This research aims at finding types of swearing employed by the characters in the movie Sweet Sixteen, knowing how the context situation affects the use and the meaning of swearing, and knowing how the sociocultural background of the characters influences the level of swearing' offensiveness. This research is a descriptive qualitative research...

ABSTRACTSelma is a film that portrays the voting right social movement between 1964 and 1965. This research aims to analyze the portrayal of said social movement through Collective Behaviour and Charismatic Leader approach, while using Fiske’s semiotics theory to decipher the meaning. The results show that Selma uses specific settings to signify...

ABSTRACT  This research aims to find out the techniques applied by translator in translatingmetaphorical expressions in the novel Cuckoo’s Calling and to analysis the translation quality interms of accuracy, acceptability and readability in translating metaphorical expressions. This research applied descriptive quality method. A purposive...

This research attempts to identify the portrayal of woman, nature and patriarchal society in Margaret Eleanor Atwood’s poems. The research belongs to descriptive qualitative study which scrutizines Atwood’s two poems entitled Ava Garner Reincarnated as Magnolia and A Man’s Look as the primary source of the study. The method of the research...

This research is aimed to describe the types of addresses used by the characters in the movie entitled Cinderella and also to find out the context where the forms of address are used. This research is under a big field of linguistics. Specifically, it is a socio-pragmatics study which explores the relationship between language, society and the...

This research focuses on the musicians’ Twitter posts, which contain promotion, with also include emoji and text. This research is in a form of a descriptive qualitative which uses the multimodality theory through the generalized image-text relation of Radan Martinec and Andrew Salway. Using generalized image-text relation, the status relation...

This research was conducted to investigate the disagreement strategies that occur in Me Before You movie based on the gender of the characters. The aims of this research are to find out the disagreement strategies used by the characters, to figure out the ways of each character in employ the strategy, and to reveal the reason of each character in...

The purposes of this study are to identify the type of address terms in the novel titled Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, to identify translation techniques used by translator to translate the address terms in the novel titled Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and to describe translation quality of address...

AbstrakThis research was conducted to investigate public reaction towards the ordinance that allowed transgender people to use bathroom in correspondence to their identified gender. This study implemented purposive sampling to collect the data in the form of comments from comment sections in news articles from Abcnews (abcnews.com), Usatoday...

This research examines a Hollywood movie entitled Arrival (2016) to see how American hegemony is represented and maintained in the movie. This is a qualitative research that is conducted under the framework of American studies. The concept of American values, Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci and Soft Power by Joseph Nye are used to answer the research...