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Linguistics Initiative
Published by Pusat Studi Bahasa dan Publikasi Ilmiah
ISSN : -     EISSN : 27753719     DOI : https://doi.org/10.53696/27753719
Core Subject : Humanities, Education,
Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
Linguistics Initiative is an academic journal that presents issues in linguistics and applied linguistics from multi-disciplinary approaches. This journal publishes articles that discuss research on language as a system of communication or a cognitive, social, and historical phenomenon as well as its acquisition in an educational context.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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Turn-taking as a Pedagogical Strategy in Classroom Interaction: A Conversation Analysis of Adjacency Pairs Daniel Arkoh Fenyi; Isaac Owusu Nyarkoh
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2225

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Most part of teaching and learning in the classroom is done through interaction or ‘talk’. The importance of teacher-student interaction in the teaching and learning process can, therefore, not be overemphasised. This study investigates the adjacency pair patterns of teacher-student classroom interaction and how these patterns impact on pedagogy. It is a qualitative study. All the four Senior High Schools in the Agona West Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana were engaged in the study. One English teacher each from the schools was selected through a random sampling technique. Their classes of an average size of 60 students were observed through participant observation and the teacher-student interactions were recorded through audio recording and note-taking. Analysis of the data was grounded in Schegloff’s (2007) conceptual framework of adjacency pair. The outcome of the study revealed that eight adjacency pairs were used in the language classroom. These are; greeting/greeting, check/clarification, instruction/compliance, question/answer, request/accept, accusation/refusal, complaint/apology and leave-taking/leave-taking. The data also revealed that 82% of the interactions is initiated by the teacher while only 18% is student-initiated. This has impacts on pedagogy and must therefore ignite the scholarly interests of pedagogues and linguists.
The Phenomenon of Code Switching Used in Daily Communication by Young People in Tumbu Village, Karangasem Ni Putu Novi Rupayanti
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2228

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The aim of this study is to find out the types and functions of code-switching that are commonly used by young people in Tumbu Village, Karangasem in their daily communication. This research is a kind of descriptive qualitative research. This study involved young people of Tumbu village, Karangasem, Bali aged 15-25 years old. The data were collected through observation and interview, and the data were analyzed descriptively. The research findings show that there was some code-switching phenomenon that happened in Tumbu Village, Karangasem. The code-switching that commonly happened in the daily communication of young people in Tumbu Village is the code-switching between the Indonesian language and the Balinese language. However, sometimes they also use or insert English words in their daily communication. The type of code-switching that is commonly used by young people in Tumbu Village, Karangasem is intra-sentential switching, which inserts words or phrases of other languages into the basic language. Moreover, the function of code-switching that is commonly used by young people in Tumbu Village, Karangasem is the Referential function, which means that people switch the language because they were more familiar with it and easier to speak certain words in the other language than their basic language.
The Analysis of Illocutionary Types of Speech Acts in Yakin Nikah Web Series Season 1: Indonesian YouTube Short Film Putu Claudia Suriani
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2239

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In order to maintain a great means of communication between people, language use plays a significant role in the interaction process. Within the interaction process among speaker and hearer comes with an act or action along that is called speech acts, which refers to when a person is saying something, it is hoped that the hearer act as what the speaker intends him or her to do. Speech acts are always found in our daily basis, and even found in films, advertisements, and social media such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. With the existence of YouTube, many short length films are found to have speech acts especially in one of the YouTube series entitled “Yakin Nikah”. By investigating “Yakin Nikah” characters’ speech acts, this research aims to explore the types of speech acts that exist and to analyse how those speech acts are then classified into Illocutionary act. This research uses descriptive qualitative method, by using several techniques such as visual analysis and textual analysis through watching the short film, writing down the transcriptions of the characters, identifying the written transcriptions into illocutionary act classifications. It is found that, the Directives speech acts are mostly present, followed by Representatives, Expressive, and last is Commissive with no signs of Declarative speech acts. In which it indicates that the Directives speech acts is present due to the speakers mostly wants the hearer to do something or respond to what the speaker has intended the speaker to do, Expressive acts to indicate the person’s state of psychology and last is the speech acts of future actions.
Language and Gender in Bubunan, Buleleng Regency Made Sri Ayu Magreani
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2246

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This research discusses language and gender in the sociolinguistic field with the purposes of finding out what are the vocabularies that is commonly used by the female teenagers and the male teenagers in Bubunan Village. Thus, this research is included as the types of observational research. In collecting the data of this research, the researcher conducted observation through the teenagers’ conversation in Bubunan Village and sometimes the researcher will involve in the conversation. The result of this research is the female teenagers more commonly using the standard vocabularies in their communication. When the female teenagers delivering a bad truth, they will choose polite words, so they are not using rude words and not hurting the speakers feeling. Meanwhile, the male teenagers commonly using the rude words to show their closeness and just being straightforward. In the interaction between male and female when they have interested each other, they will choose the polite words and speak softly. In the other hand, in the interaction between male and female teenagers if they have not interested each other or their relationship is close enough as a friend, they will speak bluntly.
Code-Switching and Social Media in Bangladesh: Emergence of a New English Kaniz Anjum Aorny; Md. Nazmul Haque; Md. Mozaffor Hossain
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2247

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Using two or more languages in a singular context or conversation is similar to going with the flow these days, specifically on social sites. This is referred to as "code-switching" by sociolinguists. The study aims at finding out the ratio and scenario of code-switching on social media in Bangladesh, and whether a New English has emerged or not for that. The study was conducted on a randomly chosen sample population of 40 participants across the country. It applied a mixed-method approach consisting of both qualitative and quantitative research methods to conduct this study. The study collected data through a close-ended questionnaire sent to the sample population via email, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Google Docs and some relevant data in the form of screenshots from Facebook posts, comments, and messenger chats. The findings of the study show that more than half of the participants in this research does not have the proper knowledge and intention regarding code-switching, and they perform it for sheer convenience in colloquial practice and communication. However, most of the participants do not support code-switching because they are concerned about their English language efficiency. And they also assert that Code-switching does not play a major role in the emergence of new sorts of English language because there are, in truth, other reasons behind this.
Foregrounding the Verbal Process: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Adichie’s Zikora (2020) Samuel Kwesi Nkansah; Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2250

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Literature mirrors societies. While the plethora of studies on African literature, spanning from the early 21st century, have discussed literary texts in their political spectrums, recent studies using transitivity analysis have offered new and objective understandings of these novels. Nonetheless, most transitivity analyses have been fixated on characterization, style and themes. Against this background, the purpose of this study was to use corpus procedures to examine the transitivity of verbal process types in Adichie’s recent novel Zikora. Assisted by corpus linguistics, the study used transitivity as an analytical framework to analyse the verbal process in the text. From the analysis, three major findings are reported from the discussion. First, through the verbal processes, the Adichie deconstructed the myriad suffering and subjugation of women through dialogic means and taking responsibility for their livelihood. Second, the foregrounded verbal processes reflect the attribution of processes to other characters than accounting for the literary effects projected through the clauses. Finally, while the writer used the projected clauses to attribute the verbal processes to others, the dominant use of the first-person mode of narration identifies a sharing of roles to account for the writing of the literary work. Following these findings, the study extends the scholarship on literary stylistics and provides implications for further research in other genres of (African) literature.
Investigating English Language as a Tool of Cultural Manipulation in English Medium Schools and Universities in Khulna City, Bangladesh Md. Obaidullah
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.2251

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This study follows a quantitative research design to investigate the perception of students from English medium schools and universities towards English language learning and cultural manipulation in Bangladesh. A total of 300 students from three English medium schools, two private universities and two public universities participate in the survey. A simple random sampling technique is followed to define the sample size. Further, the study uses a questionnaire as a tool for collecting data. Then, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 software is used for analyzing the data. The findings reveal that majority of the respondents are practicing western culture, and therefore, our Bangladeshi culture is gradually being replaced. Though English language has been playing a great role for the communication, it has become a threat to our own culture. The students are much more attracted to western culture and lifestyle neglecting Bangladeshi ones. They start adopting western culture to the detriment of Bangladeshi tradition and culture. Finally, the paper concludes confirming that such kind of excessive indulgence in western culture undermines Bangladeshi traditional values and ways of life. The government along with the language policy makers should emphasize how the native culture and the target culture can be represented in a more sensible and balanced way.
Sociolinguistics of Names of Hotels in Accra: A Linguistic Landscape Perspective Ebenezer Agbaglo; Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.3153

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In recent times, the language in public spaces (as seen in street names, school names, names of buildings, names of metro stations, names of tourist attractions, and commercial signs) has attracted scholarly attention in onomastics, with the focus on how it reflects the linguistic situation of urban landscapes and how it can be used to construct several identities. The present study aimed to investigate names of hotels in Accra – the capital city of Ghana, with considerable financial, cultural, and industrial significance – using Landry & Bouris’s (1997) Linguistic Landscape as a theory. The data comprises 160 hotel names accessed from the website of Yello Ghana, a well-known business directory. The analysis revealed, first, that most of the hotels deployed English monolingual names, with a few utilising bilingual names. Closely allied to this finding is the trend towards globalisation, as captured in some names of hotels. These key findings have implications for the scholarship in onomastics, urban landscape, language policy and planning, and further research.
Beyond the Classroom: Using Google Sites as a Supplementary Material to Improve the Learners’ English Academic Performance Trixie M. Lao; Amy Luz U. Catalan
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.3164

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The present study investigated the common challenges of learners in the new mode of learning and their frequency, if there would be a significant difference in the performance of the participants after using Google Sites, the acceptability of the Google Sites in terms of its content quality, instructional quality, and technical quality, and the experience of the respondents in using Beyond the Classroom as supplementary material for the Third Quarter. This action research used the survey questionnaires, evaluation tool, pre-tests, and posttest as instruments in answering the research questions. Respondents were 15 Grade 8 High School learners who have internet access. Results indicated always and sometimes characterized their experience on challenges such as understanding the lessons after reading the discussion found in the modules and that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores for lessons that are easy for them to understand and learn alone. Results also revealed that Beyond the Classroom is very acceptable in terms of its content, instructional, and technical quality, and respondents found it helpful in understanding their lessons. Finally, this study showed that learners struggle to cope with the changes in the new normal, and online supplementary material helps them understand their lessons and activities for the Third Quarter of the academic year 2021-2022.
The Syntactic Complexity of Noun Phrases in Second Language Students’ Writing Clara Ofosua Frempong; Stella Akosua Kayi; Sitsofe Ganu
Linguistics Initiative Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53696/27753719.3174

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Investigations on learners' writing have multiplied over the recent decades, but writings created by students of institutions of education are still mostly unstudied. This research looks into how noun phrases (NPs) were used in writings created by students at Ghanaian colleges of education (CoEs). Lu's (2010) three metrics for measuring overall NP complexity for text—a length-based metric of NP complexity, mean length of clause (MLC), and two specific NP complexity metrics—number of complex nominals per clause (CN/C) and number of complex nominals per T-Unit (CN/T)—were chosen and applied to a total of 318 texts written by Levels 100, 200, and 300 students from three colleges of education in Ghana. The results from the one-way ANOVA and its post hoc analysis showed a significant difference between Levels 100 and 300 students as well as between Levels 200 and 300 students in their use of complex noun phrases. Overall, Level 300 students significantly used more complex NPs than students in the other levels. It is recommended that in further studies, lexico-grammatical features such as relative clauses, prepositional phrases, and nominal clauses, should be analysed to assess complexity since academic language is a multifaceted entity which may be researched in various fields like SLA, applied linguistics, and language testing.

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