ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to analyze the elliptical question found in the novel entitled Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The objectives of this research are(1) to find out the types of the elliptical questions (2) to describe thetranslation techniques applied by the translator in translating elliptical question in the novel entitled...

ABSTRACTThis research is focused to find out the translation techniques which are applied in translating colloquial expressions, and to assess the accuracy and acceptability of the colloquial expressions in the subtitle film We’re the Millers.This research is a descriptive qualitative research. There are 74 data colloquial expressions in the...

ABSTRACTThis research was conducted to analyze the power struggle of Obama through Obama’s interviews by different countries. The interviews are from the videos entitled,(1) “Barack Obama’s CNN interview-His Diminished Expectation”, (2)“Barack Obama’s TV-Interview US-President Obama with German...

This research was conducted to know the use of approbation maxim strategieswhich are uttered by the characters in the novel entitled Five On A Treasure Island. Moreover, this research was made to know the speakers? reason in relation to politeness principle when they use such a particular strategy in expressing the objective of their...

The research focuses on the understanding of 20 students in SMP N 9 Surakarta class one towards negative form in grammar based on tenses. There are three tenses applied in this research; present continuous tense, simple present tense and past tense which is divided into two (regular verbs and irregular verbs). Besides that, there are also two...

This research examined interpersonal meaning in two editorial texts which concerned telephone tapping issue to Indonesian leader. The texts were published by international media from Indonesia and Australia, namely The Jakarta Globe and The Australian. The analysis was also carried out to discover the similarities and differences of interpersonal...

This research was conducted to find out the types of flouting maxims employed by the characters in the film Hell Baby. It is also carried out to identifyhow the characters employ the implicatures and to find out the reasons on flouting the maxims employed by the characters in the film entitled “Hell Baby”.This research is a descriptive...

ABSTRACTThis research aims to reveal the interpersonal meaning analysis of The Editorial in The Jakarta Post and The Editorial in The Jakarta Globe relating the issue of Indonesian voters? characteristics. It is also conducted to reveal the similarities and differences between them. Finally, it aims to reveal the writers? reason in using...

ABSTRACTThis research was conducted to analyze the power relation between the participants in the four disaster news interviews. The aims of this research are: (1) to find out the indicators of power that can be found in the four disaster news interviews, (2) to describe the relation between the participants related to institutional and societal...

ABSTRACTThis research belongs to a qualitative research applying descriptive method. This research analyzed the readability level of short stories with less than 300 words using Systemic Functional Linguistics approach. It aims to find out the readability level of each text. It is also intended to know whether the word count limitation brings...