Lexicon
Lexicon, Journal of English Language and Literature, is an open access, peer reviewed, academic journal published by the English Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada in cooperation with the English Studies Association in Indonesia (ESAI). It is devoted primarily to the publication of studies on English language and literature. It publishes original articles written exclusively in English twice a year in April and October. Manuscript submission is free of charge and open all year round to any author all across the globe.
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<![CDATA[The Translation Strategies of News Articles on Universitas Gadjah Mada Official Website ]]>
<![CDATA[Dea Levana]]>;
<![CDATA[Amin Basuki]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 8, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v8i2.72812
<![CDATA[This research examines the translation strategies applied in the translation of Indonesian articles published on the official website of Universitas Gadjah Mada English into English. The data were collected from 15 articles published in Bahasa Indonesia on the website and their English translations. The analysis and categorization were based on the news translation theory proposed by Bielsa and Bassnett (2009). The results show that all the news translation strategies were applied in the translation of the Indonesian news articles into English. Out of 227 data found in the research, 69 (30.40%) were translated using the elimination strategy, 57 (25.11%) the addition strategy, 24 (10.57%) the summarizing information strategy, 37 (16.30%) the change in the order of paragraphs strategy, and 40 (17.62%) the change of title and lead strategy.]]>
<![CDATA[Questioning Popular Culture: Future Technology In Ready Player One ]]>
<![CDATA[Muhammad Iman Rafif]]>;
<![CDATA[Achmad Munjid]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 8, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v8i2.74316
<![CDATA[This study investigates the impact of future technology products, as one of the parts of popular culture, on society in the science fiction novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011) and on our current society. The primary data of this study were taken from the novel. The results reveal that the effects of popular culture, specifically the products of technology, on modern society are enormous compared to the society in the novel. The similarities and differences between the technological aspects portrayed in the story compared to the current modern world are revealed to know what really happens and going to happen in the future.]]>
<![CDATA[Self-References in English Press Releases of Indonesian Coal Mining Companies ]]>
<![CDATA[Emma Natasha Octoveria]]>;
<![CDATA[Tofan Dwi Hardjanto]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 1 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i1.65931
<![CDATA[Corporate press release is a pivotal public relation tool, especially for those operating on a mass scale and have high risks, such as for coal mining companies. They are aimed to effectively function in both maintaining a good public image and minimize public backlash regarding companies’ operation. Considering the importance of press releases, how companies employ careful linguistic choices in press releases is worth exploring. One of the aspects to analyze is the use of self-references, in both forms and the use. In this research, the forms of self-references in corporate press releases are investigated. The metadiscourse functions of self-references employed in their press releases also become matters of discussion. The data were obtained from English press releases of two Indonesian coal mining companies, PT Adaro Energy Tbk (Adaro) and PT Bumi Resources (Bumi) from the year 2019 to 2020. These data were quantitatively analyzed with a concordance software named WordSmith Tool (Scott, 2004) that enables a concordance feature to discover the frequencies of self-references used by Adaro and Bumi in their press releases. To discover the use of self-references used by Adaro and Bumi in their press releases, a qualitative analysis was conducted. Specifying on the metadiscourse functions, a taxonomy of writer-reader interactions by Adel (2006) was employed. The result shows that forms of self-references in press releases of Adaro and Bumi are different, despite both operating under the same industry. Moreover, it is discovered that different forms of self-references in press releases are used differently in metadiscourse functions.]]>
<![CDATA["Joe Biden is a corrupt politician!": Impoliteness in Donald Trump’s Tweets ]]>
<![CDATA[Fithrotul Izzah]]>;
<![CDATA[Thomas Joko Priyo Sembodo]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 1 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i1.66685
<![CDATA[This study aims at investigating impoliteness strategies in 351 tweets taken from Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account (@realDonaldTrump) from the first presidential debate to the Election Day of the 2020 United States presidential election. The current study employed Bousfield’s (2008) taxonomy of impoliteness strategies to analyze the data. There are 368 occurrences of eleven impoliteness strategies across 351 tweets. The most common impoliteness strategy is use inappropriate identity markers (23.59%), followed by threaten/frighten (21.13%) and condescend, scorn, and ridicule (20.59%). These strategies were employed to attack and discredit Trump’s political opponents as well as attracting prospective voters. On the other hand, two impoliteness strategies, namely hinder/block and enforce role shift, were not identified in the tweets. The results indicate that Donald Trump’s tweets exhibited impoliteness and that it played quite a significant role as a means of political campaign during the 2020 United States Presidential Election.]]>
<![CDATA[Lexical Error Analysis of Indonesian-English Translation of Texts in Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum ]]>
<![CDATA[Ahimsa W. Swadeshi]]>;
<![CDATA[Adi Sutrisno]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 8, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v8i2.67886
<![CDATA[The current research aims to examine lexical errors in Indonesian-English translated texts in Museum Dewantara Kirti Griya. The classification of Lexical Errors proposed by Legenhausen (1975, as cited in James, 2013) is applied in analysing the texts. From 43 texts, the result indicates that there are 88 errors, classified into formal errors (62,5%) and semantic errors (37,5%). The first one deals with the arrangement of words and phrases, while the second deals with meaning and collocation. The most common errors are about the confusion between concepts and terms. This happens when the translator meets local-cultural terms in the SL that needs extra effort to translate.]]>
<![CDATA[The Production of Conversational Humor by Flouting Gricean Maxims in The IT Crowd Sitcom ]]>
<![CDATA[Ilsa Krisdwiyani]]>;
<![CDATA[Sharifah Hanidar]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 1 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i1.72803
<![CDATA[This study focuses on the Gricean maxim floutings found in the production of verbal humor by the characters in the show The IT Crowd, seasons one and two. This research aims to identify and classify the flouting of maxims, explain the rhetorical strategies employed, and the functions behind each flouting of the humorous utterances in the sitcom. Qualitative methods were used in analyzing the data, which are the humorous utterances resulted from the maxims flouting found in the first 12 episodes of the series. However, quantitative data is also taken into consideration in the analysis. In the series, a total of 102 occurrences were identified as maxim floutings. The most frequently occurring maxim flouting is of the quality maxim with 56 occurrences (54.90%).The result shows the characters produced verbal humor by flouting the conversational maxims using varied rhetorical strategies. Their most preferred rhetorical strategy is allusion, with 12 occurrences (11.70%) found in the series. It was also discovered that the characters use a variety of rhetorical strategies when they flout the maxims to achieve different communicative goals. The most frequent goal to appear is self-disclosure, with 26 data indicate the speakers flout the maxims to disclose personal information through humor.]]>
<![CDATA[A Corpus-Based Study of Writer Identities in Biology Research Articles: Clusivity and Authorial Self ]]>
<![CDATA[Luthfia Rozanatunnisa]]>;
<![CDATA[Tofan Dwi Hardjanto]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 2 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i2.65914
<![CDATA[An academic writing, especially a research article, is commonly, but vaguely considered that it has to be impersonal. In other words, there is a common discouragement to express writer identities in academic writings. Yet, it is recently discovered that personal attribution has such a significant role to display the interaction both between the authors and the readers and the authors and other researchers in the field. In this paper, I investigate the linguistic forms used to indicate writer identity in a number of selected research articles, and how they are used in terms of their clusivity as well as authorial self these linguistic forms construct. The data were taken from two reputable international journals: 10 research articles taken from Genome Biology, and the other 10 were taken from Molecular Systems Biology. These data were analyzed with the help of Wordsmith 5.0 (Scott 2008), an offline application which allows us to discover the occurrences of authorial references used in research articles and make concordances. A qualitative analysis was also conducted to examine the clusivity and the authorial self each linguistic form expresses. Classification on authorial selves was based on a taxonomy proposed by Tang & John (1999). The findings of this research are then aimed at indicating a tendency of writers in attributing themselves in academic writing, especially in biology research articles, where authors show more authority in their writing with the use of frequent authorial references expressing themselves as the recounters of the research process.]]>
<![CDATA[Birth Order Characteristics of the Penderwick Sisters in Jeanne Birdsall’s the Penderwicks Series ]]>
<![CDATA[Sarah Nurul Anggreni]]>;
<![CDATA[Rahmawan Jatmiko]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 2 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i2.65920
<![CDATA[This research analyses the middle grade series, The Penderwicks, written by Jeanne Birdsall. The object of analysis of this research is the main characters of the series, The Penderwick sisters. The objective of this research is to analyse whether or not the characteristic that the Penderwick sisters possess fit into their designated birth order characteristic that was proposed by Alfred Adler. This research also uses Murtagh John Murphy’s theory of characterisation because this theory is the one that meets the requirement to analyse works using a close reading method. The result of this assessment shows that each Penderwick sister has very distinct characteristics. However, only some of the characteristics that the Penderwick sisters possess that fit into Adler’s birth order characteristics.]]>
<![CDATA[A Transitivity Analysis of the Character's Actions in Joseph Jacobs's Fairy Tales ]]>
<![CDATA[Ahmad Faizin]]>;
<![CDATA[Hafidzatul Azizah]]>;
<![CDATA[Putu Zahra Amalia Atiyoti Jwalita]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 2 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i2.66653
<![CDATA[This study aims at examining the transitivity processes occurred in the characters’ action in Joseph Jacobs’s Fairy Tales. Language style for children literature has its distinction from other fictions. Such lexical and the dictions selection become its focus primarily at the main figure’s action. The purpose of this study is not only to provide worthwhile information particularly at the language style of literature for children in case of Joseph Jacobs’s fairy tales but also to remedy the neglected focus on the earlier studies which analyzes the mentioned object as well. This study used the methodology of descriptive qualitative research. To analyze the research objective, this study used Halliday’s transitivity theory which examines the processes of a sentence. Based on the data analysis, the results found 56 data in total contained with several processes as follows; 30 material processes, 5 mental processes, 5 behavioural processes, 4 verbalization, 3 relational processes, and an existential processes.]]>
<![CDATA[Verbal Irony in a TV Series The Office (US) Season 2 ]]>
<![CDATA[Nabila Nurul Hasyim]]>;
<![CDATA[Sharifah Hanidar]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexicon Vol 9, No 2 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v9i2.68005
<![CDATA[Verbal irony as a figurative language has been conceived in everyday life as its use is common when people communicate with each other. It enables the speaker to express negative intention towards the hearer as well as producing humor elements. This study aims to analyze verbal irony in the sitcom The Office (US) from Pragmatics perspective, which focuses on the identification of its forms and their manifestations in arousing humor. The data of this study were collected from season 2 of The Office (US) that consists of 22 episodes. They were observed, transcribed, analyzed, and classified into the category proposed by Gibbs (2000). The utterances that contain humor were marked and analyzed by applying the theory proposed by Garmendia (2007). The result shows that from 97 occurrences that were identified, all five types of verbal irony (sarcasm, jocularity, rhetorical question, hyperbole, and understatement) were found, with sarcasm as the most frequently used type. The analysis also revealed that the disparity that emerges from verbal irony leads to humor creation.]]>
