  Michaelidas’ novel  The Silent Patient. This study focuses on the effect of the betrayal of love on protagonist. The data used in this study is  obtained  from  the  quotation  in  the  novel.  Collecting data is based on the theory, understandings, and explanations of betrayal of love. These are put forward by experts such as Fitness and the American Psychiatric Association. This study also uses the love theory of Stenberg. These theories are useful for  providing  understanding  and  explanations  of  betrayal  and  love  related to research problems. In  analyzing this research, qualitative  research  method was used.  The result shows that there are four effects of betrayal of love on the protagonist in the novel The Silent Patient. They are revenge, loss of trust, loss of integrity, and betrayal trauma. Each of the effects  contains three data and they are analyzed based on the theory.
PARAGRAPH UTILIZING ON BBC NEWS IN ANALYSING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE: A MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH Mutakhirani Mustafa
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6563

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the paragraphs utilization on BBC News in analyzing simple present tense by using morphological approach. The object of the research was non-EFL students of  IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon. The sample of the research was 32 students. This research implemented a descriptive method, an action research. An action research is a method of testing theories using the real world. To make the students understand the simple present tense therefore the researcher applied a morphological approach to analyze simple present tense.  The steps of the research are first the students are asked to read the paragraph of the BBC News and then find the simple present in which the verbs experienced affixation -s, -es, and -ies . The next step is that the students complete the missing word. Data collection is taken from the students' answers. The students do the activity regularly to know the influence of the treatment.  The resulting score of the post-test showed that the ability of the students in analyzing simple present tense in English News by using BBC News application and using morphological approach was effective. It indicated that all treatments successfully helped the students in analyzing simple present tense.   Based on the score after the implementation of the treatment, the analyzing skill of the students improved. Adding -s, -es, and -ies on the verbs in the simple present in the paragraph of the news on BBC News is a morphological process.
SYMPTOMS AND CAUSES OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES IN LEILA S. CHUDORI’S NOVEL FOR NADIRA Elsa Ardani; Susi Ekalestari
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6902

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This study aims to analyze the traumatic experiences and their effects in the novel For Nadira, written by Leila S. Chudori. She is an Indonesian author who has written various journal and literary works, one of which was awarded the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2013. A traumatic condition occurs due to events (single or continuous) whose intensity is beyond everyday human experience or which are interpreted as extraordinary by individuals, causing feelings of anxiety, fear, and helplessness that have a negative impact on the quality of life physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially. The writers chooses this title to determine two objectives: first, to reveal the symptoms of the traumatic experiences, and second, to explain the causes of the traumatic experiences using the theory of trauma from Irwanto and Hani Kumala. This research is completed using the descriptive-qualitative method. The data are taken from the novel For Nadira, Leila S. Chudori. The effects of traumatic experiences can make a person feel panic, constant fear, sensitive, angry and have a sense of hatred towards the people involved in the trauma experience.
EFFORT TO SURVIVE IN YANN MARTEL’S NOVEL LIFE OF PI Ayu Annisya Rachman Nasution; Zulfan Sahri; Asnani Asnani
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6834

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This study deals with the analysis of the protagonist’s effort to survive in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. This study focuses on three topics. The topics are reading sea survival guidebook, getting defence from the tiger and defending his life.  The novel talks about an Indian teenager, who is trapped in the middle of the fierce sea for 227 days with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. To survive, he makes several attempts. He reads survival guidebook found in the lifeboat. He gets defense from the tiger. Then, he defends a life. In this study, the theory of sea survival was applied. This study used descriptive qualitative method because the process of the result and discussion are accomplished descriptively. By applying descriptive qualitative method, this research can prove that protagonist has some efforts to survive because the topics of the protagonist's efforts to survive really exist and can be faced by the protagonist. Based on the research analysis, three efforts to survive are found in the novel. First, The protagonist,  Pi does several things to read sea survival guidebook, to get defence from the tiger, and to defend his life. 
LOVE AND BELONGING NEEDS IN ISTIQOMAH’S NOVEL SERIBU MUSIM MERINDUIMU Nurhasanah Nurhasanah; Purwanto Siwi; Muhammad Ali Pawiro
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6900

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The aim of the study is to explore the protagonist's effort in fulfilling her love and belonging needs as viewed from Abraham Maslow's theory. There are four different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs discussed: security and safety needs, social needs, and esteem needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often displayed as a pyramid. The lowest levels of the pyramid of needs are made up of the most basic needs, while the most complex needs are at the top. Once lower-level needs have been met, people can move on to the next level of needs. The researchers identify the characteristics of Reysa as the protagonist in Seribu Musim Merinduimu and analyze her fulfillment of love and belonging needs. This novel was chosen because nowadays people think that love is the right of everyone, regardless of their marital status. The researchers use qualitative descriptive analysis to reveal the findings, as the focus of the research revolves around people and their surroundings. The data were collected from the novel and other relevant sources. From the analysis of the novel, the researchers find the four hierarchy of needs. In the context of the hierarchy of needs, she faces obstacles in fulfilling her love and belonging needs because she loves a married man. But in the end, she is able to fulfill her needs for love and belonging after going through various challenges.
POLITENESS VIOLATION IN EFL CLASSROOM: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION APPROACH TO CLASSROOM INTERACTION Fitriyah Fitriyah
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6924

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In every English learning class, there must be a process of communication between lecturers and students, upholding intellectual values in communicating. Both have different social distancing that will make some politeness violations in classroom. Politeness is an important factor in human interaction, a behavior polished by relying on social conventions, institutionalized and socially evaluated. This research aims to analyze the politeness violation in EFL classroom and the most dominant of politeness violation by means of descriptive qualitative method, revealing social phenomena, using an ethnographic of communication approach.  The participants of this study are three lecturers and the students of three English classes. The study uses a qualitative descriptive method and ethnography of communication approach. The results of this study show politeness violation of tact maxim, 42,30 %, approbation maxim, 9,61 %, generosity maxim,  3,85%, modesty maxim, 13,46%, agreement maxim, 25%, and sympathy maxim, 5,76%. The most dominant politeness violation is politeness violation of tact maxim.
SOCIAL CONFLICT IN RIAN JOHNSON’S MOVIE SCRIPT KNIVES OUT Sonie Moezakir Lubis; Andang Suhendi
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6872

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This study deals with an analysis of the protagonist’s social conflict in the Knives Out movie script written by Rian Johnson (2019). This study found out the kinds of social conflict, like human-to-human and human-to-society conflict, and the ways protagonists faced the social conflict. The theory of conflict used in this study was the theory of conflict proposed by Soekanto (2012). This study used the descriptive qualitative method proposed by Cohen because the process of the result and also the discussion were accomplished descriptively. The method applied was descriptive. It was to describe the kinds of social conflict and the way the protagonist faced the social conflict through the quotation in the movie script. The result of this study was that the protagonist faced social conflict to get the inheritance, even though it was not from the real family. The conflict occurs between humans and between humans and society.
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS IN JOJO MOYES’ NOVEL ME BEFORE YOU Rika Alvionika Sari; Devi Pratiwy
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.6901

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This research is aimed at protagonist’s physiological needs in the novel Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes based on Maslow’s theory. There are five basic needs based on Maslow’s theory. This study only focuses on physiological needs in the protagonist’s life. Physiological needs, the most important basic needs, is the elements needed by human being in maintaining life and health. This study used qualitative method to describe the obtained data. The result shows that there are four important points of physiological needs found in the protagonist’s life. Those are food, water, clothing and rest. It is found that the protagonist in the novel puts first her basic needs. She fulfills her needs for food, water, cloth, and rest. The basic needs must be fulfilled first before other needs. Therefore, the protagonist in the novel can live healthily and continues her life safely.
ACT OF COMMISSIVE PERFORMED BY M. JEFRI PRATAMA AS THE DEFENDANT IN THE JUDICIAL CASE OF JUDGE JAMALUDDIN’S MURDER Fifi Safreni; Muhammad Ali Pawiro; Purwanto Siwi
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.7004

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M. Jefri Pratama was the second defendant who participated in the planning and assisted in the execution of a heinous murder. It was proven that he had an affair and helped Zuraida Hanum kill her husband, as judge Jamaluddin wrote in the minutes of the court decision. This paper aims to explore the Searle’s in Yule (1996: 54) commissions, which were carried out by M. Jeffri Pratama, who was sentenced to death because of his involvement in the murder. The research method is descriptive-qualitative. In this context, M. Jefri Pratama uses commissive speech acts in his utterances, which mean he will take actions in the future. This includes the meaning of promising, threatening, refusing, pledging, offering, vowing, volunteering, and changes in statements, the actor’s speech situation, and the result. Its substance is seen in the discourse that leads to the meaning and order taken from the Medan High Court Decision. The purpose of this research is first to understand speech acts and the types of commissive speech acts, and second, to understand how the commissive speech acts influence people to carry out certain actions later in the murder case of Judge Jamaluddin. The results of this study have found four types of commissive speech acts: promising, offering, threatening, and refusing. Domination: the commissive speech acts produced by M. Jefri Pratama are threatening.
STRENGTHENING RELIGIOUS MODERATION FOR STUDENTS THROUGH LITERATURE LITERACY PROGRAM Leny Sri Wahyuni; Listiana Ikawati
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 5, No 1: May 2023
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/jol.v5i1.7012

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Facts related to religious ways that tend to be radical and extreme can threaten the reason and attitude of the younger generation, including students. Therefore, an innovation study focusses on the positioning of students in order to act as producers against extremist narratives is needed. This can be done with intensive education and mentoring of good and directed writing skills through a literature literacy program with religious moderation perspectives for students. Therefore, this research is aimed to describe the study of innovation through a literature literacy program with religious moderation perspectives at the Darul Ma'arif Cikedung Islamic boarding school, Majalengka. This research is descriptive qualitative research using the case study method. Based on the results of the research, it is found that the understanding of moderation does not have to be conveyed rigidly through classes that tend to be conventional but can also be done through light writing of the literary genre as a form of innovation in the spread of Islam rahmatan lil alamin. This is proven by the results obtained by the Darul Ma'arif students who can manifest their moderate understanding through literary works in the form of short stories.

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