ABSTRACT ROSITA ASPARANINGRUM. C1306528. 2008. Refusals in the Film Entitled “In Her Shoes” (A Socio-Pragmatics Approach). Thesis. English Department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University. This research is conducted to describe the strategies of refusing invitation, request, offer, suggestion, etc used by the...

ABSTRACT 2008. This minor thesis discussed about the American womanhood in nineteenth century which was reflected by Susan Coolidge in her novel What Katy Did, focusing on the idea of a young girl to be an ideal woman as expected in the society. The research took the form of library research utilizing the descriptive technique, and used some...

ABSTRACT This is a qualitative research employing descriptive and comparative method. The analysis is aimed to describe the lexicogrammar, cohesion, text structure, genre system, and the channel and medium applied in the both texts. This research is also used to compare the mode in advertisement texts of Sanur Paradise Hotel and Suite, and...

Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American poet, short story writer, journalist, and literary critic who lived in 1809-1849. As the saddest and the strangest figure in American literary history, he had unique style in expressing his works. Death played a major part in many of his writings. He blended the sorrow, despair, anger and suffer from loss, as...

ABSTRACT 2008. This research is conducted to find out the reflection of the myth of America as a special nation with a special destiny and mission in the Bush doctrine by interpreting word by word, sentence by sentence and statements in the textual speech of this document which implied the myth of America as a special nation. The research...

ABSTRACT 2008. This thesis studies the role of minor characters upon Edward and Tom as the central characters in Mark Twain’s novel The Prince and the Pauper. The objective of the research is to describe the role of minor characters upon Edward’s and Tom’s character development as the central characters. In order to achieve this, the...

ABSTRACT 2008. This research was conducted within American studies discipline for the purpose of giving description of a semiotic analysis of Coca-Cola television commercials in Indonesia particularly “Segarnya Mantap itu Coca-Cola: Goes to City” series released in 2004. The myths, in this case American myths since Coca-Cola is an American...

ABSTRACT 2007. This research focused on the strategies used by the translator in translating complex sentences, and the accuracy of the translation in the novel “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “Harry Potter Dan Batu Bertuah”. This is a descriptive qualitative research. It collects the data, classifies, and then analyzes...

ABSTRACT The aim of the research is to describe the register, genre and ideology of the texts concerning the International reactions towards the 2006 Thailand coup d’état. The research belongs to descriptive qualitative research. The source of data is the text from wikipedia.com published in September 29, 2006. The sampling technique used...

Abstract This thesis w as a qualitative research employing a descriptive comparative method. The research was conducted by employing Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory, which focuses on analyzing the interpersonal meaning of texts exposing cartoon issue in Other Opinion Column and Your Letters Column in The Jakarta Post. The...