"DILBERT" CARTOON STRIPS ON DAILY KOMPAS NEWSPAPER: A PRAGMATIC STUDY"

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Dilbert is an impressive American comic strip written by Scott Adams. It tells a white-collar satirical humor which presents an engineer Dilbert as the major character. The conversation among the characters in Dilbert indicates the implicit meaning. It encourages the writer to do the research. Hence, the writer has an idea to identify the appearance of implicature, to describe its meaning and to reveal the maxims which are violated by the characters in Dilbert cartoon strips.

THE HERMENEUTICS ANALYSIS OF JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

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By:
Estri Kurniati
04004142

One of Jane Austen master pieces is Pride and Prejudice. The interesting thing of this work is the social condition and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century. This research entitled “The Hermeneutics Analysis of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice” to describe the social condition and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century.

The writer used hermeneutics study to analyze this thesis. The type of the study is library research. It did by carefully and critically reading the novel by Jane Austen. The object of this research is the novel Pride and Prejudice. Then the research object that will be analyzed in this research are the social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century as reflected to the novel. The subject of the research is often called the data source. The writer classified the data source into primary source and secondary source. The primary source is the text of the novel, whereas the secondary source taken from books, magazines, and electronic device especially internet. The writer uses the library method to collect the data needed, that is observation and documentation method. After collecting the data, the writer examining the story of the novel to find the social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century. The writer uses literary research by descriptive qualitative method under the hermeneutics study developed by Endraswara and tries to give clearer information about social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century.
Some important research finding are describes social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century as reflected to the novel. There are recurrent social conditions in English soiety in the 19th century, that is: (1) social life, (2) economic life. There are reccurent pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century as reflected to the novel, that is: (1) education, (2) wealth, (3) playing music, (4) marriage, and (5) fashion.

SYMBOLS OF THE DARKNESS AS REFLECTED IN DAN BROWN’S ANGELS AND DEMONS: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS

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By
Adib Pratama
03004209

This research entitled “Symbols of the Darkness as Reflected in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons: A Semiotic Analysis is intended to find out the symbols of the darkness semiotically described in the novel.

This research uses descriptive qualitative method since the researcher does not apply any quantitative analysis or statistical procedures. The researcher uses the novel entitled Angels and Demons as the data source of the research.

The methods used in collecting the data are observation and documentation. In observation method, the researcher reads the chosen object critically, and then identifies the terms in the novel that refers to the symbols of the darkness. After the reading and identifying, the researcher collects and writes on all data supporting the research. While in the documentation method, the researcher uses some related books and other document collected from internet to support this research.In analyzing the data, the researcher applies descriptive qualitative method. He use the descriptive qualitative method to collect the data and analyzes it by using some theories that are related to the symbols of darkness.
The result shows that the symbols of the darkness in the novel Angels and Demons semiotically described in four terms that refer to the symbols of the darkness, they are: dark condition, iniquity, wickedness or evil, and foulness.

THE LOVE TRAGEDIES IN AJIP ROSIDI’S RORO MENDUT AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET A COMPARATIVE STUDY

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This thesis entitled The Love Tragedies in Ajip Rosidi’s Roro Mendut and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Comparative Study is intended to answer the objectives of the research: 1) to describe the love tragedies in Ajip Rosidi’s Roro Mendut and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and 2) to describe the differences and the similarities between the love tragedies in Ajip Rosidi’s Roro Mendut and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

The subject of the research are Ajip Rosidi’s Roro Mendut and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and the object of the research is the love tragedy and its the differences and similarity two works. The type of this research is a library research. The data is qualitative method. The data collecting technique used in the research reading the works repeatedly, the next is visiting the library to get more references. After the data are collected, they are analyzed by using a comparative study by Guillen.

Some important research findings on this research are follows. There are seven situations in Guillen’s theory that can be found in the works Roro Mendut and Romeo and Juliet, they are: (1) The Specific Circumstance and the World are the love story from local to the world and international, (2) The Present and the absent are the lovers came from different status and clans but they loved each other, (3) The experience and Its sense are the lovers have irrational thinking, violate rules, and do everything to take love, (4) The I and Whatever is alient to it are the struggles of the lovers to unite their love although they should face many obstacles, (5) The Perceived and The Longed For are the lovers were difficult to unite love however they wanted to live together, happiness and freedom in their love together, (6) What is and What should be the lovers have experienced restraint of love although love should be free for the lovers, (7) What exists today and what is eternal are In the works, Roro Mendut and Romeo and Juliet, the lovers got suffering to keep their love and they brought their endless love until died.

THE BLIND LOVE IN ERICH SEGAL’S LOVE STORY AND MARAH RUSLI’S SITTI NURBAYA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

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The title of this thesis is “The Blind Love in Erich Segal’s Love Story and Marah Rusli’s Sitti Nurbaya: A Comparative Study.” This thesis discusses about three comparisons. They are the comparison of the personality, comparison of the conflict and the blind love, and the comparison of the ending of the story.

The writer uses the descriptive qualitative research to discuss and compare the novel Sitti Nurbaya and the novel Love Story as the subject of the study. The object of the study is all the passage of the novels. The methods used in collecting the research data are observation and documentation consists of the data are analyzed by using Claudio Guillen’s The Challenge of Comparative Literature.

The results of the research are stated as follows, The personality of the main characters of the novels is almost similar although there are some differences.The comparison of the personality compares two characters between Jennifer Cavilleri and Sitti Nurbaya that include, first physical traits compare Jennifer Cavilleri and Sitti Nurbaya as beautiful young ladies, and psychological traits compare Jennifer Cavilleri and Siti Nurbaya psychologically as the women who should give struggle in their love. The conflict and the blind love that are experienced by main characters are almost similar although there are some differences.The comparisons of the conlict and the blind love compares two main characters between Jenny cavillery and Sitti Nurbaya with their lover. The ending of the story is almost similar although although there are some differences. The comparison of the ending compares the climax of Jennifer Cavilleri and Sitti Nurbaya. Both of them died.

A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH SENTENCES USED IN READERS’ FORUM OF THE JAKARTA POST

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The research entitled A Syntactic Analysis of English Sentences Used in Readers’ Forum of The Jakarta Post is descriptive qualitative. The objectives of this research are to describe the sentence types and to determine the sentence type and pattern which is frequently used in Readers’ Forum of The Jakarta Post.

The data of this research consists of 735 English sentences used in Readers’ Forum of The Jakarta Post within thirty editions published from January to February 2008. To gather the data, the researcher uses observation method and documentation method. In addition, the researcher uses structural analysis method to analyze the data. Furthermore, a syntactic analysis is applied as theoretical approach to do the research.

The result of the study shows that the types of sentence used in Readers’ Forum of The Jakarta Post include simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound – complex sentence; while the patterns include SV, SVA, SVC, SVO, SVOC, SVIODO, and SVOA. At the end of analysis, simple sentence constitutes the highest typical occurrences of sentence types with 311 out of 735 sentences or 42,3% and SVOA pattern remains the most frequent occurrences of sentence patterns with 199 out of 735 sentences or 27,1%. It means that the reader of The Jakarta Post tries to give their opinion by using language which is easier to be understood by the other readers, so the other readers can easily understand what they want to convey about.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MANDARIN AND ENGLISH PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM

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This research entitled A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MANDARIN AND ENGLISH PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM is intended to explain about phonemic system of Mandarin and English. This research also discusses the allophone variation and also the suprasegmental.

This research uses qualitative method. The data are taken from books, dictionary, and also oral speaking. The researcher analyzes the data which is not designed using statistics procedures. To collect the data, the researcher uses Metode Simak (Observation Method). The researcher also uses Teknik Catat (Writing Technique) to collect the data. The researcher uses comparative analysis to analyze and describe the data by comparing two languages based on the kind of sounds of each language. The researcher uses phonological approach as the basic knowledge background to analyze some problems in this research paper.

The result of the research shows that there are some different phones between English and Mandarin phonemic system. The different speech sounds (phone) between English and Mandarin are in initial sounds and final sounds. This research also shows the difference function of suprasegmental phoneme especially the tone between English and Mandarin.

A SEMIOTIC STUDY OF SIGNS ON COMPUTER

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This research entitled “A Semiotic Study of Signs on Computer” is intended to find out the types of icon on computer, the reasons to use icon on computer, the components of icon on computer, and the functions of icon on computer.

This research belongs to qualitative research. The data of this research focuses on words rather than numbers and there is no statistical procedure. The sources of the data in this research are books, the internet, program of Tune up utilities 2006, and computer. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data through text analysis.

The result of this research shows that there are five types of icons namely (1) image or representational icon, (2) diagram icon, (3) metaphor icon, (4) abstract icon and (5) arbitrary icon. Computer icon has several reasons to be used, namely, (1) icons are easily recognizable, (2) icons can cross language boundaries, (3) people can remember and find images more easily than words, (4) people can discriminate between distinctive icons more easily than between words, (5) icons assist non-literate, semi-literate users and "voluntarily illiterate" users, (6) people like pictures and (7) icons often take up less space than equivalent text. All of the icons have two components, namely structural and perceptual. The Structural component has three components, namely, (1) semantics, (2) syntactics, and (3) pragmatics. The perceptual component has three components, namely, (1) visibility, (2) discriminability, and (3) figural goodness. The computer icon has three functions, namely, (1) to represent the object of an image, (2) to deliver the message to other and (3) to convey purpose of functions.

PRAGMATIC STUDY ON JAVANESE USED IN WEDDING CEREMONIES

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This thesis entitled ‘Pragmatic Study on Javanese Used in Wedding Ceremonies’ is aimed at finding out the types of figures of speech and the levels of speech acts in the Javanese wedding ceremony.

The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The writer does not use any calculation or statistical procedure. The object of the research is figures of speech used in Javanese wedding ceremonies. The data collecting techniques of this research are observation (recording technique) and documentation (noting technique). The figures of speech are classified based on the types of figures of speech and the levels of speech acts.

The research finding shows that the types of figures of speech that are found are schemes and tropes. The schemes categories include alliteration and hyperbole. Meanwhile, the tropes categories cover simile, personification, and litotes. The levels of speech acts found in this research are locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act.

AN ANALYSIS OF CODE MIXING CONDUCTED BY INDONESIAN CELEBRITIES IN TELEVISION’ S INFOTAINMENT PROGRAM

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This research entitled An Analysis of Code Mixing Conducted by Indonesian Celebrities in Television Infotainment Program is intended to find out the basic languages inserted in the code mixing, the forms of code mixing, and the probable reasons for conducting code mixing.

This research belongs to qualitative research. It does not use statistical procedure. The researcher takes data by recording and noting all the spoken language used by Indonesian Celebrities in Television Infotainment Program. In collecting the data, the researcher uses recording and noting techniques. After the data are collected, they are analyzed and classified based on the languages used, the forms, and the reasons.

The result of her research shows that the languages inserted in code mixing by Indonesian Celebrities in Television Infotainment Program are classified into two categories, namely Code Mixing between two languages and Code Mixing involving three languages. Code Mixing between two languages are Code Mixing between Indonesian and English, Code Mixing between Indonesian and Arabic, Code Mixing between Indonesian and Betawi language. Code Mixing involving three languages are Code Mixing using Indonesian-English-Arabic, Code Mixing using Indonesian-Betawi-Javanese, Code Mixing using Indonesian-English-Betawi. The forms of Code Mixing used by Indonesian Celebrities, Code Mixing in word form, Affix form, Phrase form and Clause form. The words are noun, adjective and verbs. The probable reasons that cause code mixing conducted by Indonesian Celebrities are no exact term in Indonesian to replace the foreign word, habit, to show the prestige, topic, and personal identity.

A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN SYNTACTIC DEVICES

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This S1 thesis entitled ”Contrastive Analysis Between English and Indonesian Syntactic Devices” is intended to give a description of English and Indonesian syntactic devices and to show the similarities and differences between them. The research type used in the study is descriptive research on which it is based on the descriptive data.

The objects of the research are English and Indonesian Syntactic devices taken from the books Understanding English Grammar by Wardhaugh Ronald (1977), The Structure of American English by W. Nelson Francis (1986) Modern English A Practical References Guide by Marcella Frank (1972), Introduction To Linguistic Analysis by Ramelan (1992), Essential of English Sentence Structure by Nuryanto (1986), Analisis Bahasa by Samsuri (1994) Tata Bahasa Indonesia, Sekolah Menegah Tingkat Atas by Gorys Keraf (1985) Tata Bahasa Baru Bahasa Indonesia by S. Takdir Alisyahbana (1980) Tata Bahasa Rujukan Bahasa Indonesia by Gorys Keraf (1991) Tata Kalimat Bahasa Indonesia by Samsuri (1981). In collecting the data, the writer uses the four techniques: except Teknik Rekam. Teknik Catat is used to find the data of verbs in many books. Teknik Pisah is used to separate English from Indonesian syntactic devices. Teknik Balik is used to translate some Indonesian vocabularies to English syntactic devices. In analyzing the data contrastive analysis is applied to find the similarities and differences between English and Indonesian syntactic devices.

After analyzing the data, it is found that both English and Indonesian have syntactical devices. English has five syntactical devices: inflection, derivation, word order and basic sentence patterns, function words, and prosody, and Indonesian language also has five syntactical devices: infleksi, derivasi, kata tugas, tertib kata and pola dasar kalimat, and intonasi and both have the similarities and differences between English and Indonesian in syntactic devices. The similarities are: (1) English and Indonesian use inflectional suffixes. (2) English and Indonesian derivational processes use derivational affixes including prefixes and suffixes. (3) In English and Indonesian sentences, the subject always comes before the predicate or the verb, two basic sentence patterns of English and Indonesian are similar as in S + V (English) similar to FN + FV (4) To lengthen a sentence, English and Indonesian function words use prepositions, conjunctions, and coordinators. (5) English and Indonesian show pitch, stress, and juncture. The differences between English and Indonesian syntactic devices are: (1) English inflection formations show the plural suffixes and possessive suffix meanwhile Indonesian inflections show prefix what consists of prefix me-, ber-, pe-, and ter- and suffix –kan. (2) Indonesian syntactic devices show prefixes but English syntactic devices only show suffixes (3) Indonesian derivational processes use confixes and infixes meanwhile English use derivational prefix and suffix. (4); An English sentence always needs a verb or at least there must be a linking verbs; meanwhile Indonesian language has FN + FA, FN1 + FN2, and FN + FNu; English and Indonesian are also different in terms of word order on which the modifier of English noun phrase usually comes in front of the headword; meanwhile, Indonesian language has the other way arround. (5) English and Indonesian function words are different on their kinds and Indonesian function words use particles (-kah, -lah, and –pun). (6) Indonesian shows duration but there is no duration in English. (7) English stress can change the meaning of the words but Indonesian stress does not change the meaning of words.

THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN GARRY MARSHALL’S “PRINCESS DIARIES 1” (MOVIE VERSION)

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This thesis entitled The Analysis of Speech Acts in Garry Marshall’s “Princess Diaries 1” (Movie Version) is intended to analyze speech act including forms, types, and functions found on the dialogue script of the “Princess Diaries 1” (Movie Version).

This research uses descriptive-qualitative method. With the descriptive method, the data collected are taken from the document in form of dialogue script. While, with the qualitative method, the data are collected for describing the social interaction in form of speech act, related to some issues, such as: types, forms, and functions. The dialogue script was taken from the site http://www.script-rama.com/movie_scripts/p/princess-diaries-script-transcript-hathaway.html. In analyzing the data, the researcher does four steps: reading comprehensively the script, counting the total a number of speech acts in the script by giving number on each act, classifying every act in the dialogue script based on forms, types, and functions of speech acts, and analyzing each act.

The result of this research is divided into three parts. The forms of speech act found are declarative, interrogative, and imperative forms. Second, the types of speech act found are locutionary, perlocutionary, and illocutionary. Third, the functions of speech act found are divided into five categorizes, namely assertives which have various meanings, namely complaining, reporting, stating, and boasting something; directives which have various meanings, namely advising, recommending, commanding, and ordering something; commissives which have meaning, such as giving promise to a future action. Expressives have various meanings, namely surprising, amazing, thanking something, and greeting someone. The last category is declarations where the act is done by a person who has an institutional framework, such as: Clarisse as the Queen of Genovia, Gupta as the Vice-Principal and Mia Thermopolis as the Princess of Genovia.

AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH ABBREVIATIONS MADE IN PBI STUDENTS’ SMS AT UAD

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This thesis entitled An Analysis of English Abbreviations Made in PBI Students’ SMS at UAD is intended to analyze English Abbreviations including types, parts of speech and the relationship between English abbreviations and the original words found in PBI Students’ messages.

The research belongs to descriptive qualitative method. By using two techniques, namely; interview and documentation techniques the researcher collects the messages of PBI Students starting from April until July 2008. In analyzing the data, the researcher learns and classifies the forms of English SMS Abbreviations by categorizing the types, namely numeric and alphabetic forms and gives some explanation, the researcher also classifies the forms related to Parts of speech in which the English abbreviations are formed in each sentence of messages, and formulating the relationships between English SMS abbreviations and the original words.

The result of this research is divided into three parts. First, the types of English SMS Abbreviations can be grouped into two types, namely numeric and alphabetic forms. Second, the variety of English Abbreviations is categorized into parts of speech, such as pronoun, verb, noun, conjunction, preposition, adverb, article, adjective, and interjection. Third, the relationship between English abbreviations in SMS and the original words which can be divided into two relations, namely the relationship based on rules of abbreviating and the relationship based on unrelated rules of abbreviating. The relationship based on the rules always follows the some common characteristics of forming the abbreviations, such as: some abbreviations are read as individual letters, some abbreviations are read as words (acronym), and some abbreviations are only written forms; the forms are still pronounced as the full words. While the second the relationship is based on unrelated rules; that is similar sound. The forms which have similarity on the sounds with the original words can be seen in both numeric and alphabetic or letter forms.

AN ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE NOUN TRANSLATION IN POCKET DICTIONARY ENGLISH-INDONESIA USED IN MOBILE PHONE

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This research entitled “An Analysis of Concrete Noun Translation in Pocket
Dictionary English – Indonesia Used in Mobile Phone” is intended to find out the
total number of meanings and the translation rank shift.

This study is a qualitative research. This research is also descriptive research
and fact finding. The research object of this study is concrete noun translation related to the house and the classroom, and the data are taken from books, electronic devices and internet. The writer uses noting technique to collect the data. To analyze the data, the writer conducts three steps in this research; they are presenting the data, analyzing the data and finding the result of the research.

The result of this study shows that there are three groups of translation
meanings; they are 24 nouns or 48 % of the total number which have one meaning,
14 nouns or 28 % of the total number which have two meanings and 12 nouns or 24
% of the total number which have more than two meanings. The researcher finds the
translation rank shift in PD English–Indonesia. The translation rank shift is classified into two kinds, the upward rank shift and the downward rank shift. The most frequent type of rank shift is upward rank shift. There are 21 data of upward rank shift (41.17 % of the total number), 4 data of downward rank shift (7.84 % of the total number), 18 data of no shift (35.30 % of the total number) and 8 data which are not translated (15.69 % of the total number). The occurrences of those shifts reflect the translator’s awareness of the linguistic discrepancies between the SL and TL.

AN ANALYSIS OF JARGON IN FOOTBALL SPORT

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Language is a means of communication to express the ideas and feelings. People communicate with each other using language in their activities. Many activities in this life have their own special language. The research entitled “An Analysis of Jargon in Football Sport” is intended to find out the forms of jargon in football sport, the meanings of jargon in football sport, and the functions of jargon in football sport.

In this research, the writer uses qualitative method. The use of qualitative method is appropriate with the methods of analyzing data in this research. The data of this research focuses on words matter than numbers and there is no statistical procedure. Some instruments to support the data in this research are internet, football magazine, football match, football player, football commentator. The writer uses the noting and interview techniques to collect the data. The analysis is focused on the forms, the meanings, and the functions of jargon in football sport using descriptive qualitative method.

The result of this research shows that there are four forms of jargon in football sport, they are word, phrase, abbreviation and acronym forms. Word has the highest frequency of occurrence. There are 55 or 56.12% of the total data, 36 phrases or 36.73% of the total data, 5 abbreviations or 5.10% of the total data and acronym is the smallest frequency, there are 2 acronyms or 2.04% of the total data. Jargon in football sport has denotative and connotative meanings. The percentage of denotative meaning found in jargon in football sport is higher than connotative meaning. There are 96 or 97.96% denotative meanings of the total data and 2 connotative meanings or 2.04% of the total data. The functions of jargon in football sport are to give a person sense of belonging to a specific group, to make it easier for a person to communicate with their friends and to show effective signals for identification.

AN ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH DIALOGUE ON JOHN GRISHAM’S BLEACHERS

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This research is entitled “An Analysis of Structure of English Dialogue on John Grisham’s Bleachers”. It is intended to find out the forms of the dialogue, the components of dialogue and how the components of dialogue are interrelated in constructing the whole dialogue in Bleachers novel written by John Grisham.

The researcher uses descriptive-qualitative research design. She takes words, phrases, sentences as her data. In this research the researcher collects the data by using noting technique. The researcher analyzes the data using descriptive technique.

The research findings show that there are three forms of dialogue found in this study. They are open issue, guided issue, own hall meeting. While the public policy and learning circle are not found in this study. There are four kinds of the components of dialogue found in this study. They are personnel (side participants, bystanders, and eavesdroppers); common ground; joint action; and contribution. The components of dialogue are interrelated one another in constructing the whole dialogue. The interrelationship is built through adjacency pairs. They influence one another to be patterned unit when they are analyzed.

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