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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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FEMINISM SPIRIT’S REFLECTIONS ON ‘JORDAN O’NEIL’ IN G.I JANE MOVIE Juli Yohana Zebua and Sri Minda Murni
LINGUISTICA Vol 4, No 2 (2015): (APR-JUNE)
Publisher : State University of Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v4i2.6672

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This study deals with feminism Spirit’s reflections on ‘Jordan O’Neil’ in G.I Janemovie. The study is conducted by using descriptive qualitative approach. Theobjectives of the study are to find out kinds of oppression faced by O’Neil and herfeminism spirit’s reflections in term of oppression that she had faced. The data arecollected from dialogues and scenes in the movie. The object of the study isJordan O’Neil as the female main character. The study revealed that there arethree major oppressions faced by O’Neil according to Young’s theory: beingmarginalized,exploited and experiencing powerlessness. Feminism Spirit’sreflections on Jordan O’Neil in term of oppression that she had already faced arethree major parts: being persistent, independent, and courageous.
ILLOCUTIONARY ACT ON ALEX’S DIALOGUE IN MOVIE MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED Fransisca Fransisca; Sortha Silitonga
LINGUISTICA Vol 2, No 1 (2013)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v2i1.714

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ABSTRACT This research deals with the analysis of illocutionary act on Alex’s dialogue in movie Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. The objectives of the study are to find types of illocutionary act, the most dominant type, and the reason why the most dominant type occurs. The research on this thesis was carried out on descriptive qualitative design. The sources of data were derived from the script of Alex’s dialogue. The data were analyzed based on Yule’s theory and they were classified into five types namely; representative, directive, commissive, expressive and declarative. The most dominant type of illocutionary act used there is representative. The total percentage is: representative 42.90%, directive 38.26%, commissive 3.19%, expressive 12.75%, and declarative 2.90%. Representative becomes the most dominant type because there are many elements of representative used such as arguing, asserting, denying, informing and describing. Keywords: Pragmatics, Speech Act, Illocutionary Act, Madagascar 3: Europe’s            Most    Wanted.
PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES IN WOMAN COSMETICS ADVERTISEMENT OF SKIN WHITENING PRODUCT ON TELEVISION COMMERCIAL Dewi Anjani Purba and Sumarsih
LINGUISTICA Vol 6, No 4 (2017): (OCT-DEC)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v6i4.7596

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This research is aimed at describing persuasive strategies in woman cosmetics advertisement, elaborating the ways of the strategies are used and investigating the reason for the use of strategies. The study is based on a descriptive qualitative method, The researcher analyzed through describing and explaining data based on persuasive strategies by Aristotle (1854).There are about 50 samples of woman cosmetics in skin whitening product from different brand. Those advertisements are in the form of video taken from the official website of the product, youtube, and watching the advertisement in television. The result of this study found that there were 32 utterances that categorized as Ethos, 12 as Pathos, and 6 as Logos. There are two process happen in this persuasive strategies,The Elaboration Likelihood Model (Central & Peripheral Route) and Heuristic Systematic Model (Heuristically Processing & Systematically Processing). Central Route 31, Peripheral Route 19. HeuristicallyProcessing 12 and Systematically Processing 38. Reasons for the use of Central Route in the advertisement should be relevant, any facts. Peripheral Route, irrelevant, and no fact. Heuristically Processing, message by expert or endorse by artist, not always giving facts. Systematically Processing, relevant, motivate the costumers, any facts.
POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY TOBA BATAK SELLERS IN SAMOSIR Yohana Siregar; Rahmah Rahmah
LINGUISTICA Vol 3, No 4 (2014)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v3i4.1810

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ABSTRACT   This study deals with politeness strategies used by toba batak sellers in Samosir. The objectives of this study were (1) to describe the types of  politeness strategies were used by Toba Batak sellers in Samosir, (2) to investigate the type of politeness strategy was mostly used describe the reasons, (3) to describethe roles of politeness to Toba Batak society, and (4) to describe the implication of politeness strategies. The data of this study were the language of conversation between Toba Batak sellers and their buyers. This study applied descriptive quantitative method. The findings show that there are four types of Politeness Strategies used by Toba Batak Sellers in Samosir, namely: Bald on record4 utterances (2.53%), Off record17 utterances (10.75%), Positivepoliteness 129 utterances (81.64%) and Negativepoliteness 8 utterances (5.06%). Positivepoliteness is the most dominant type of Politeness Strategies used by Toba Batak sellers in Samosir. Keyword        :Politeness Strategies, Toba Batak Sellers, Samosir.
THE TRANSLATION METHODS USED IN AN INDONESIA FOLKTALE ‘PUTRI LOPIAN’ CHRONIKA ROSIANNA SIREGAR; Fauziah Khairani Lubis; Feriyanti Elina Gultom
LINGUISTICA Vol 9, No 2 (2020): Vol. 9, No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v9i2.18946

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This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was taken from the folklore book and interviews with the translator of the folktale Putri Lopian. The technique for analyzing the data is descriptive qualitative research. The results of this research showed that there were 9% sentences by literal translation, 10 sentences by semantic translation, 5% sentences by adaptation translation, 31% sentences by free translation, 1% sentence by idiomatic translation and 10% sentences by communicative translation. The total number of sentences from the data consisted of 76% sentences. It was found there were seven out of eight types of translation methods Literal, Faithful, Semantic, Adaptation, Free, Idiomatic and Communicative uses based on the text in the Folktale. The reason why the translator used free translation as the dominant method was that he did not follow any theories or approaches of translation when he was translating the text; he thought that the audience was a child. so that he arranged the language to be easy to understand.  Keywords: folktale book; translation methods; text
IMPACT OF METRICAL PROSODY ON PERFORMANCES Adi Putra Wijaya and Sri Minda Murni
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.v4i1.6663

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This thesis is about testing Frederick Turner and Ernst Pöppel’s claim that suggestmetrical poem tends to measure three seconds in terms of psychological limitwhen it is performed aloud. The objective of the study is to present metricalpoems as the new data to test their claim by using corpus analysis. Hereby, theresearcher uses publicly available 28 read-aloud poems from poetryoutloud.orgby using Praat to find the duration of each metrical line. The findings indicate thatthere are 18 English metrical poems with 314 lines in total, supported by metricaltree analysis, meanwhile there are 10 poems which are free verse and found that1) most lines have iamb feet, 2) 10 of the metrical pattern of the poems are iambicpentameter, whereas others are in diverse meter, 3) there is no psychological limiton the duration of metrical lines in performance as the researcher only founds62.73% that fit to the 3 seconds of temporal window based on the analysis in thecorpus of 314 metrical lines. This study has shown what Frederick Turner andErnst Pöppel claim is not methodologically proven.
THE USE OF PROCESS IN JUZ AMMA OF HOLY QURAN Ulfian Haitami; Meisuri Meisuri
LINGUISTICA Vol 1, No 2 (2012)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v1i2.688

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Abstract One aim of this article is to show through a concrete example how speech function and speech role used in Holy Quran. The texts were taken from the verses in Juz Amma of Holy Quran. All surahs in Juz Amma of Holy Quran were taken as the data by using dexcriptive qualitative method. The result shows that the six types of process are found in the verses in Juz Amma of Holy Quran. Material Process  is dominantly used because many surahs in Juz Amma of Holy Quran contain about action, activity, things that are doing or happened physically, bodily, and materially.   Keywords: Juz Amma of Holy Quran, process, transitivity
FIGURATIVE MEANING IN ALANI HAPOGOSAN MOVIE Wantika Br Dabutar and Sumarsih
LINGUISTICA Vol 6, No 2 (2017): (APR-JUNE)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v6i2.7585

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This study deals with the Figurative Meaning in Alani Hapogosan Movie. The objectives of the study are to describe the types of figurative language used in Alani Hapogosan Movie, the dominant type of the figurative language and the cultural values of the movie itself. This study was conducted by descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected from the Alani Hapogosan by transcribing them. In analyzing the data, there are 4 types of figurative language were used. The most dominant used is Metaphor 25 (44,64%), the second is Idioms 18 (32,14%), the third is Proverbs 11 (19,64%), the last is Metonymy 2 (3,57%) and there was not Irony occured in Alani Hapogosan movie. There were 8 cultural values that occured in the movie: Kinship (Kekerabatan), Religion (Religi), Wealth (Hamoraon), Honor (Hasangapon), Progress (Hamajuon), Law (Hukum), Guardianship (Pangayoman), Conflict (Konflik). And there was a cultural values that didn’t occur in Alani Hapogosan movie. It is Have Many Children (Hagabeon).
POLITENESS PRINCIPLES IN BARRACK OBAMA’S INTERVIEW Conny Elisabeth; Willem Saragih
LINGUISTICA Vol 3, No 1 (2014)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/jalu.v3i1.1216

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ABSTRACT This study was focused on the types of politeness principles. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data were the transcript of Barrack Obama’s interviews which were downloaded from internet. The findings showed that there were 31 utterances which contained 6 types of politeness principles. Obama tended to use the expressions of agreement maxim (51,61%), approbation maxim (22,58%), generosity maxim (12,9%), tact maxim (6,45%), modesty maxim (3,22%), and sympathy maxim (3,22%). The most dominant type of politeness principles was agreement maxim which means that Obama tried to minimize disagreement between self and others and maximize agreement between self and others. Keyword :  politeness principles, types of politeness principles, interview.
The Meaning of Tepak Sirih Tradition In Tanjungbalai Malay Wedding Ceremony Ade Irma Marpaung; Zainuddin Zainuddin; Busmin Gurning
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.v8i1.12744

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This study is concerned at finding the meanings of Tepak Sirih tradition in Tanjungbalai Malay wedding ceremony. either it is the meaning of offering tepak sirih and the meanings that found in all objects that needed to practice tepak sirih tradition. This study also concerned on how and why the meanings realized in practicing tepak sirih. The research method used in this paper is descriptive qualitative method which is related to the grounded theory where the meanings are elaborated by using Roland Barthes’s Semiology Theory. The interview was assisted by two interviewees who are expert about Tanjungbalai Malay culture and tradition and they are the speakers in every ceremony of Malay in Tanjungbalai. The results showed that offering tepak sirih have different meaning in different event. Merisik, meminang and Hempang pintu are three events that use tepak sirih tradition in Tanjungbalai Malay wedding but only hempang pintu which uses tepak sirih in the wedding ceremony.  The writer found There were 11 dennotative meanings, 7 connotative meanings and two myths in all objects that needed in doing tepak Sirih tradition. The reason Tepak sirih is seen as the tool of communication or the opening speech in Tanjungbalai Malay wedding ceremony lies on the history of Tanjung balai Malay living in the past.Keywords: Semiotic or Semiology, Tepak sirih, Tanjungbalai Malay

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