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An Analysis of John Smith’s Character in The Novel “I am Number Four” Nopriansah1 Nopriansah1; Widya Astuti
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 1 (2018): Januari
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In I am Number Four novel by James Frey and Jobie Hughes, there is a main character named John Smith. He is 15 years old and at his age, he is in puberity phase which his characters are influenced by people around him. This research was conducted using psychosocial study. The purposes of this study are to analyze what the factors that influence John Smith’s characters and what the psychosocial problems that emerge in the development of John Smith’s character. The method used was qualitative descriptive method. Data were collected by using content analysis techniques. Based on the findings, that each character of John Smith is influenced by biological factor, familial factor and cultural and situational factor. The character of the biological factor is the genetic character that john smith gets from his grandfather. The character of the familial factor is a character that he imitates from Henri as his adoptive father. The last is the character of cultural and situational factor, this is a character that he gets through the interaction with the people around him and the situation he faces. The psychosocial problems that emerge in the development of John Smith’s character are the emotional problems that he feels, those are; fear, temprament and melancholic. Keywords: Psychosocial, Character, I Am Number Four Novel.
AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING DIPHTHONGS AND LONG VOWELS BY THE STUDENTS AT ALIYAH KINDERGARTEN Yovika Sari
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 2 (2018): Juli
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The aims of the study are to know how many diphthongs and long vowels that can be mastered by the students at Aliyah Kindergarten and to investigate the difficulties in mastering diphthongs and long vowels experienced by the students at Aliyah Kindergarten. This research is descriptive qualitative research where the researcher collects the data observation, recording, taking notes, and analyzing based on Abdul Chaer (2003). Based on the obtained result, it can be concluded that there are 3 words of diphthongs that can be mastered by the students such as five, phone and here, while there are 2 words of diphthongs that are difficult to say, such as are grape and pear. Then, where are 3 word long vowels can be mastered by the students such as door, bee, and zoo, while the most difficult words spoken by the students are car and bird. Keywords: Diphthongs, Long Vowels, Phonology, Kindergarten.
THE ASPERGER SYNDROME IN ALAN TURING CHARACTER ON THE IMITATION GAME FILM Silvia Erlin Aditya S; noti Aprianti
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 2 (2018): Juli
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The aims of the study is to analyze the Asperger syndrome in Alan Turing character on The Imitation Game film. This research has two objectives: first, to describe the characteristic of the Asperger Syndrome in Alan Turing character on The Imitation Game film. Second, to reveal the verbal language problems of the Asperger Syndrome in Alan Turing character on The Imitation Game film. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. It is concerned with the description of the data in the form of conversation on The Imitation Game film based on Tony Attwood theories of characteristic and verbal language problems of Asperger syndrome. Based on the obtained result, it can be concluded that Asperger Syndrome is the dominant characteristic of Alan Turing character in The Imitation Game film namely the difficulties communication and the controlling of emotions. While the minimal characteristics are difficulties a making friends and often teased by other children. And then, the dominant types of verbal language problems found is the literal interpretation. Keywords : Alan Turing , Asperger Syndrome, Film, The Imitation Game
TEACHERS’ INSTRUCTION USED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS AT MTs PANCASILA KOTA BENGKULU AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH FUNCTIONS Detti Lismayanti; Okti Liani
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 2 (2018): Juli
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The aims of this research are: 1) to know the speech functions manifested in English teachers’ instruction at MTs Pancasila Kota Bengkulu, and 2) to infer the dominant speech function used by English teachers at MTs Pancasila Kota Bengkulu. The design of this research is qualitative by applying descriptive method. The subjects of this research are two English teachers in MTs Pancasila Kota Bengkulu. The data was collected using recording and observation techniques. Besides that, the procedure of data analysis are; data reduction, data display, drawing conclusion and verification. All of the data that have classified was interpreted concerned with the description of the situation. The result of this research showed that: 1) the speech functions manifested in English teachers’ instruction at MTs Pancasila Kota Bengkulu were about 102 of speech function that summarized into 48 utterances, and 2) the dominant speech function used by English teachers at MTs Pancasila Kota Bengkulu is directive function, which are 61% utterances. Finally, in great expectation by applying this research data analysis, English teacher can see the benefits and understand how to use the speech function in the teaching-learning process. Keywords: Speech Function, Teachers’ Instruction
AN ANALYSIS OF SWEARWORDS USED BY KING GEORGEVI IN KING’S SPEECH FILM (A PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDY) Merry Rullyanti; Latifah Khomairoh
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 2 (2018): Juli
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Swearing is an action doing by people contain with rude and harsh words as the expression of stong emotion. This study aimed to describe the swearwords that used by King George VI in King’s Speech film. This is a historical film about King George VI and his daily life with many problems that make him take it especially in empire. The purposes of this study were: (1) to find out the kinds of swearwords that used by the King George VI (2) to know the factors that made him used swearwords (3) to analyze the situation when he used swearwords. The data were collected through the transcript of King’s Speech film. Spradley’s domain analysis, taxonomic analysis, componential analysis were used for analyzing the data in this research. The research finding showed that: (1) The highest swearwords that used by the King George VI in King’s Speech film are death term and the lowest are animal and mother in law term (2) The most factor that made him used swearwords are anger and then the lowest factor is humor. (3) Swearing as the way of the King to express his strong emotion by used rude words. And then, swearwords are only used by the King in certain situation and place such as in his physician’s building. Keywords: Swearwords, King George VI, King’s Speech film.
An Analysis of Lexical Cohesion Used by Donald Trump’s Inauguration Speech “The United States will be The First” (2017) Merry Rullyanti; heni sriwigati
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 2 (2018): Juli
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In this research, the researcher discusses the using of lexical cohesion in inauguration speech by Donald Trump on January, 20, 2017. This research aimed to know kinds of lexical cohesion appear in inauguration text, and also to know the associative meaning used in inauguration speech.The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method in this research and applied Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesion to find out the lexical cohesion devices utilized in the speech text. And then, the researcher applied Geoffrey Leech’s theory of types of associative meaning to find out types of associative meaning used in the inauguration speech. Spredley’s domain analysis, taxonomic and componential analysis used for analyzing the data.The result of this research show the lexical cohesion devices utilized in the inauguration speech text are reiteration (repetition, synonym, near synonym, and superordinate) and collocation. While, the associative meaning types utilized in inauguration speech text are connotative meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning and collocative meaning. Keywords: Donald Trump, Lexical Cohesion, Speech.
Liberal Feminism in the Little Women Novel by Louisa May Alcott (1868) Selvi Eka Putri; Yenni Rosana
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 1 (2018): Januari
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The Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a fictional novel, the setting during the civil war period in America in the 19th century. This novel tells the story of the March family who face so many challenges in their life. This study aims to analyze the March family members’ characters and find out how the women in March family were struggling to solve the difficulties in their life using the liberal feminism theory, which prioritizes women's freedom in achieving their rights. Following the theory, the women characters in this novel were classified into two themes. The first theme is leadership which including being a leader and being an influential figure. The second theme is independence, which is also divided into being independent thinkers and independent to support themselves and family. Keywords: Women, Struggle, Little Women Novel, Liberal Feminism theory
THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NOVEL AND THE FILM OF HARRY POTTER “THE DEATHLY HALLOWS” Maranaek Pemberian Silaban; nopriansah nopriansah
Literary Criticism Vol 4 No 2 (2018): Juli
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This study aimed to describe the defamiliarization in Paulo Coelho’s novel entitled “The Alchemist”. Lack of textual study and formalism use was become the common problem why this thesis were made. Formalism believe that meaning itself contained in form of text. Therefore, the author of this research take “A Defamiliarization of the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho” as the title. The purpose of this study were: (1) to know the use of defamiliarization, (2) to understand the meaning of defamiliarization in this novel. A qualitative descriptive method was adopted to conduct this study. Several data that has been gathered were archived. Using domain to recognize the data classify, then taxonomy to find the most frequent data and componential were used to make the conclusion. After separating and classify the word, the author uses Viktor defamiliarization to find the strange and interpret the meaning. Defamiliarization was used in Coelho’s novel and meaning that separated into two forms, connotative and denotative. As the conclusion, the researcher found that defamiliarization used to deceive the reader and perceive the reader from the common words or sentence or meaning. The most frequent data of the defamiliarization was strange and the most frequent meaning used were connotative. Keywords: Defamiliarization, Formalism, Meaning, Text, the Alchemist.
INTERPERSONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS IN SPEECHES OF MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF INDONESIA Ria Angraini; Mirna Dwi Effrianti
Literary Criticism Vol 7 No 1 (2020): Literary Criticism
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This research aimed to determine the types and the most dominant of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in speeches of the minister for foreign affairs of Indonesia. This research was designed by using descriptive qualitative method. The object of this research was 10 speech scripts of the minister for foreign affairs of Indonesia. The instrument in this research was a table checklist of the types of interpersonal metadiscourse markers based on Hyland theory 2005. The results of this research showed that all of types of interpersonal metadiscourse markers emerged in speeches of the minister for foreign affairs of Indonesia. Those types consisted of hedges (probably, possibility, possible, uncertain), boosters (of course, beyond, certainly, clearly, believe, indeed), attitude Markers (honored, biggest, important, agreed, interest), self-mentions (I, Me, My, We) and engagement markers (you, let, recall, question, thank you). Meanwhile the most dominant type of Interpersonal metadiscourse markers is self-mention. It is proven by the emergence of 137 self-mention in speeches of the minister for foreign affairs and particularly the use of first-person pronoun assisted the speaker to find accessible way for audiences to comprehend the context. Keywords: Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers, Speech, The Minister for Foreign Affairs
AN ANALYSIS ON FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN ROBERT FROST’S POETRIES BY ROLAND BARTHES AND JULIA KRISTEVA THEORY Detti Lismayanti; Feni Aryensi
Literary Criticism Vol 7 No 1 (2020): Literary Criticism
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Lack of understanding of people about the analysis of poetry and considered analysis is a difficult thing. Researcher focus on three poems, love, and question; Fire and ice, and stopping word ins Snowy Evening. This poem is chosen because his poetry work and is Bild by various figurative language than any other poetry. In addition, the poem also give advice on responsibility and respect. They are four research questions in this study to discuss:1) the types of figurative language used in the chosen point 2) the meaning of the select poem. 3) the theme of poetry 4) the message that can be draw from the poem. The domina figures of speech used in Robert Frost’s poem is selected? To conduct this research, researcher used the theory of Roland Bathes and Julia Kristeva with a structural approach that analysis figurative language in Robert Frost poem. 1) the research finds the figurative language used in the select Robert Frost form; such as symbol, parallelism, climax, personification, metaphor, repetition, inversion, and hyperbole. In addition, researchers also found the dominant figurative language. The dominant figurative language the Robert Frost uses in poetry is a symbol. 2) the meaning contained in the poetry of Robert Esek Hs a certain meaning and purpose to be conveyed to the reader according to what is going on at that time. 3) Robert Frost’s poetries is Frost who stands at the intersection of 19th century American poetry and modernism. 4) Robert Frost’s poetries message to be conveyed in the form of how our attitude chooses the way of life.

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