This research explores how the capitalism system degrades the human values into just a commodification as reflected in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The main data is a novel entitled Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) that is published by The Viking Press. Secondary data involves books,...

This research was conducted to describe the types of strategies employed by the characters in the film “The Ghost Writer” for issuing indirect commands, the factors influencing the use of strategies and the responses given by the hearers. The research used pragmatic approach with the indirect commands as the scope of the analysis....

This research focuses on the analysis of hyperbolic expressions in the novel SUPERNATURAL: NEVERMORE by Keith R.A. DeCandido and their translation. The objectives of this research are to find out: (1) the types of hyperbolic expressions in the novel SUPERNATURAL: NEVERMORE by Keith R.A. DeCandido, (2) the translation techniques used in translating...

The objectives of this research are to explain how the Greek mythological characters are reflected and re-invented in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and to understand Riordan’s ideology conveyed throughout the novel. This research belongs to cultural studies with the application of archetypal/mythological approach. The...

This research analyzed the grammatical errors on simple past tense made by the Second Grade Students in their stories based on psycholinguistics approach. This research involved the English course students of Second Grade of Gama Centre Special for English in academic year 2012. It was held from August until October 2012. This was a descriptive...

The research focuses on the translation analysis of wordplay in the film Mr. Bones. The purpose of this research are (1) to describe the types of wordplay, (2) to explain the translation techniques employed by the translator to translate the wordplay, and (3) to assess the quality of the translation in terms of accuracy and readability. This...

This research is intended to analyze the use of slang expressions in one of episode of American TV series, 2 Broke Girls using Dell Hymes Theory: Component of Speech (Situation, Participant, End, Act Sequence, Key, Instrument, Norm and Genre). The objectives of the research are: to determine the types of slang expressions in terms of sexuality,...

This research was conducted to analyze the report verb „said‟ translation in The Old Man and The Sea novel found in the two Indonesian-translated versions novel translated by two translators: Dian Vita Ellyati and Yuni Kristianingsih Pramudhaningrat. The objectives of this research are to find out the translation techniques employed by...

This study is designed (1) to identify the techniques of translation of non-restrictive appositives in an economic book entitled an Outline of the U.S. Economy and (2) to describe the translation quality in terms of the accuracy and acceptability. This study is a descriptive qualitative research. In collecting the data, purposive sampling was...