This paper is about the functional selection of linguistic units in order to reach translation equivalence. Linguistic units in this paper include morpheme/word, group, clause, and text under the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Translation involves two languages, i.e. the language that is translated (source language) and the...

The ultimate goal of the English language learning is that learners can use the language in an accepted level of appropriacy. To do so, they need to have an adequate discourse competence comprising its various elements that build it. It is with discourse competence that the learners, who are speakers and hearers or writers and readers of the...

It is commonly stated that Indonesian scientific texts have such characteristics as simple, concise, objective, and logic. However, from the point of view of linguistics, no adequate empirical evidence has been given to define and explain those characteristics. Moreover, there are still many more characteristics that need to be linguistically...

This paper is concerned with thematization and Theme-Rheme patterning in journal articles written in Indonesian. Eight journal articles in the fields of biology, economics, social science, and language were analysed to find out how their textual meaning was built from the points of view of Theme selection and Theme development. From Theme...

Empowerment of local wisdom in conflict resolution must start with the Surakarta palace parse the source of major problems of conflict twin kings of Surakarta triggered by disputes between Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Harya (KGPH) Hangabehi and KGPH Tedjowulan born from different mothers .The dispute about the heir to the throne of King Keraton...

Culture and humanity are two things which are placed together with the reason that in one side, culture canfunction as a media while in other side,humanity is its content. Media and its content fulfill together so that they to create humanitarian, prestisious, and civilized life.is/am teaches us to respect humanitarian aspect and allow the good...

There is an important phase in the process of liter ary classification that leads into a diverse kinds of literary genres. In terms of the quality, there are hig/1 and low qualities of literature. Where as in terms of its shape, there are prose, poem and drama. Functionally , however, there are useful and entertaining literature or dulce et utile....

Philological work is used to pure the text by having criticism toward the text, and the textual criticism objective is to produce a text which is most equivalent with the source. The text which has been cleared from the error and has been reorganized as the original is a text which can be responsible as a source for many researches in other...

Middle East term tends to refer to cultural domain, so it has no any certain borders. Most colllIIion definition used is regions that consist of Bahrain, Egypt, Turk, Iran (Persia), Jordanian, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabian, Syria, Union of Arab Emirates, Yemen, and Palestine. Iran is the most eastward border, sometimes Afghanistan...

Ideology means a faith system of an individual about a world with better life, so that it appears as a mindset for its followers. Ideology can be seen as ‘worldview’. Al-ikhwanul Muslimin or Moslem Brotherhood is an ideological movement that fights for Islamic law applications in various aspects of life, including in citizenship life....