ABSTRACTThis research was presented to encounter refusal expressions conveyed by children characters in the novel entitled The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in which those are influenced by social distance. It explained the way children employ the choice of refusals, analyzed types of refusal expression, and examined the reason why children apply the...

ABSTRACTThis research discusses about the Burnham family crisis depicted in the film American Beauty. The family crisis happens in American family in the 20th century. This research is to find out what are the factors that cause the destruction of family value in Burnham family and how the construction of red rose represent the destruction of...

Taylor Swift is one of country pop music singers who brings new idea of country music. In order to make country music more popular, Swift uses different theme to represent her music. Swift’s music videos You BelongWith Me and Mean are interesting music to become the subject of this research. These two music videos include themes which are...

AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED IN COSMETIC ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE INTERNET (A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY) Kristiana Tiwik Yayianti1 Prof. Dr. M. Sri Samiati T2 ABSTRACT This research is intended to analyze the use of Figurative Language in Cosmetic Advertisements which are found in the Internet. The objectives of the research are to find out...

ABSTRACTThis research is aimed to find out the refusal expression employed by thecharacters in the American-TV Series Entitled Royal Pains: Season 1, Episode 1-6. It is also to describe the politeness strategy employed by the characters and toexplain the factors of chossing certain strategy in expressing refusal.This research uses pragmatics...

ABSTRACTPermita Adi Listiani. C1310011. 2014. The Lexicogrammatical Quality Performed By Junior High School Student: A Case Study Of Second Language Acquisition Of English Course Student In LBPP LIA Surakarta. Thesis: English Department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University.This thesis is written to discuss about the...

ABSTRACTThe purposes of this research are to find out the translation techniques applied in translating colloquial word, and to find out the accuracy and acceptability of the colloquial word in Shrek trilogy.This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The data are 118 colloquialism in form of single words in the movies Shrek, Shrek 2, and...

ABSTRACTThis research is essentially aimed to explain how the movie Bad Ass represents Frank Vega as a vigilante and what is the motive of the representation of Frank Vega as a vigilante. The research provides the analyses of Frank Vega who becomes a vigilante which is caused by the socio-cultural condition of American society.This is a...

ABSTRACTThis research focuses to analyze gender roles and gender identities in gay couple households. This research is conducted under the framework of American Studies as interdisciplinary studies which applies some approaches such as gender theory, queer theory, semiotics theory and socio-cultural approach to answer the research question.This...

The ideal family concept started from 1980s are canged since there are the family divertities in America. Americans have their own perspectives on defining the ideal family concept. Media also take parts to construct the ideal concept based on their concept. Therefore, i attempt to conduct this research to investigate the construction of ideal...