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STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING CULTURE-SPECIFIC TERMS Jepri Jepri
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature
Publisher : Faculty of Letters Universitas Balikpapan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v3i1.15

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This research is the study of the difficulties faced by students of semester V faculty of Letters, Balikpapan University in translating a culture-specifictext from English to Indonesian Language. The research is qualitative; datacollecting is done by distributing the text contains American culture ofbaseball sports to translate and interviewing students to identify theirdifficulties. From the result, it is concluded that the difficulties faced bystudents in translating the texts is caused by their lack of understanding ofthe Source Language culture, in this case , the baseball sports, their poorknowledge of the sport itself and their low experience in reading adiscourse from the same context. It is recommended for translation subjectlecturer to provide students a broad knowledge of the cultural context ofsource language to help them improve their translation skills.
A Maxim of Violation as a Portray of Personality in the Novel The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker Evin Istiqomah Arisandy; Jepri Jepri; Adi Prautomo
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 5 No. 2 (2019): Prologue : Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v5i2.42

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This research explores how the maxim violation can portray personality of characters inthe novel The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker. The researchobjectives are; to find out the types of maxim violations appear in the novel and to knowhow maxim violation can portray personality of the characters in the novel The ThreeButton Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker. The theories used in this research aremaxim violation introduced by Paul Grice as the main theory conducted to explain aboutthe maxim violation phenomena. Besides that, Personality Traits Theory as known as ‘ FiveFactor Theory’ by McCrae and Costa to depict the personality owned by the characterswho violate maxims in the novel The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by NicolaBarker. As the result of the research, the researcher found that maxim violation, behaviorsand personality are interchangeable and interconnected. At the time a speaker performsmaxim violation by which generate other interpretation of what it is said withincommunication, the utterance apparently portrays the speaker’s personality throughout themeaning, true intention and behavior it is conveyed.
The Relation of Maxim Flouting Used to Illocutionary Function of Politeness in 12 Years a Slave Movie Zain Nabilah Anjani; Jepri Jepri; Siti Hafsah
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020): Prologue : Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v6i1.50

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This research explores types of maxim flouting in 12 Years A Slave’s Movie and aims to identify the types of maxim flouting in 12 Years A Slave movie and to seek out the relation of maxim flouting to the illocutionary function of politeness. The pragmatic analysis using H. P. Grice’s theory of maxim flouting is used with descriptive methodology. The movie scripts were taken as the primary data. Researcher found that there are four types of maxim flouting performed by Solomon Northup; and the relation of maxim flouting to the illocutionary function of politeness are competitive, collaborative, convivial, and conflictive.
Self Defense Mechanism as an Overcoming Tool of Anxiety in the Novel Me Before You Terry Angela Monica; jepri jepri; Ulum Janah
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020): Prologue : Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v6i1.51

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This research focuses on the psychology of a character in the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. There are two objectives in this study; 1). To find out the types of anxiety experienced by the character in the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and; 2). To explain how self-defense mechanism works to overcome anxiety in the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. This study uses Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory regarding anxiety and defense mechanism; the methodology employed is qualitative research in which the researcher tried to present the issues descriptively. The main data sources in this study were taken from the form of dialogs, descriptions, and sentences contained in the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. The results of this study, the researcher concluded that there were three types of anxiety experienced by the character in the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, namely neurotic, moral and realistic anxiety. To overcome this anxiety the character uses four types of defense mechanisms namely displacement, reaction formation, rationalization, and sublimation. The most effective type of self-defense mechanism to overcome the anxieties that arise in character is rationalization because an individual where the reality that is lived is all based on logic and rationality.
The Use of Taboo Words in The Bad Boys II Movie Ayu Asmidah; Jepri Jepri; Rosmiati Rosmiati
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 7 No. 2 (2021): Prologue : Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v7i2.58

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This research aims to analyze taboo words in the Bad Boys II movie. The objective of this research is to identify the types of taboo words that are mostly found in the Bad Boys II movie. The theory used in this research is Sociolinguistics by Wardhaugh theory of types of taboo words. The methodology employed is qualitative approach specifically is used in this research, with the researcher as the main instrument to collect data in form of dialogue from Bad Boys II by watching the movie repeatedly and the researcher analyzes and interprets the data to reach based on the taboo words and its functions proposed by Wardhaugh. The findings of the research are dominated by bodily functions; the numbers of the data is ten data, the others are religious matters, and certain game animals, the first is eight data and the letter is three data those taboo eight words provoke a chaotic reaction.
The Effects of Learning Disabilities of a Dyslexic toward Social Relationship in the Movie Like Stars on Earth Indira Karina Putri; Siti Hafsah; Jepri Jepri
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020): Prologue : Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v6i2.62

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Hermeneutics in this study is a theory that gives an interpretation of meanings and symbolsthat are interpreted as manifestations of a child's social relations with dyslexia. Humansthrough their minds like the ability to have a normal social life like in general with culturalnorms and understandings that he considers correct by using interpretation as a tool forvarious purposes; one of the goals is to communicate with others as a form of adaptation tothe environment. The study has significant value and can be motivated by the daily lives ofchildren with dyslexia which is considered intelligent and normal people in general. Themethod in this study uses a qualitative descriptive research method with hermeneutics byPaul Ricoeur's theory, with two perspectives namely interpretations and symbols. From thisresearch, the researcher found several symbols that must be interpreted so that the meaningcontained in them can be understood, where this movie provides motivation for parents orchildren with dyslexia.
Revealing Women’s Suffering through Displacing Meaning in William Blake’s Poems Andi Ramadhan; Wahyuni Wahyuni; Jepri Jepri
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): Prologue : Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v7i1.65

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This thesis explores the displacing meaning to reveal women’s suffering in William Blake’s poems such as: “The Sick Rose”, “Earth’s Answer”, “My Pretty Rose Tree”, “London” and “Ah Sunflower”. There are two objectives of this research, they are to find the types of displacing and to find the displacing meaning to reveal women’s suffering. The theory used in this research is the semiotic analysis using Riffaterre’s theory of displacing meaning caused by metaphor and metonymy in the form of personification, simile, and synecdoche in his book Semiotics of Poetry. The methodology employed is qualitative research in which the researcher tried to present the issues descriptively. As for the data, they were collected from the displacing meaning. The poems were taken out as the primary data. The results of the research, the researcher found that the types of displacing meaning in thematic William Blake’s poem caused by metaphor, metonymy, personification, synecdoche, and the displacing meaning reveal women’s suffering in the form of mental and physical suffering which includes sadness, disgust, selfishness, restraints, jealousy, fear, abuse, violence, unsound, evil, death, poverty, and disease.
The Influence of Metaphor as Flouting Maxim in the Novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Dwi Husna; Jepri; Muhammad Adam
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature
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The scope of the study is the limitation of the focus of the research. This research is focused on the metaphor found in flouting maxims and the way metaphor influences the emotion of characters in the novel The Fault in Our Stars. There are some aspects pragmatics that influenced human language. The researcher tries to find the implied meaning by analyzing the flouting maxim in the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The type of research is descriptive qualitative study. In this research, the source of primary data is derived from a novel entitled The Fault in Our Stars by John Green was published in 2012. In this research, the researcher analyses implicature in the novel, such as words, clauses, sentences, and conversations between characters, and flouting maxims. Identifying and selecting the data based on the types of metaphor and flouting maxims. Findings of this research are 20 excerpts metaphor in floating maxim. They are 8 excerpts categorized in structural metaphor, 9 excerpts categorized in ontology metaphor, and 3 excerpts categorized in orientational metaphor. These metaphors are found from 11 flouting maxim of manner, 4 flouting maxim of quality and 5 flouting maxim of quantity.
The Representation of Syntactic Meaning as the Environmental Symbolic Reality in the Novel The Lorax by Dr. Seuss Nur Ari Ramadhan; Jepri
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v9i1.79

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The research discusses about the syntactic meaning in the syntax category that is specifically included in the form of ecolexicon, representing the environmental symbolic reality. The syntax categories are focused on elaborating the phrases and sentences consisting of the specific ecolexicon: biotic and abiotic references. This research is focused on the syntactic meaning that represents the environmental symbolic reality found in The Lorax novel by Dr. Seuss. There are two objectives for the purpose of this research, 1) to identify the forms of the syntactic meaning of the environment in the novel The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and 2) to describe the forms of syntactic meaning representing the environmental symbolic reality in The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. This research uses the Ecolinguistics theory from Fill & Mühlhäusler. The researcher uses a qualitative method explaining descriptively based on this research using a library study as a reference. The research's result found ten forms of syntactic meaning divided into six phrases with 14 data and four sentences with 19 data. Then, the representation of the environmental symbolic reality consists of Waste Disposal and Pollution with 11 data, Endangered Species 10 data, Climate Change 1 data, Water 1 data, and Deforestation 10 data.
Cultural Equivalence Translation: Revealing the Intercultural Bataknese, Indonesian and English Proverbs Jepri
Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v9i1.103

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The significance of cultural equivalence translation in showing the cross-cultural meanings and values ingrained in English, Indonesian, and Bataknese proverbs is discussed in this article. The beliefs, values, and worldviews of the communities who produce proverbs are reflected in them, making proverbs an essential source of cultural information. Proverbs frequently make use of idiomatic terms, metaphors, and references that are culturally specific, making it difficult to translate them from one language to another. The focus analysis of proverbs from Bataknese, Indonesian and English to underline 1) the significance of comprehending the cultural setting in which these proverbs are created and employed. 2) The underlying meanings and values of these proverbs can be discovered, as well as the ways in which they represent the attitudes and beliefs of their distinct cultures, through the process of cultural equivalence translation. This paper applies the Cultural Equivalence Translation theory to reveal the intercultural of the proverbs and descriptive analysis method. This study finds that the potential of proverb study to 1) increase intercultural understanding and communication, 2) improve language learning, and 3) contribute to a more inclusive, tolerant, and 4) peaceful global community.
Co-Authors Adi Prautomo Andi Ramadhan Ayu Asmidah Dwi Husna Evin Istiqomah Arisandy Indira Karina Putri Muhammad Adam Mutiara Fisabella Nur Ari Ramadhan Qori Annisa rosmiati rosmiati Siti Hafsah Terry Angela Monica Ulum Janah Wahyuni Wahyuni Zain Nabilah Anjani