The Speech Act Study on the English Advertising Slogans in Indonesia’s TV Stations

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This research entitled “The Speech Act Study on the English Advertising Slogans in Indonesia’s TV Stations” is intended to find out the types of the speech acts found in English advertising slogans in Indonesia’s TV stations, and to find out the levels of the speech acts found in English advertising slogans in Indonesia’s TV stations.

A CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS ON J.K.ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS:

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The title of this paper is A CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS ON J.K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS: A PRAGMATIC STUDY. In this paper, the writer discusses conversational implicature in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The objectives of the study are to identify the implicature utterances uttered by the characters in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, to describe the implied meaning uttered by the characters in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and to describe the cooperative principles occur in the conversation of the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

 

An Analysis of Tourism Jargon Used in Tourism Department in SMK NEGERI 4 Yogyakarta

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This research entitled “An Analysis of Tourism Jargon Used in Tourism Department in SMK NEGERI 4 Yogyakarta” is intended to describe the forms of tourism jargon, the meaning of tourism jargon and the function of tourism jargon used in SMK NEGERI 4 Yogyakarta.

  

This study belongs to descriptive qualitative research. It does not use statistical procedures, and the use of qualitative research is suitable with the method of analyzing data in this research. The data are taken from the students of SMK NEGERI 4 Yogyakarta, internet and other books. In collecting the data the researcher used observation and interview method. This research used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. 

The result of the research shows that the forms of tourism jargon in SMK N 4 Yogyakarta, are: words, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations. Concerning the functions of tourism jargon the researcher found four functions of tourism jargon, they are: (1) to exclude lay people or novices, (2) to use for social identification, (3) to serve the purpose of bonding friendship, and (4) to make the communication effective and efficient. Researcher found two kinds of meaning in tourism jargon, namely connotative and denotative meaning.

AN ANALYSIS ON JARGON LANGUAGE USED IN DAVID WILKERSON’S THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY

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The research entitled An Analysis on Jargon Language Used in David Wilkerson’s The Cross and The Switchblade is intended to find out the types, the meanings, and the functions of jargon in The Cross and The Switchblade novel by David Wilkerson.