AbstrakComplaint could easily break the social relationship between the speaker (complainer) and the hearer (complainee). In this case, the complainer may express their negative feeling by choosing the right strategy to deliver their negative feeling to the complainee. There are strategies that the complainer could apply from the mildest one to...

ABSTRAKThe distorted images of Arabs often appear in Western artwork and literature. They also appear in the form of popular product, which is Hollywood movies. Larry Charles?s The Dictator (2012) offers a comedy with an Arab as main character in the film. It also becomes interesting to discuss since the issue is wrapped in comedy genre. By...

This research was conducted to describe the psycholinguistic study of verbal and non-verbal language problems faced by the main male character in the movie “Extremely Loud Incredibly Close”, who is likely have an Asperger Syndrome in his childhood life. The objectives of this research are (1) to reveal the verbal language problems faced by...

ABSTRAKThis research was conducted to find out the types of directive speech acts in the film entitled Mary Queen of Scots, the way the speakers apply those types, and the reason of the speakers to utter those types.This research uses Pragmatics approach. It belongs to qualitative descriptive research. The data analysed are all the dialogs...

ABSTRAKThis research is aimed to analyze Metaphor of Emotion in Adele's songs. The data used in this research were Adele?s song lyrics taken from three albums: 19 (2010), 21 (2011), and 25 (2015). Besides analyzing metaphor of emotion that were found, this research also discusses the characteristics of the metaphor of emotion of each album and...

Subjectivity is a philosophical concept of how one, as a subject, gains the sense of identity through the interaction with the external world. The theorization on the conception of subjectivity itself has ranged from the early modern thinkers to post-modern thinkers. This research’s objectives are to describe the struggle of Stephen Dedalus, the...

This research was conducted  by analyzing  lexical collocation  found  in  a comic entitled Superman Sacrifice and its translated version. The aims of this research are: (1) To figure out the types of collocation found  in comic Superman Sacrifice, (2) To  describe translation techniques applied by translator in translating collocation, (3)...

This research was conducted to analyze the translation of figurative language contained in sentences in a novel entitled The Fault in Our Stars. The research objectives of this research are 1) to find out types of figurative language in a novel entitled The Fault in Our Stars, 2) to figure out the translation techniques of figurative language in a...

This research focuses on analysis of translation techniques applied in translating Twitter Helping Center website and the quality of translation in terms of accuracy, acceptability and readability. The purposes of this research are: (1) to identify the  translation  techniques  applied  by the  translator  in  translating  the expressions...