Effective communication happens when the speaker and addressee share the same background knowledge or context. Grice presented his theory of Cooperative Principle, which people need to obey to in order to create an effective communication. However, he also presented that a speaker may fail to obey the Cooperative Principle by flouting the maxims,...

This aim of this research is to find out the types of flouting maxims employed by the characters in the television show Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 5, the way the speakers flout the maxims, and to explain the reasons of the characters in the show flout the maxims using pragmatics approach.This research was a descriptive qualitative research and...

Advertisements, as a media of language contact, are the bridge between the producers and consumers. The language used in advertisements is expected to gain the public’s attention. This study observed Indonesian-English code-switching phenomenon occurring within the dialogue or monologue in Indonesian TV commercials. This study aims to 1)...

The objectives of this research are to classify the types of gender discrimination expressions in a novel Cantik Itu Luka by Eka Kurniawan, to determine the translation techniques in gender discrimination expressions into English, and to assess the quality of translation in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability.This research belongs to...

This research is written based on the analysis of The Submission by Amy Waldman.  It  intends  to  explain  how  representations  of  Muslim  women  in America are considered as the Other in American post 9/11 fiction.The research is a descriptive qualitative research. The source of data is a novel entitled The Submission written by Amy...

The study investigates the significance of the application of Wolfgang Iser’s reader-response theory for analyzing the interactions between a play entitled Streetcar Named Desire and the readers. Iser’s theory provides an explanation on how responses of any text read by the readers are shaped based on Iser’s three phases as the basis of...

The objective of this research is to describe the representation of Kaspar Almayer and how it reflects colonialism. This study applies postcolonial approach since it has something to do with the colonized and its colonizer. This research is conducted using Paul Ricoeur’s harmeneutics that consists of distantiation and appropriation as the...

This research aims at finding types of non-observed maxims in the TV series Pretty Little Liars: Season 7, knowing how context situation affects the use, the hidden meaning, and the function of the non-observed maxims in the TV series. This research is descriptive qualitative research under the framework of a Pragmatics study. The findings reveal...

This research studies Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer novel by Rick Riordan. The objectives are to describe the representation of Samirah al-Abbas, an American Muslim character in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer novel, how the representation of Samirah al-Abbas reflects the discrimination of...

This research describes the significance of Lennie Small, a character from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men novel, to both Steinbeck’s novel and Robert Burns’ poem entitled To a Mouse. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative study which analyses the novel as the primary source of study. In analyzing the novel, I used C.S. Peirce’s...