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Linguistica
ISSN : 23015152     EISSN : 26557517     DOI : 10.24114
LINGUISTICA Journal is a quarterly publication presenting articles on Linguistics. The contents include analyses, studies, applications of theories, research reports and reviews
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PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES OF SAMOSIR PROMOTION IN “Visit Samosir” FACEBOOK PAGE Renni Sagala and Yeni Erlita
LINGUISTICA Vol 6, No 3 (2017): (JUL-SEP)
Publisher : State University of Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v6i3.7590

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This study deals with the Persuasive strategies of Samosir promotion in visit samosir facebook page. The objective of the study are to find out the types of persuasive technique of samosir promotion in visit samosir facebook page, and to describe the strategies of persuasive of samosir promotion in visit samosir facebook page. This study was conducted by using Descriptive qualitative method. The data was collected from http://visitsamosir.com. There were 60 status from May of 2016 to May of 2017.The findings found that there are only six from seven types of persuasive technique are used in visit samosir status and they are rationalization (17 status), identification (3 status), suggestion (32 status), compensation (6 status), projection (2 status), and displacement (1 status). And the strategy of persuasive that used in visit samosir facebook page were Logos, Phatos, Ethos. Mostly, the user use the logical reason (Logos). It caused the user need to show the fact or logic reason to get belief from the visitor. So, the visitor become interest to visit the tourism
COHESIVE DEVICES USED IN THE HEADLINE NEWS OF THE JAKARTA POST Vany Tarsidasari Jambak; Busmin Gurning
LINGUISTICA Vol 3, No 1 (2014)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v3i1.1220

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ABSTRACT The study deals with the types of cohesive devices used in Headline News of The Jakarta Post. The objectives of study are to identify and to derive the types of cohesive devices dominantly used in headline news of the Jakarta Post. The data are taken from headline column of The Jakarta Post from online edition. There are seven articles which are analyzed in this study. This research is conducted by using descriptive method. The findings show that there are 162 references, 4 substitutions, 34 Ellipsis, 349 conjunctions, and 36 lexical cohesion occur in this study. The most dominant type of cohesive devices is conjunction because the writer would like to connect ideas within the text to make its readers easy to understand. Then the writer would like to make their news more informative. Keyword        :  cohesion, cohesive device, The Jakarta Post.
COHESIVE DEVICES IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ RESEARCH ARTICLES Triana Triana; Amrin Saragih; Marisi Debora
LINGUISTICA Vol 8, No 1 (2019): JAN-MARCH
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v8i1.12748

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This study deals with investigating cohesive devices in English department students’ research articles. This study aims at discovering types of cohesive devices and explaining why they are used in English department students’ research articles. Qualitative content analysis was utilized as a research design in this study. The data were in the form of clauses obtained from introduction part of 5 articles written by English department students. From the data analysis, it was discovered that there are 4 types of cohesive devices found namely reference, substitutions, ellipsis, and conjunction totaling to 593 occurrences with the dominant type is reference totaling to 419 instances (70.66%). The factors affecting the use of cohesive devices are the number of sentences and clauses in the articles. Article with high cohesion tend to have more sentences than the others with middle and low cohesion. The highly cohesive texts employ more cohesive devices because there are more ideas to connect in relation to the number of sentences. Keywords: cohesive devices, research articles, content analysis
THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN NARUTO’S COMIC SCRIPT M. Afdillah Damanik; Busmin Gurning
LINGUISTICA Vol 3, No 3 (2014)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v3i3.1805

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ABSTRACT The study deals with the types of illocutionary acts used in Naruto’s comic script. The objectives of study were to find out the illocutionary acts, describe the most dominant type of illocutionary acts and elaborate the reason for the illocutionary acts. The data were the dialogue of Naruto to his addressees in comic Naruto. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method and limited on the utterances produced by Naruto to his addresses. The findings show that there are 81 Representatives utterances,28 Expressives,27 Directives, 5 commissives and 1 Declarative. There a son of Representatives most dominantly used is Naruto gave more statements and information about his believes and the facts of the situation in the story. He often represented his believes about what happens to be the case of the conversation with others characters in the story. He also described himself and the situation of the story.   Keyword :  speech acts, illocutionary acts, comic.
PERSONALITY TRAITS OF BABY IN BABY DRIVER MOVIE Prasetyo Prasetyo; Meisuri Meisuri; Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan
LINGUISTICA Vol 9, No 1 (2020): JAN - MARCH
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v9i1.17764

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This study aimed at analyzing the kind of traits which represented by Baby in Baby Driver movie by Edgar Wright. The study of Characterization has been thrived in recent centuries. Personality Traits study in a movie is an interesting way to develop and identify some character in movies. The study used descriptive qualitative method. The data of this study were dialogues and statements from Baby which related to the Personality Traits theory in the movie script. The source of the data was Baby Driver movie. The findings of the Big Five theory analyzed by described the utterances and statements from Perlocutionary Act findings. It was found that there were five traits represented by Baby along the movie. They were (1) Introvert/Extrovert, (2) Neuroticism, (3) Conscientiousness, (4) Openness to Experience, and (5) Agreeableness. This study also proved that conflicts always happened in human being, especially teenager. At one time, a person chose to be introvert and in the next day he or she chose to be extrovert. Characterization learning was believed as a tool to differ one character of a movie or real-life individual from another.Keywords: Personality Traits, Speech Act, Perlocutionary Act.
TYPES OF PROCESS IN CHILDREN’S SONG LYRICS OF NURSERY RHYMES Lanayot Hutabalian and Elia MasaGintings
LINGUISTICA Vol 4, No 1 (2015): (JAN-MARCH)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v4i1.6658

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This study deals with types of process in children’s song lyrics of nursery rhymes.The objectives of the study were to find out the types of process used in children’ssong lyrics of nursery rhymes, to determine the dominant type of process used inchildren’s song lyrics and to describe the implication of types of process used inchildren’s song lyrics. This research was conducted by using descriptivequalitative research. The source of data was derived from children’s song lyrics ofnursery rhymes. The data were taken from the processes used in those song lyrics.There were 233 clauses in the children’s song lyrics of nursery rhymes. The resultof the analysis showed that all types of process used in children’s song lyrics ofnursery rhymes; material process with 124 clauses (53.22%) followed relationalprocess with 47 clause (20.17%), mental process with 25 clauses (10.73%), theverbal process with 24 clauses (10.30%), existential process with 11 clauses(4.72%) and behavioral process with 2 clauses (0.86%). The dominant types ofprocess used in children’s song lyrics of nursery rhymes are material process with124 occurrences. It means that in the song lyrics contain or told about activity,action or event that are happened or doing which happen outside the humanbeings.
TRANSITIVITY IN BARRACK OBAMA’S SPEECHES Henny Fauziah Harahap; Sumarsih Sumarsih
LINGUISTICA Vol 1, No 2 (2012)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v1i2.676

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Abstract   The objectives of this research were to find out the types of processes, participants, and circumstances, the dominant types of processes, participants and circumstances, and the implication of the dominant process, participant and circumstance in Barrack Obama’s speeches. It was a descriptive quantitative design. The analysis was based on two speeches of Barrack Obama, they were Election Night Victory Speech (November 4th, 2008) in Grant Park, Chicago, Illionis and Obama Inaugural Address (January 20th, 2009) in Washington DC and there were 525 processes, 618 participants, and 204 circumstances in 525 clauses. The result showed the       most dominant process was Material process (54,6%), the most dominant of participant was Actor (31,1%), and the most dominant of circumstance was (46,1%). Material Process is the most dominant process because it indicates activities that happen in the outside world of human beings. Furthermore, the speeches of Barrack Obama told about many activities that can be done        to make America better. So, the physical or action verbs are mostly used as the representation of the physical experience of human beings. As the process controls the participant so the most dominant participant which appeared in the analysis was Actor. And the last, the most dominant   circumstance appeared in this analysis was Location. It was caused Obama mentioned more both place and time in his speeches as the implication of the most dominant process, participant, and circumstance.   Keywords: Speech; transitivity
Politeness Strategies in 2014 Presidential Debates between Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto Marischa Dwi Fergina and Sri Juriati Ownie
LINGUISTICA Vol 4, No 4 (2015): (OCT-DEC)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v4i4.6692

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This study analyzed the politeness strategies employed by Joko Widodo andPrabowo Subianto in 2014 Presidential Debates. This study used descriptivequalitative method. Kothari (2004:2) states that Descriptive research includessurveys and fact-finding enquiries of different kinds. In this study the writerdescribed the utterances of president candidates debate into written text. Themajor purpose of descriptive research is description of the state of affairs as itexists at present. The instrument of collecting data is video recording of DebatCapres Cawapres Jokowi Jk- Prabowo Hatta at Metro TV on July 5, 2014.Particular attention is given to candidate’s use of bald on record, positivepoliteness, negative politeness, off record and do not do speech act or do the FTA(face threatening act) as defined by Brown and Levinson theory. The focus of thepaper is on the types of politeness strategies that used in debate, the dominant typeof politeness strategies, and the reason of dominant type usage in debate. Theresult showed that the most dominant type is Positive politeness (61,53%). Thenthere was also Negative politeness (30,76%), On record (3,84%), Off record(3,84%) and do not do the FTA (0%). The president candidates mostly usedpositive politeness because want to reduce face-threatening act besides how thetwo candidates can be conveyed smoothly without making one party feelsthreatened.
An Analysis of Conversational Implicature in Smart Fm’s Radio Talk Shows Irma B. Pakpahan; Sumarsih Sumarsih
LINGUISTICA Vol 2, No 4 (2013)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v2i4.943

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ABSTRACT The objectives of this research were to find out the two types of conversational implicature, namely: generalized conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature and the dominant one used in Smart FM’s Radio talk shows. This research was conducted by using qualitative descriptive design. It took fifty eight conversations taken from Smart FM’s Radio talk shows which were on air from April 3rd until 24th 2012. The result of analyzing found two types of conversational implicature were used in the talk shows in Smart FM, they were: generalized conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature. The findings of data analysis showed that the total numbers of conversational implicature from the two types were: 25 (62,5%) generalized conversational implicature and 15 (37,5%) particularized conversational implicature. It means that generalized conversational implicature is the most dominant type of conversational implicature used in Smart FM’s Radio talk shows. It is 62,5%. Generalized conversational implicature is dominant because it indicates that when the interviewees answer the question, they usually used the clear answer to make their partner and listeners understand what he/she talked about. It can be concluded that the dominant conversational implicature that occured in the four editions of Smart FM’s Radio Talk Shows was Generalized Conversational Implicature. It shows that the interviewee gave a strong and clear implicit meaning. Keywords: Conversational Implicture, Talk Show
MODALIZATION IN THE POLITICAL COLUMN OF TEMPO MAGAZINE Maria Betti Sinaga
LINGUISTICA Vol 7, No 4 (2018): (OCT-DEC)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v7i4.11893

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The study focuses on analyzing the use of modalization in the Political Column of Tempo Magazine. The objectives were to find out the type of modalization and to describe the use of modalization in the Political Column of Tempo magazine. The data were taken from Political Column of Tempo magazine published in June and July 2017. The source of data was Political Column in Tempo magazine. The data analysis applied descriptive qualitative research. There were 135 clauses which contained Modalization from political columns. There were two type of modalization used in the Political column namely, Probability and Usuality. The dominant type of Modalization used in Political text was Probability 97,7% then Usuality 2,93%. The probability itself was realized by modal auxiliaries and modal adjunct. The modal auxiliary which expressed the use of probability in the text was should. The value of the modalization itself was realized by medium value. The use of modalization expressed the attitude of the writer toward the proposition. The use of medium value showed the prediction of the writer about what would happen in the future and expressed the stance of the writer for what he said. Key words: Modalization, Political text, Tempo

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