JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
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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<![CDATA[REGRET IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL THE BEST OF ME ]]>
<![CDATA[Anggi Pangestina]]>;
<![CDATA[Devi Pratiwy]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5210
<![CDATA[This study aims to discuss the types of regret that represent the effects of the protagonist's regret in Nicholas Spark's novel entitled The Best of Me, and to describe the effects of the protagonist's regret. This study is the result of a qualitative assessment of the regrets of the protagonist named Dawson Cole. The theory used in this study is the theory proposed by Zeelenberg (2007), and supported by Pieters R. A (2007). The results of this study indicate that there are two types of regret reflected in the novel; they are existential regret and regret of inaction. The cause of the protagonist's regret is that the protagonist avoids Amanda all his life, and his regret that he is inferior and unworthy to be with Amanda. The effect of the protagonist's regret is that he lies to his own feelings and remains single for the rest of his life.]]>
<![CDATA[TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE ]]>
<![CDATA[Sri Yani]]>;
<![CDATA[Ely Ezir]]>;
<![CDATA[Irma Khoirot Daulay]]>;
<![CDATA[M. Manugeren]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5273
<![CDATA[This research focused on teaching narrative text through mind mapping technique. The objectives of this research were to know and describe the process of teaching narrative writing using mind mapping. The data of this study were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were obtained by observing the teaching-learning process during the implementation of the actions and interviewing the students and the collaborator about the implemented actions. The qualitative data were in the forms of field notes and interview transcripts. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were gained by assessing the students’ writing skill through the pre-test and the post-test. Therefore, the quantitative data were in the form of students’ writing scores in the pre-test and the post-test. The results of this study showed that the use of the mind mapping was effective to improve the students’ writing skill. The use of colorful pictures of mind mapping in the BKOF and MOT stages was effective to make the students more enthusiastic in the writing activities. The writers found that the student’s problems in writing were that the students were confused to develop their ideas because they did not have many vocabularies. Furthermore, the students had problems in matters of capitalization, punctuation, grammatical error, and organization. They also needed too much time to finish their writing.]]>
<![CDATA[COMPLEXITIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH IN HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL: A STUDY OF FOUR COLLEGES IN BOGURA DISTRICT, BANGLADESH ]]>
<![CDATA[Md. Sabbir Hossain]]>;
<![CDATA[Md. Nazmul Haque]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5225
<![CDATA[This paper aims to explore the challenges of English language teaching in the Bogura district, Bangladesh. Although Bogura is advanced in establishing educational institutions and trades, it is still lagging in respect of the quality and consequence of English language teaching in higher secondary education. In comparison to the other subject, it seems much more difficult for both teachers and learners. Therefore, the problems of English language learning have been listed, and the result of class observation of colleges in the Bogura district has been presented. To do this study, a descriptive research design, quantitative method, and questionnaires are used. The present findings opine that the majorities depend on the exam system to just pass the exam and there is no equal chance to be skilled in four skills of the English language students. The lacking of teachers has also been detected. However, the study attempts to illuminate a scenario of the English teaching system as well as the problems and prospects of English language learning and teaching in higher secondary education.]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECT OF CAPITALISM IN SUZZANE COLIN’S NOVEL THE HUNGER GAMES ]]>
<![CDATA[Egawai Egawati]]>;
<![CDATA[Safitri Hariani]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5099
<![CDATA[This research is conducted to analyze the effects of capitalism in society through the novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins and to determine the negative effects that occur in society. According to Karl Marx capitalism is the production of value and surplus-value. It is an ideology that believes that the owner of production can do their effort to get the big profit. The negative effects that are analyzed in this study are: poverty, social stratification, and totalitarianism. Poverty as deficiency materials and services needed to achieve a decent life. Poverty is a condition where a person is unable to meet basic needs such as shelter, food clothing, decent health, and education. Social stratification is system of differentiation of individuals or groups in society, which placing it in social classes that differ hierarchically and provide different rights and obligations between individuals in one layer with another layer. Totalitarianism is meant to a government that is strong, powerful, lasting and all-encompassing and within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. It is applied to explain the negative impact of capitalism from quotations in the novel. This research finds that the three effects of capitalism: poverty, social stratification, and totalitarianism are found the novel.]]>
<![CDATA[CARPE DIEM IN ANDREW MARVELL’S POEM TO HIS COY MISTRES ]]>
<![CDATA[Arifuddin Arifuddin]]>;
<![CDATA[Hidayati Hidayati]]>;
<![CDATA[Misla Geubrina]]>;
<![CDATA[Hendra Mulia]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5274
<![CDATA[Carpe Diem derives from Latin which, in English, means seize the opportunity by enjoying the present time and trusting the least possible to the future. The future is formed through the present. Carpe Diem is the main theme in Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress and is the object of this research. The poet's view of the transience of the world is clearly illustrated referring to the limitations of time and space for humans; Thus, every available moment must be utilized. This research is conducted using descriptive qualitative method related to social phenomena and based on the Carpe Diem terminology and supported by the concept of taking advantage of existing opportunities. These two concepts basically refer to a single notion which states that opportunities will not come repeatedly. The results show that there are two forms of Carpe Diem in this poem, namely in matters of love and sex and both are conveyed by the male lover to his lady by using the arguments that they are mortal and everything they have is limited. Relationships of love and sex must be carried out immediately because only then can they see, feel and enjoy the beauty of love and the pleasures of sex.]]>
<![CDATA[DEUTRAGONIST’S EGOISM IN JOJO MOYES’ NOVEL ME BEFORE YOU ]]>
<![CDATA[Adelia Febriana Lubis]]>;
<![CDATA[Muhammad Ali Pawiro]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5187
<![CDATA[This study is to explore the deutragonist’s egoism in Jojo Moyes Novel Me Before You. The study focuses on the accidental meeting between Will and Louisa which makes them fall in love but they do not end up together. Their love does not make Will egoistic to go away and not to change his decision to end his life. It takes an analysis on psychological egoism and ethical egoism. Additionally, the analysis is concerned with the two characteristics of deutragonist’s egoism before and after the accident. This study used a qualitative method to find evidence from the data identified from the novel. The analysis is done by classifying the data related to the research problem. The results of this study indicate that Will’s egoism cannot be imitated, and it is not accepted in an environment such as committing suicide. The obstacles and struggles of the second character are found to fulfill his needs which are also related to the love story in the novel. ]]>
<![CDATA[DARK TIMES IN EKA KURNIAWAN’S NOVEL BEAUTY IS A WOUND ]]>
<![CDATA[Nur Salaila]]>;
<![CDATA[Asnani Asnani]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.4981
<![CDATA[The purpose of this research is to find out the dark times experiences that the protagonist undergoes in the novel Beauty is A Wound written by Eka Kurniawan in i 2002. This novel tells the story of Dewi Ayu who is willing to be trampled by the power of the Japanese army, because Dewi Ayu wants to save her best friend’s mother. Dark times is a natural feeling which, if unfelt, will stay in one’s array of unresolved trauma knots. This research uses qualitative method in which the data are taken by quoting the relevant proofs from the novel then analyzing them and making the conclusion in the description forms. The findings show that the dark times undergone by the protagonist’s gives negative impact to her life. The dark times period experienced by the protagonist covers violence, slavery, social status discrimination, and being a single parent. The dark period experienced by the protagonist makes her feel sad, but i, precisely, makes her much stronger to live. It is reflected here how she negotiates with the colonizers in defending his life, although, it does not stop until the end of the colonial period and she lives as a prostitute until the end of her life.]]>
<![CDATA[TYPES OF DEIXIS USED IN THE DOUM-TREE OF WAD HAMID: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ]]>
<![CDATA[Elbadri Abbas Elzubier]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5100
<![CDATA[In linguistics, the term deixis is used to describe the use of general words and phrases by speakers to point to persons, objects, specific place and time from their physical or psychological positions while communicating their messages. Such words and phrases are considered deictic when their denoted meaning becomes context-dependent. The present study used AntConc v.3.5.9 corpus analysis toolkit to find out the frequent occurrence of the types of deixis used in the English translation of the short story The Doum-tree of Wad Hamid, and then utilized the useful information obtained along with examples manually derived from the story to discuss the extent to which this use of deixis reflects the author's style and the story's point of view. The results indicated that the common five types of deixis were used in the short story with a different degree of frequency and usage, but personal deixis was the most dominant with 653 examples represented 54.10% out of the total of 1207 deictic instances found in the corpus. Social deixis ranks second with 242 examples represented 20.05%. The study deduced that the dominant use of person pronouns as personal deixis or relational social deictic words reflects the author's style and point of view in the narration line via which the narrator recounts the events from his own perspective.]]>
<![CDATA[DEVIDE ET IMPERA IN JONATHAN SWIFT’S NOVEL GULLIVER’S TRAVELS ]]>
<![CDATA[Endah Hari Utama]]>;
<![CDATA[Muhammad Fatih Suhadi]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5278
<![CDATA[This study discusses Devide et Impera in the novel Gulliver’s Travels, written by Jonathan Swift and published in 1726. This research is motivated by the writers’ interest in knowing about the conflict between the Lilliput and Blefuscu countries. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method, and one of the significant theories used in this research is proposed by Morrock, who claims that there are four major tactics commonly used by those who make use of this Devide et Impera strategy. Seeing the divisions between the two countries, the reason is due to disagreements on how to crack eggs correctly. Emperor Liliput argues that the way to break eggs is with a sharp tip, while Blefuscu’s is different. As a result of these differences of opinion, in the end, it leads to an extraordinary conflict, namely a war that claims lives and weakens the economies of the two countries based on political strategy and political influence.]]>
<![CDATA[MALE AND FEMALE PERCEPTION OF TABOO IN ACEH LANGUAGE ]]>
<![CDATA[Maria Ulfa]]>;
<![CDATA[Mulyadi Mulyadi]]>;
<![CDATA[Mhd Pujiono]]>;
<![CDATA[Khairina Nasution]]>
<![CDATA[ JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE Vol 4, No 1: May 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/jol.v4i1.5181
<![CDATA[This research is to obtain male and female perspectives on taboo language. This study used qualitative research with a phenomenology approach. There are fourteen subjects in this research that consist of seven males and seven females, the age of the subject is categorized into a start from early adulthood to middle adulthood. The researchers used observation and gave questionnaires to find the data. The result of this research showed that; 1) males and females ever use taboo language, but a male dominantly used taboo language, about 57%, compared to females 14% in using taboo language in daily communication. 2.) A taboo language used by an adult is very limited; adults only know about the taboo related to dirty words and insults, showing that taboo language understood by an adult is shifting in believing and practicing. 3) Male and Females have the same perspective towards taboo language, Most females believe that taboo is impolite words.]]>
