2012. Thesis. Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts. Sebelas Maret University. The emergence of the cult of true womanhood in the early 20th century had triggered the movement called Black Madonna Movement, which caused a great number of black women to embrace the values of true womanhood. Alice Walker and Shirley Ann Grau are two of many woman authors...

2012. This research attempts to find out the attitudes employed in the short story entitled Landlord of the Crystal Fountain written by Malachi Whitaker and to find out why the attitudes are performed in the text. This research applied qualitative desriptive method with total sampling technique. This research also employed primary and secondary...

This research focuses on indirectness employed by the main character and the other characters in the film entitled “Easy A”. This study aims to find out the kinds of indirectness performed in the movie entitled “Easy A”, the motives to use indirectness employed by the characters, and how the interlocutor understands indirectness used in...

Lady Gaga’s music videos, Paparazzi, Telephone, and Bad Romance are interesting music videos since they present additional representation of Girl Power that cannot be found in another female singer’s music videos. It means that there is a shift in how Girl Power is perceived in contemporary American society. Although those music videos present...

This research is intended to analyze the translation of similes of Ernest Hemingway’s novel entitled “The Old Man and the Sea” since there are two different translation versions of the novel conducted by Dian Vita Ellyati and Yuni Kristianingsih Pramudhaningrat. The objectives of this research are to find out the translation techniques used...

This research focused on the appraisal system in love songs between Anggun C. Sasmi and Agnes Monica taken from the album entitled “Luminescence” and “WhaddupA”. There were four texts were analyzed. There were two texts for each artist, the data are entitled “Saviour” and “Breathe in Water” performed by Anggun C. Sasmi, and the...

The popularity of folk music as protest music declines in the 21st century. However, the ideology of protest music is still preserved by folk musician although it is not popular anymore. This research is conducted to explain the social protest songs written and played by Conor Oberst as the new generation of folk musician. This research is...

This research discusses about the translation techniques of sexual terms in the movie The Ugly Truth and the assessment quality in terms of accuracy and acceptability. The research design is descriptive qualitative that uses two kinds of data sources. The first is in the form of document consisting of the VCD of the movie The Ugly Truth, script,...

The research focuses on the analysis of techniques and quality of translation of expressive interjections in bilingual comic edition 17 “The Very Best Donald Duck”. The purposes of this study are to find out the meanings of interjections, translation techniques, and the quality of interjection translation in terms of accuracy and...