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Litera
ISSN : 14122596     EISSN : 24608319     DOI : 10.21831
Core Subject : Education,
LITERA is a high quality open access peer reviewed research journal that is published by Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. LITERA is providing a platform for the researchers, academicians, professionals, practitioners, and students to impart and share knowledge in the form of high quality empirical original research papers on linguistics, literature, and their teaching.
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Backtracking Indo-European languages influence on Indonesian Purwitasari, Ana
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.77167

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Indo-European languages are the focus of this study which emphasized the influence of those languages on the Indonesian lexicon and linguistic diversity. In order to reach the goal of this work, diachronic and synchronic analysis were employed. Diachronic analysis referred to the theory of loanword form reconstruction stated by Mallory & Adams (2006) and borrowing process theory by Campbell (1998), while the synchronic analysis included loan type identification mentioned by Swe (2013). Consequently, the existence of Petjuk or Petjoh was identified as the diffusion of Dutch and Indonesian. There are also Portuguese family names which spread widely especially in East Indonesia and loanwords found. These loanwords are derived from mostly Germanic, while Indo-Iranian, Italic and Hellenic contributed also. Germanic languages, e.g. Dutch, German and English, and Portuguese as part of Italic supplied more loanwords for their long-lasting existence throughout the archipelago in the past during their colonization, while Indo-Iranian such as Sanskrit, Pali, Persian and Hindi gave their influence for coming into contact with Indonesians through trading activity. The only one Hellenic, e.g. Greek, and other Italic which are Latin and French became the donor through luxury loan for the need Indonesians acquire to translate some new terms which couldn’t be accommodated by Indonesian itself.
Multimedia system for integrated reading acceleration and assistance (SMAART) in literacy learning in high school Afiati, Laksmita Nur; Rianto, Rianto; Damaianti, Vismaia S.; Mulyaningsih, Indrya
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.85875

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This study aimed to develop the Multimedia System for Accelerated and Assisted Integrated Reading (SMAART), an interactive learning application specifically designed to support high school students with literacy disabilities. Utilizing the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model, the study only reached the development stage. This study followed a systematic development process to ensure the application's pedagogical and technical effectiveness. The analysis phase identified key literacy challenges through teacher interviews and student observations, while the design phase incorporated multimedia principles to create an engaging and accessible interface. During development, the application was built using Articulate Storyline 3, integrating text, audio, and visual elements to accommodate diverse learning needs. Expert validation was conducted with media specialists (assessing usability and design) and literacy educators (evaluating content relevance), resulting in high scores for display quality (4.6/5) and instructional effectiveness (4.4/5). User feedback highlighted the application's intuitive navigation (89% satisfaction rate), interactive exercises, and motivational multimedia components. The evaluation phase confirmed the effectiveness of SMAART as a complementary tool for literacy education, especially for students with learning disabilities. Its success underscores the potential of adaptive multimedia technology to promote inclusive education. Future research could expand testing to broader demographics and explore AI-based personalization. Ultimately, SMAART offers a scalable model for digital literacy interventions, aligning with the School Literacy Movement (GLS) initiative in Indonesia and addressing the gap in accessible learning resources for students with disabilities.
Reclaiming supremacy, negotiating modernity: Islamism and post-Islamism in post-Suharto Indonesian novels Sudibyo; Andalas, Eggy Fajar; Taufiqurrohman, Muhammad
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.86216

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Suppressed during the New Order, Indonesian Islamic literature often used Sufi symbols. Explicit Islamic expression flourished post-1998, transforming Muslim life by merging religion and entertainment. Employing qualitative method, this study analyses three post-New Order works—Jilbab Traveler, Bumi Cinta and Geni Jora—selected for their: gender-diverse authorship, commercial success, and representation of 2000–2019 Islamic-literary trends. Using close reading, the analysis identifies thematic patterns about trends in Islamic thought through textual examination of narratives/dialogue, theme codification, and critical synthesis to construct the research argument. Analysis reveals that Islamism can now be openly expressed with the emphasis of three issues: Islamic cosmopolitanism, moral agents and individual freedom. Jilbab Traveler and Bumi Cinta advocate Islamist ideas, promoting sharia enforcement—especially for Muslim minorities in non-Muslim/secular settings—and seeking to restore Islamic supremacy through exemplary protagonists. Conversely, Geni Jora reflects post-Islamist thought, emphasizing aqidah, civil rights, equality, individual freedom, and life's enjoyment.  Overall, post-New Order Islamic literature shows a greater inclination toward Islamist ideas, stressing strict sharia adherence and rejection of Western lifestyles. These works assert that Muslims must follow Sharia rigorously and resist Western influence to reclaim supremacy. While advocating religious sovereignty, they do not explicitly demand a caliphate. Some works, however, exhibit post-Islamist elements by negotiating belief with modernity, seen in celebrating individual freedom.
Reinterpreting Flaubert and Lubis in Kardjo’s sonnets “L’Éducation Sentimentale”: A transcultural intertextuality study Nurnaningrum, Sri; Umaya, Nazla Maharani; Harjito, Harjito
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.83020

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This article examines the transcultural intertextuality in Wing Kardjo’s sonnets “L’Éducation Sentimentale,” which reinterprets Gustave Flaubert’s novel with the same title and Mochtar Lubis’s novel Jalan Tak Ada Ujung. Using Julia Kristeva’s intertextuality framework,  the study examines how Kardjo adapts Lubis’s prose narrative into a sonnet form and reinterprets the thematic, narrative, and stylistic elements of Flaubert’s and Lubis’s novels. Through critical, comparative, and intertextual analyses, the research focuses on Kardjo’s innovative transformation of prose into structured poetic forms, preserving themes of love triangles, guilt, and political conflict. The results demonstrate how Kardjo repositions Lubis’s narrative within the structured form of sonnets and reframes Flaubert’s themes within Indonesia’s socio-political and cultural context. Through recontextualization and transformation, Kardjo creates a hybrid literary work that bridges French and Indonesian traditions, offering a transcultural dialogue that juxtaposes postcolonial struggles with existential disillusionment. This study concludes that Kardjo’s sonnets exemplify transcultural intertextuality as a creative process, enriching comparative literary studies and fostering cross-cultural dialogue through poetic innovation.
Gender education in the framework of Ki Hadjar Dewantara’s thought: A literature study and its relevance Nurdin, Iqbal; Pratiwi, Poerwanti Hadi; Murod, Purnama Hanan
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.85731

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Gender education is one of the efforts to promote the welfare of humanity. Many institutions prioritize the empowerment of women as a key solution to overcoming disparities between women and men in various fields. This study aims to analyze the educational thoughts of Ki Hadjar Dewantara through his work, Tembang Macapat Wasita Rini. Content analysis of Tembang Macapat Wasita Rini highlights the importance of education for women in achieving both physical and spiritual independence, self-mastery, and preparing women to make decisions in their lives that benefit their families and communities. This poem also contains moral messages urging women to maintain themselves in accordance with societal norms, thereby avoiding various dangers and being able to empower themselves according to their potential. Ki Hadjar Dewantara demonstrated wisdom in responding to the development of education in his time by supporting the ideal of women’s emancipation, balanced with an emphasis on the importance of upholding norms and values aligned with women’s natural roles within the social and cultural context of that era.
Male allyship contributing to women’s empowerment in Hidden Figures Agung, I Gusti Ayu Mahatma; Beratha, Ni Luh Sutjiati
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 3: LITERA (NOVEMBER 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.88039

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This study examined male allyship in Hidden Figures, focusing on how male characters support women’s empowerment in a racially and gender-biased workplace. Using the theory of male allyship proposed by Burrell & Morin (2025), it aimed to identify the forms of allyship and analyze their impact on women’s professional advancement. Employing qualitative content analysis, this research analyzed scenes that depict men’s supportive actions towards women facing structural discrimination. The findings revealed that male allyship took various forms, including fostering social capital through mentorship and sponsorship, confronting anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (D.E.I) pushback with confidence and facts, leveraging resources to support development opportunities, clarifying that D.E.I did not promote unqualified candidates, positioning D.E.I as a competitive advantage, being visible advocates for inclusion, and sharing narratives that highlight the tangible benefits of D.E.I. These forms of allyship empowered women by creating opportunities, removing systemic barriers, and positioning diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to organizational success. The study concluded that allyship grounded in fairness, respect, and integrity demonstrated that supporting women’s empowerment did not diminish masculinity or leadership credibility but instead strengthened collective achievement and built gender-inclusive environments.
Metamodern audience response toward Nizar Qabbani’s poetry on Instagram reels: Literary reception study Az-Zahra, Sabrina; Hasyim, Muhammad
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.81855

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This research examines the metamodern audience reception of Nizar Qabbani’s modern Arabic poetry through Instagram Reels, with a focus on the emergence of metamodern sensibilities in the response to his poetry. The study employs a reader-response approach and is multifaceted, integrating literary reception theory with the concepts of Jauss and Iser’s reception theory while also incorporating metamodern sensibilities to analyse audience responses. The analysis of audience comments reveals that the fusion of three domains (Jauss reception, Iser reception and metamodern sensibility) provides a comprehensive understanding of metamodern audience responses. The findings demonstrate that the amalgamation of Jauss and Iser’s reception categorised into the following three domains: (1) historical perception and reality of fiction, (2) horizon of expectation and implied reader, and (3) aesthetic distance and blanks, in combination with metamodern audiences, generate meaning through multiple types of responses, which researchers have categorised into various types. These categories reflect the intricate interplay between Jauss’s macro-level form of reception, Iser’s micro-level form of reception, and the articulation of metamodern sensibilities.
Place-attachment as a conservation effort in the children's story series "Bait al-Ahdhar": Lawrence Buell’s ecocritical perspective Habibullah, Moh. Rifqi; Munjiah, Ma'rifatul
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 2: LITERA (JULY 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i2.82200

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Children’s understanding of the relationship between humans and the environment is a significant factor in fostering ecological awareness, which forms the foundation for future environmental coservation efforts. This research aims to describe and identify place-attachment as an effort for environmental conservation in the Bait al-Ahdhar children's story series based on Lawrence Buell's ecocriticial perspective. The type of research used in this study is descriptive qualitative. The primary data source is the Bait al-Ahdhar children's story series by Hadil Ghanim and Walid Tahir, with additional data drawn from books, journals, and relevant scientific articles. The data collection technique involves a thorough reading and note-taking process. The data analysis technique employs the Miles, Huberman and Saldaña model, which consists of data condensation, data display, and conclusion/verification. The results of this research indicate the presence of four dimensions of place-attachment as a conservation effort in the children's story series Bait al-Ahdhar: (1) concentric areas, as evidenced by children's concern for the cleanliness of their bedrooms, house, and streets, (2) local archipelagos, as evidenced by children's concern for the school environment due to its regular use for learning and socializing, (3) the historicity of places, as evidenced by children's concern for the worsening environmental changes in the city, and (4) temporal accumulation, as evidenced by children's concern for the school environment based on learning and playing experiences in previous classes. These findings suggest that place-attachment may serve as a solution for children in environmental conservation.
Conceptual operation strategies of artificial intelligence metaphors in Indonesian mass media: A cognitive linguistic study Mansyur, Umar; Jufri, Jufri
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 3: LITERA (NOVEMBER 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i3.83275

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This study aims to analyze the conceptual operation strategy of artificial intelligence (AI) metaphors in Indonesian mass media using cognitive linguistic studies. This research uses a qualitative approach with Christopher Hart’s Cognitive Linguistic–Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS) analysis method. Data sources came from online mass media articles that have a major influence on public opinion in Indonesia. Data were collected using documentation study techniques and analyzed using four CL-CDS strategies, namely structural configuration, framing, identification, and positioning. The results indicate that AI metaphors in mass media not only frame the way humans perceive AI capabilities and functions but also reflect the ideology and power behind current technological developments. This demonstrates the use of technological ideologies to support an agenda that enlarges society’s dependence on technological systems controlled by large corporations or the state while reinforcing existing power structures. This research contributes to providing insights for media practitioners, policymakers, and academics on the effective use of metaphors in conveying information about AI while considering its ideological and social impacts. Future research recommendations include analyzing the role of social media in framing AI, as well as investigating the ethics and social impact of AI discourse in the mass media.
The role of spatial and temporal deixis in enhancing narrative understanding in Die Sommer Megawati, Sri; Triyono, Sulis; Rikfanto, Aditya
LITERA Vol. 24 No. 3: LITERA (NOVEMBER 2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/ltr.v24i3.88545

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This study investigates how spatial and temporal deixis shape readers’ understanding of Ronya Othmann’s Die Sommer (2020), a novel alternating between German and Kurdish settings and perspectives. A qualitative analysis of deictic expressions identifies forms of spatial deixis (e.g., specific place names; vertical references like “sits on the floor” vs. “starry sky above”; and dynamic movements) and temporal deixis (e.g., historical years, seasonal markers, tense shifts, and temporal adverbs). Results show spatial deixis anchors Leyla’s story in intercultural spaces, guiding reader orientation and evoking her bicultural identity amid historical conflict. Temporal deixis places events in the general political and historical context, linking personal biography to collective memory. This study presents deixis as a narrative device that enables deeper reader involvement in a transcultural storyworld. By integrating Bühler’s and Ehlich’s deixis theories with narrative analysis, it contributes to understanding narrative structure, complex intercultural dynamics, and multiple cultural perspectives in contemporary transcultural literature and narratives.

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