ABSTRACTThis research analyzed the address forms in the films Sixteen Candles and The DUFF. The analysis was aimed at identifying the types of address forms and the comparison and contrast of the use of address forms in both films.This is a descriptive qualitative research, using a sociolinguistics approach. The data in this research are all of...

This research is conducted to explore the construction of post-9/11 orientalistdiscourse in a movie entitled Body of Lies (2008). The objective of this research is to describe the construction of post 9/11 orientalist discourse in the representation of the Arab characters in Hollywood spy movie, Body of Lies using Edward Said’s...

ABSTRACTThis research was conducted to discover the ideology of news texts published in four online newspapers: CNN.com, Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), Aljazeera, and Arab News that reported about US intervention in Syrian war in 2017. This research is based on a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach from within Martin theory (1992 &...

ABTRACTThis  research  focuses  on  analysis  of  translation  techniques  applied  in translating computer and internet terms in a book entitled Wireless Networking in the Developing World 2nd  Edition and the quality of translation in terms of accuracy, acceptability and readability. The purposes...

 The research aims to examine the melancholy as reflected in Edgar Allan Poe’s two short stories entitled The Oblong Box and  The Fall of The House of Usher through the figurative language and its significance. The objective of the research are: 1) to describe the style or figurative language in the short stories, and 2) to analyze...

The research aims to realize the ideational meaning analysis of the opiniontexts of New York Daily News newspaper written by different-race writers relatedto the charter school issue. It conducts to discover the similarities and differencesamong them. Finally, it aims to reveal the writers’ reasons in using particularideational meaning,...

The House Bunny is an interesting movie since it presents a recent Americanfemale issue of female sexy body which is taken into account as women source ofempowerment. Yet, this movie brings different perspective which is to challenge theidea that sexy body can truly empower women to achieve goals. Thus, this research isconducted to describe how...

This research intends to describe existentialism in Who’s Afraid of VirginiaWoolf by Edward Albee.This research is a descriptive qualitative research whichis done under the framework of English Literature limited to existentialism as oneof areas of its study. This research takes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf byEdward Albee as source...

ABSTRACTThis research is conducted (1) to find out the readability on the translationof Canon PIXMA iP2770 manual text and (2) to identify the factors influencingthe readability of the translation.This study is classified as descriptive qualitative research. The data of thisresearch are taken from the content of manual text consisting of Turn the...

The study aimed to analyze the politeness strategies in arguments employed by the characters in the movie The Proposal. The study explored the types of speech act exploited in an argument, the politeness strategies used by the characters in the arguments and the factors which influence the choice of strategy.The study used pragmatics study to...