ABSTRACT The Images of Marilyn Monroe as an Icon in American Popular Culture This thesis is conducted within a frame of American Studies. To apply the frame of American Studies means that the problems are analyzed through interdisciplinary studies. It evolves various angles of field study in viewing the problem. This thesis discussed about...

ABSTRACT This research is intended to answer the problem statements, namely: 1) What kinds of Black American phonological features are used by the characters in the film The Grapes of Wrath? and 2) What are the factors affecting the use of Black American English in the film The Grapes of Wrath? This research is a descriptive qualitative in...

ABSTRACT This research is conducted to describe the strategies employed by the translator in translating swearing words in Sidney Sheldon’s A Stranger in the Mirror into Sosok Asing dalam Cermin, and to identify the accuracy level of translation in the novel. This research is a descriptive qualitative research and it employs purposive...

ABSTRACT This thesis analyzes tenor of a short story. It is a descriptive qualitative research. The source of data is a short story which was written in 1925 by Ernest Hemingway entitled Cat in The Rain. This research is aimed to describe the tenor of the text which covers status, contact and affect. To reach this purpose, this research was...

ABSTRACT This research studies the types of humor appeared in the comedy film FRIENDS, in the episode of “The One With That Could Have Been” and its relation to Grice’s Maxims. It is conducted to find out the types of humor, which appear in this episode and define whether those humors obey or disobey the Grice’s Maxims as the standard...

ABSTRACT Thesis, entitled Chinese-American Woman Existential Conscience as Reflected in the Novel The Woman Warrior Written by Maxine Hong Kinston, is written in purpose of analyzing the facts of women subordination within the novel. And most importantly is to find out the special concept of Chinese-American woman existential conscience which is...

ABSTRACT This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The objective of the research is to describe the ideology and genre of those two texts that is determined in lexicogrammar, cohesion and text structure. The research is conducted through Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The sources of data in this research were the editorials...

ABSTRAK 2006. This thesis is designed to describe strategies in translating swearing utterances in the film entitled Sideways and to know the accuracy of the translation. This study is a descriptive qualitative research. The sampling technique employed in this research is total sampling. There are many swearing utterances in the film but the...

An Analysis of the Functions of Tag Questions in Female and Male Speech in the TV Series Gilmore Girls ABSTRACT 2006. This research has been conducted to figure out the functions of tag questions in female and male speech in the TV series GILMORE GIRLS and to describe the contexts of situation when the tag questions occur. This...

ABSTRACT This research is focused on the discussion of Richard Nixon’s political perspective during his political roles, since he was a congressman in 1947 until he was the 37th United States President. The object of this research is the speeches of Nixon which contain his political thought and decisions public affairs. The political...