NOBEL : Journal of Literature and Language Teaching
NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching publishes articles on literature, language, and language teaching from various perspectives, covering both literary and fieldwork studies. The journal puts emphasis on aspects related to language studies, with special reference to culture, literature, linguistics, and language teaching. This journal always places English language and literature in the central focus of academic inquiry and invites any comprehensive observation with various dimensions in the country. The journal, serving as a forum for the study of literature, language, and language teaching, supports studies of particular themes and interdisciplinary studies in relation to the subjects. It has become a medium of exchange of ideas and research findings from various traditions of learning that have interacted in a scholarly manner.
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<![CDATA[MIKHAIL’S PERSONAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN PAULO COELHO’S THE ZAHIR ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.97-120
<![CDATA[Language is used not only for communication but also to reflect personality as well as to construct identity. The aim of this study is to examine Mikhail’s personal identity construction through his language use. Therefore, the labels attached to him and his stancetakings are investigated. In conducting the study, the writer applies Discourse Analysis. Descriptive research is used in order to identify, classify, and describe his utterances which contain the use of label and stancetaking. The findings reveal that he is a kind of arrogant person based on the values of the labels given by self. Furthermore, the more he puts label on himself in a society, the less he gets label from others. The findings also indicate that his tendencies to position himself along epistemic scale ‘certainty’ and disalign with his interlocutors in talk-in-interaction have successfully transformed him into a superior person.]]>
<![CDATA[THE WOMAN STRUGGLE OF BEING A GOVERNESS IN ANNE BRONTE’S AGNES GREY ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.121-129
<![CDATA[In the Victorian era, the existence of governess held unique position and became a social phenomenon in England. The governess became a popular figure in fiction. Many authors of governess novels drew on their own experience as a governess. Among these authors is Anne Bronte. In her first novel Agnes Grey, she depicted the life of governess throughout its female main character named Agnes Grey. This thesis focuses on analyzing that female main character and her struggle of being a governess. The aims of the thesis are to examine the motive that leads Agnes Grey to be a governess and to reveal her struggle to face the oppression from her employers within her being of governess depicted in the novel. Since studying on woman, this thesis basically uses Feminism theory which mainly focuses on womanhood. Marxist feminism is additionally used to examine governess as working woman is as woman source of oppression. Besides, inside the analysis the thesis also tries to correlate some points with Islamic views.]]>
<![CDATA[REVIVING THE PASSION OF LIFE THROUGH SUICIDE OF VERONIKA’S CHARACTER IN PAULO COELHO’S VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.130-144
<![CDATA[This article deals with psychological approach which concerns the analysis of reviving the passion of life through suicide of Veronika’s character in Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die. The study elaborates Alfred Adler’s individual psychology to analyze the process of reviving life’s passion happened in Veronika’s character. In addition, the formalist criticism involves in this thesis with some limitation to describe the Veronika’s character and to analyze her experiences in dealing with the suicide. The study aims to find out that the passion of life can be revived through the attempt of suicide. The method used in this thesis is qualitative, which is used by making the descriptive analysis through the actions and events that related to the identification process of reviving life’s passion done by Veronika in the novel. The study finds that there is an ability to revive the passion of life through the failure suicide in Veronika. The peoples’ innate for striving is driven Veronika to overcome her inferiority feelings. Moreover, the social interest influences Veronika to create the power of herself, so that can change her style of life in order to perceive the goals of life.]]>
<![CDATA[AN ANALYSIS OF TARZAN’ LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE MOVIE TARZAN OF THE APES (1999) ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.145-159
<![CDATA[This study concerns to the analysis of language acquisition in the movie Tarzan of Apes (1999). The study focuses on the character of Tarzan, how his own language is and how he passes his process of language acquisition. The study is descriptive qualitative because this study describes the process of language acquisition in the movie of Tarzan of the Apes. The writer uses some theories about language acquisition from Noam Chomsky, B.F. Skinner and some other supporting theories to conduct this study. By this study, the writer finds that Tarzan has no language until he meets other humans because he does not have supporting environment to get language acquisition. He is able to communicate with animals and vocalizes some sounds. Tarzan begins his language acquisition after he meets other humans.]]>
<![CDATA[PRESUPPOSITIONS IN MOBILE PHONE ADVERTISEMENTS ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.160-171
<![CDATA[The present study aims to describe the types of presuppositions contained in mobile phone advertisement and to describe the functions of presuppositions contained in mobile phone advertisement. The descriptive will describe and interpret phenomena related to presuppositions. The analysis of the mobile phone advertisements shows that the most dominant type of presuppositions found in selected slogans is lexical presuppositions. In terms of the functions of presuppositions in the advertisement, committing in implicit competition and making the advertisement short and memorable is the functions which are most frequently used.]]>
<![CDATA[GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN “THE MIRACLE WORKER†MOVIE ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.172-185
<![CDATA[This study attempts to analyze of the use of grammatical cohesion in “The Miracle Worker†movie script. The basic purpose of this present study is to investigate the frequent of grammatical cohesion in movie script and the function. This descriptive study found out that all the grammatical cohesions suggested by Hassan and Halliday can be seen in this movie except nominal ellipsis. In addition, this research also found three important functions of references, two functions of substitute, six functions of conjunction and only one function of ellipsis.]]>
<![CDATA[INSERTING AREK CULTURE IN A SYLLABUS PROPOSED FOR BIPA CLASS IN INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI SEPULUH NOPEMBER SURABAYA ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): SEPTEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2015.6.2.186-198
<![CDATA[In view of the need of multiculturalism and Indonesian cultures introduction to BIPA learners, the teaching and learning Indonesian cultures develop into essential part beyond the learning of Bahasa Indonesia itself. Countless studies mentioned that learning a foreign language is more meaningful if there is an involvement of the teaching of its culture. In addition to Bahasa Indonesia materials, the materials and references provided for BIPA learners contain rich-cultural Indonesian values, yet – too extensively. In this research, the writers tried to propose a syllabus that supports not only linguistic competence in Bahasa Indonesia but also more local culture values which is close to BIPA learners’ context. The local culture context applied in this research is Surabaya culture, Arek culture. R&D research method was used and the framework of teaching culture by Brooks (1968) was included in this study. The finding of this study provided valuable implications to BIPA learners as well as BIPA instructors with regards to Bahasa Indonesia competences and the introduction of one of local culture values in Indonesia.]]>
<![CDATA[Apology Strategies Expressed by the Characters in The Proposal Movie ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016): APRIL ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2016.7.1.1-14
<![CDATA[This research is based on the fact that mistake may occur in human interaction. To minimize its effect, the interlocutor needs to apologize to his/her counterparts. This research focuses on the apology strategies, namely the ways of expressing apologies and the social functions of the apologies in “The Proposal†movie. Descriptive research is applied to investigate the phenomenon of apology. The data were verbal and nonverbal apology expressions taken from the English transcript of the movie. The researcher found 32 data containing apology expressed by the characters. An expression of regret comes as the dominant strategy, direct apologies are expressed more than the indirect ones and assuaging the addressee's wrath is the most dominant function of the apologies. Even though making mistakes or offence is unavoidable in human communication, by expressing an apology, the speaker will be able to minimize its effect, solve the problem, and restore the threatened relationship.]]>
<![CDATA[A Portrait of Male's Struggle Quality in William Somerset Maugham's Liza Of Lambeth ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016): APRIL ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2016.7.1.15-24
<![CDATA[This article attempts to analyze William Somerset Maugham's novel entitled Liza of Lambeth. This novel tells about Liza who is loved by two men, Jim and Tom, who want Liza as their lover, so they make some efforts to get her. This article focuses on analyzing the male characters' struggle to attract Liza. The aims of this article are to describe the main characters’personality and to reveal the quality of the male characters' struggle in the novel. Dealing with the focus of the study, this study uses the theory of character as the basic concept to lead the further analysis using existentialism theory to depict the male characters' struggle, and it is supported by the theory of interpersonal attraction. For the last, the main point of this study will be directed to the theory of deconstruction which reveals that everyone who works hard is not guaranteed to be a success. Furthermore, this paper also tries to reflect some points with Islamic values.]]>
<![CDATA[An Analysis of West Country Dialect Used by Hagrid in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter ]]>
<![CDATA[ NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016): APRIL ]]>
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DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2016.7.1.25-35
<![CDATA[English, like other languages, owns distinctive varieties that enrich the language itself. Dialect is one of the interesting topics which grabs linguists' attention to analyze. This paper analyzes one of the English dialect, called West Country, in a novel entitled Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Hagrid, a gatekeeper of Hogwarts School uses unique utterances that differ from other characters' utterances in the novel. The writer employed descriptive research since the analysis is about discussing, analyzing, and finding the dialect patterns. The data of this study are taken from one of the novels in Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone. The three important features which were found in the dialect varied in terms of the phonology features, the grammatical pattern, and the vocabulary variation. This study shows that Rowling attributes the dialect to Hagrid for a reason that people from West Country are very simple and humble.]]>
