One of several language functions in social communication is expressing an individual’s self, revealing who an individual is or how is his/her possible personality/character. Within wider context, language may also convey a certain community identity. Language becomes a means for community representation....

This article talks about the exploitation of disourse units performed by Indonesian teenage writers in constructing teen-lit stories in bahasa Indonesia. Ten narrative texts in various genres were selected as the focus of discussion. They were analysed for types of discourse units selected by the authors...

This study aims: (1) To describe the underlying cause of culture shock on western people in Senggigi (2) To describe the impact of culture shock on western people in Senggigi. This research is a research using descriptive qualitative approach. Source of data obtained through words and actions, written...

This research examines how ergative clauses develop phases and stages in narrative genre in detective novel. As we all know that ergative clauses expose or sometimes hide the additional agent what Martin et al called as extra causer. In their nature, the extra causers derive roles in the clause such...

The discrimination in religious affair has become a global problem which is very essential to be noticed in a linguistic way, especially for conflict between Israel and Palestinians on Gaza which keep on happening for many years. This study contributes in critical discourse study by interpreting the...

Language is dynamic, social, complex, and multimodal, patterned and purposive just as all these kids of behavior. It is characterized from the language creativity emerging in the society as both linguistics and social phenomena. This article brings out the phenomenon of vulgar terms used in Indonesian...

This paper aimed to examine prepositional category followed by other elements as objects or modifier to form a prepositional phrase. There are some types of preposition in Javanese, however the writer only focus on manner, spatial and temporal preposition. Besides determining its structure, this paper...

The paper aims to discuss the result of qualitatif research about the use of code choice done by women head village. As a result, the researcher proves that choice of code in their communication consist of some types of coding even inter-language and extra-language. It also influenced by some factor...

The paper discusses non verbal behavior performed and exploited by a teacher of children with autism as part of multimodal interaction in transferring knowledge. Data were collected from one teaching session carried out by a teacher and five children with autism. Data in the forms of body language, facial...

Suprasegmental plays important role in learning English sounds, especially pronunciation, but it is very different when they are used in some fantasy, action, and sci-fi movies. The stress and intonation sometimes are pronounced out of the types of suprasegmental theories. This present study was intended...

Language is part of national culture that can be used as living recording media. In social life, the use of language is influenced by societal factor. It has emerged language variants. They can be met such as in Javanese utterance society. Dealing with that, the researcher reviews the societal factor...

Al-Mukmin Ngruki Islamic Boarding School is multilingual community. The aim of this study is to find out the language choice that used by students in the female dormitory Al-Mukmin Ngruki Islamic Boarding School. This study is belongs to Sosiolinguistics that belongs to with qualitative research approach....

Ludruk is one of the traditional arts in East Java. In ludruk, there is a unique song (kidungan), and it is accompanied by the Jula-juli song. This song is in the form of parikan. Social, political, economic, and cultural issues are portrayed in ludruk through satire, criticism, humor, and more human...

During language acquisition process, the learner will do try and error of the learning language. In Japanese class at the elementary level; the first-year student at first semester, they learned vocabularies, hiragana, katakana, and sentence patterns. For six months they learned and absorbed Japanese...

The purpose of this research is to figure out the forms of the word “when” and describe its contexts in Japanese language. This descriptive-qualitative research employed a writing technique while the data are analyzed using a distributional method. The data consist of sentences containing the word ‘when’...

Intonation, the accurate high-low tonal speech of presentation, serves a very fundamental role in a language speech community. This intonation shows pitch movement as well as intonation contour of a speech. Speech intonation within a language society is varied from one generation to the next. Such differences...

An Angkola farmer is a farmer from Angkola, South Tapanuli, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Angkola farmer has an interesting transitivity to be examined when viewed from the underlying culture. The farmer studied was 68 year old farmer. The selection of the farmer is done because the more senior means...

Balinese universal quantifiers have not been explored, particularly, by Indonesian scholars. The main purpose of current study is to investigate how Balinese adults represent the meanings of universal quantifiers in Balinese. The study employed picture selection tasks and involved thirty-seven Balinese...

In written communication, the sentences used by students tend to be less varied. The lack of variability appears in the types of sentences used in the essay, such as: the content of the sentence, the number of clauses, the predicate formers, and the nature of actor-action relationship. Based on this...

Jago temple is one of the most complete temples with reliefs among other temples in East Java. Jago Temple Relief brings the most disturbing questions related to the symbolic meaning it carries. Based on the description, this research tries to show symbolic manifestation and symbolic meaning in Relief...

In this era, the function of the language is not only for communication with each other but also can influence the views or thoughts of others to come with our thoughts. This case can be called by propaganda. Sometimes propaganda conveys a true and objective message. However, the message is often misleading...

This study aimed to describe the correlation between voice, which are passive and antipassive, and ergative language in Nusantara. This research is a qualitative research with Agih Method (Descriptive Method) which is to explain facts and with permutation technique support. To obtain data and data sources,...

This article intends to (1) describe the mixed form in the student presentation of PBSI Unipa Surabaya, (2) describe the type of code mix in the student presentation of PBSI Unipa Surabaya, and (3) describe the code mixed background in the student presentation of PBSI Unipa Surabaya. This research uses...

Stylistics is not a new term in language research. It is closely related to style. The research object of stylistic is style, language which is used in a particular context in a particular language. This research investigates some language pattern found in The Goose Thieve short story which aims to elaborate...

Literary works have been shaping how people see the world around them for hundreds of years; they have become a medium for portraying and/or criticizing a certain society in a certain period of time. One thing that has never ceased to appear in literary works is gender role and representation, which...

This writing is entitled “The variation of English Verb Phrases in English Cookbook”. The discussion is focused on the variation of English verb phrases in Cookbook. The variation of verb phrases here is some complements that follow a verb. The data used in this study is taken from English cookbook entitled...

Reading ability is one of the skills in mandarin language. High using of mandarin language leads to mandatory and additional subjects, ranging from kindergarden to vocational schools in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Indicators of reading mandarin language are measured in the form of vocabulary...

The avoidance strategy as part of a communication strategy is the effort of the language user in realizing what he thinks of when avoiding either some or all of the information that it deems inappropriate to choose a simpler form by providing sufficient information to make communication work smoothly....

The article examines the moderator’s initiation in Indonesia Lawyers Club (ILC) discussion within the framework of genre analysis. The term sub-genre initiation is one of folded discourses in ILC discussion. The study of the sub-genre initiation is aimed to leverage the audience’s response for giving...

The present study investigates Indonesian and English lexical bundles (LBs) used by Indonesian learners in their thesis abstracts. It aims to examine (1) the most common lexical bundles in the Indonesian and English undergraduate thesis abstracts, (2) similarities/differences in terms of form and functions,...

This study aims to see the phonological problem deviation of English fricative and affricate sound produced by Thai and Indonesian English learners. This sound is interesting to study since the fricative and affricate sounds system among English, Thai and Indonesian are different. Moreover, some English...

Humans are naturally born into the world in a variety of different races and tribes. Diversity and difference is one form of cultural treasures of a nation if the people live collectively in the frame of tolerance and mutual respect for each other, thus avoiding various social conflicts. One of the factors...

In community, people may use different language variation accordance with their age, gender, education, profession, ethnic origin, etc. (Holmes, 2013). Many homosexual and bisexual men in Indonesia speak a language variation that they call Bahasa Bencong/Banci or Bahasa Gay (Gay language), a linguistic...

Naming a place (toponym) is a reflection of settlement area which is embodied in the language. Toponyms based on physical environment, biological, and cultural represents the interrelation between language and the environment. Exploring toponyms of a certain area can explain a lot of things such as the...

Language contacts occur because of the interactions between language communities, which creates opportunity for the process of borrowing words between languages. This process takes place in both spoken and written registers, including the fantasy genre, whose popularity in Russia is evident in their...

Issue of child marriage in Indonesia has always been a debate particularly since the rejection of a recent judicial review of the 1974 Marriage Law to raise a minimum marriageable age for girls by Constitutional Court. The judicial review was instigated by the association of women’s and youth organizations,...

Tingkeban is a traditional custom of Javanese people conducted in seven month gestation. Through this tingkeban traditional custom, people have expectation and belief in the security of baby that will be born. Tingkeban traditional procession includes: determining the day, determining the time, providing...

The traditional Javanese literature consists of sexual education. This research will reveal the intellectual of Javanese community with sex education that is contained in the data source of Tembang ‘traditional song’ as Javanese literary such as Serat Wewadining Palakrama, Serat Asmaragama, Serat Pangawikan...

The present study discusses the option pattern of ngrasani ‘gossiping about someone’ by rural and urban Javanese women when involved in social interaction called rewang ‘taking part in other’s event’, arisan (a regular social gathering where a lottery is conducted), and positive relation among neighbours....

This study analyzes grammatical cohesion in article kompas.com of Indonesia. it aims to find grammatical cohesion in article Republika.co.id of Indonesia entitled Ini alasan Ketua BEM UI Acungkan Kartu Kuning Ke Jokowi. This research employs Halliday and hasan’s theory. The type of this research is descriptive...

Aim of this study to describe the development of Indonesian syntactic role of language children severe hearing impairment of preschool age. This study was conducted longitudinally on three subjects. The subject is children with severe hearing impairment preschool age (5;0) who go on group A TKLB-B (nursery...

This paper is aimed at investigating the use of Discourse Markers (DMs) in the essays of high grade and low grade Engllish Department Students of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya University. As writing becomes the skill that the students have to master, it has become the main concern for lecturers including the...

This paper is trying to give a description of autistic children’s EFL speech intelligibility in terms of segmental sound production viewed from Lingua Franca Core proposed by Jennifer Jenkins as published in her book entitled The Phonology of English as an International Language (2009). It was the modification...

Meanings in nowadays digitally based communication have been increasingly exchanged in a more multimodal form. Messages, which were once dominantly conveyed in verbal texts, have transformed into a variety of appearances that include the combination of different modes, such as texts, sounds, images and...

This research is about “Transitivity Personification Clauses Found in the Novel And the Mountain Echoed”. It applies SFL theory from Halliday that focuses on transitivity specific in personification clauses. The data are taken from novel And the Mountain Echoed by Khalled Hosseini. Research method is...

This study discusses about the symbolic meaning of rimpu as a symbol of female identity in Bima community. The study focuses on Bima community especially in Donggo village. The subjects of the study were religion leaders, society leaders, and native people of Bima community. The data are collected through...

This research discussed the rules of regional language in Indonesia, namely Sasak language. It described the phonological study that emerged from the daily speech of Lombok people, using Sasak language. The phonological study here discussed the assimilation process of prefiks that occurs in the Sasak...

Many government officials use Instagram as a means of communication. In Indonesia, one of them is Ridwan Kamil, the mayor of Bandung City who has more than 7 million of followers on Instagram and has shared more than 4000 posts. A lot of his posts contain such hilarious wordplay, for example is puns....

One of the spoken Javanese culture heritages that still carried out annually is ujung tradition. This tradition has close relation to lebaran day (ceremonial after fasting in a month). At that day or event, young, adult and old people celebrate happily. Ujung, really, is a part of a big tradition of...

This study aims to determine the ability of vocabulary production of children in Bekasi. The method used is using image naming interference and picture guess games. Picture-naming is one method of latency between images and semantic meaning with unrelated spangles (Starreveld, 2016). This is done to...

Advertising is a form of communication that discloses information or messages and promotes the speaker's intent to his or her opponent. The language used in advertising is the language that is easy to understand and persuasive so that the opponent can speak as the speaker means. This paper discusses...

The term mondial has the same meaning as the global term, comprehensive, universal, global, spatial. In its development this term can be interpreted as "world-wide". The statement can be interpreted or drawn a conclusion that the term mondial is something that is related to the things that are new and...

Historically, the language of Ambelau is classified into the West Central Maluku Group with Buru, Sula and Taliabo. This study intends to explain the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) reflex into Ambelau language as a first step in testing Collins's (1981) hypothesis. To achieve this goal, the PAN etymon was...

In daily communication, the use of address terms is very common and natural to communicants. They are required to use the terms appropriately in terms of some aspects and points of view. The wrong use of the terms may disturb the social relationship among the communicants. Address terms can be used among...

This study aims to (1) know, describe, and explain the grammatical structure of discourse in the notary text from aspects of the use of grammatical markers; (2) to describe the grammatical marker dominating the grammatical structure of discourse in the notary text; and (3) explain the characteristics...

The objective of this research was to analyse the types of ecolexicon expression in conservation news texts in mass media. The conservation news texts contained language expressions of events or conservation written in accordance with the idea of the vision of conservation-based university (UNNES). There...

Down syndrome is an underdevelopment physical and mental condition in children caused by chromosomal development abnormalities. Signs that show from down syndrome may vary from the invisible, slightly visible to a typical sign of down syndrome. The most typical sign of children with Down syndrome is...

Mitoni ‘a lifecycle salvation ceremony of the seventh month Javanese women pregnancy’ culturally well preserved and passed from generation to generations as an ethnolinguistic phenomenon. It is a descriptive and qualitative exploratory approach of the ethnoscience perspective. The data collection is...

This paper discusses symbolic meanings of tools, materials, and the processions in Sumbawanese Barodak events. For this purpose, Koentjaraningrat’s symbolic values are used in order to analyse the symbolic meanings behind the tools and the materials used in the procession. The data of this study are...

Despite of asking whether to teach grammar or not, this article, a part of dissertation entitled Developing Basic English Grammar Teaching Material based on Interactive Multimedia at University Level, presents optional conditions for over teaching of grammar in digital era. Since effective teaching material...

Loanwords have become a common phenomenon in many languages. As a language develops, loanwords can be found both in written and spoken texts. Loanwords can be found in print media such as magazines. The data of this research is Motoekspert, a popular automotive magazine in Russia, and taken specifically...