Sudirman Maca
Program Studi Bahasa Inggris, Program Pascasarjana, Universitas Bosowa

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Journal : Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education

Cultural Assimilation among the Characters in Margaret Dillowy’s Novel “How to be an American Housewife” Amirul Hakim Kilwouw; Dahlia D. Moelier; Sudirman Maca
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Juni 2021
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The aims of the research are to find out the assimilation portrayed through the characters in the novel and to describe the impact of assimilation occurred towards the characters. The research applied the library research to get as many data from the novel and some books containing theories which connect to the research. The primary data was taken from Margaret Dilloway’s Novel “How to be an American Housewife”. The data was analyzed by using sociological approach and the theory of assimilation by Milton Gordon. The result shows that in the novel How to be an American Housewife can be found three models of assimilation. There are the classic and new assimilation model, the racial or disadvantaged model, and the segmented assimilation model. Besides that, Assimilation process give the big impacts towards the main character in the novel, Shoko and her daughter who grow up in the culture of American. The impacts cover almost all of life aspects of the Shoko then make her has no choice. She wants or not, like or dislike she has to accept the American culture and reduce her culture. She has to face many difficulties in daily life.
The Politeness Principle Actualization in Rodger and Hammerstein’s Drama “King and I” : A Politeness Study Bustan Hasan; Sudirman Maca; Dahlia D. Moelier
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Juni 2021
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The aims of the research are to find out and to examine the characters in the drama consider politeness principle when they make dialogue to others, especially in imperative dialogue, politeness types and strategy used by charactersm and factors that influence use of politeness principle. This research is library research by applying qualitative descriptive method and through pragmatic study. By use pragmatic study, the writer has to understand and pay attention well context of the dialogue in the drama. In this study the dialogue of the drama assumed as speech act and characters assumed as speech participant. The writer used Dell Hymes’ theory (1974)to analysis context of the dialogue. The writer also uses politeness principle theory of Geoffrey Leech (1983) and Speech acts theory of J.R. Searle (1969) to analysis the data. The result shows that the characters of the drama consider politeness principle when make imperative dialogue in specific setting. Most of the dialogues indicate applying politeness principle. Strategies that always applied are indirect scale, optionality scale, authority scale and cost-benefit scale. Significant factors that influence and determine the use of politeness principle are social background of participant or character, setting and scene, and end of speech or dialogue.
Figurative Meaning in Inaugural Speech of Joe Biden Nenny Kartika Dewi; Sudirman Maca; Andi Tenri Abeng
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Juni 2021
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This study aimed to discover and explain the types, lexical meaning and contextual meaning of figurative languages used in Joe Biden’s Inaugural speech and this study is hoped to be utilized by further researcher. The data sources used in this study was the inaugural speech of Joe Biden. Inanalyzing the data, the writer used descriptive qualitative research method through semantic approach. Data were obtained by using the techniques of reading, noting, and analyzing. While inclassifying the data, the writer used Keraf’s theory of figurative language. In this study, the writeranalyzed the inaugural speech of Joe Biden in order to find and classify the figurative language and the meaning. The results of this study indicate that there were 13figurative language used by Joe Biden. There were 6 types figurative language found in the speech consists of six metonym, one synecdoche, two simile, one epithet, two metaphor and one allusion. There were 26 meanings of the data consists of13 contextual meanings of the data which the meanings based from the context where the language is used. And 13 lexical meanings of the data were the meanings found in online dictionary.
Makassarese and English Affirmative Sentences Pattern : A Linguistic Contrastive Study A. Ardiansyah; Sudirman Maca; Syahriah Madjid
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Juni 2021
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This research aims to determine the differences between Makassarese and English structure. This research is a descriptive qualitative research with ten samples of native speakers of Makassarese in urban village of PAI, Biringkanaya Makassar. The method used is contrastive method and using sentence function theory from Verhaar and the theory of tree diagram from Bornstain. The results of this research indicate the existence of different Makassarese and English structurally in terms of sentence function. The affirmative sentences in Makassarese generally begins with the predicate (P) then followed by subject (S) whils English sentences begins with subject (S) then followed by predicate (P). Verb in Makassarese also cannot change or get modification because it is not affected by an adverb and context of the sentence. While the verb in English can change depending on an adverb and context of the sentence.
The Element of Politeness in Novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower Andi Tenriuji; Sudirman Maca; Andi Tenri Abeng
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Juni 2021
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The objective of this study were to analyze the type of politeness principle used and how the politeness principle use in the novel written by Stephen Chbosky. The data source used in this research is The Perks of Being a wallflower novel. In analyzing the data, the writer used a qualitative descriptive research method through a sociopragmatic approach. The data were obtained by using reading, collecting, and analyzing techniques and to classify the politeness principle in the novel by Geoffrey Leech theory. The result of this research were 28 utterance that contain maxim of politeness principle where 6 utterance of tact maxim, 2 utterance of generosity maxim, 5 utterances of approbation maxim, 5 utterances of modesty maxim, 6 utterance of agreement maxim and 4 utterance of sympathy maxim. Furthermore, the characters use the politeness by follow measurement of the pragmatic scale to express their politeness. Those pragmatic scale are the cost benefit scale, the optionally scale, indirectness scale and social distance scale.
Auggie’s Motivation Facing Discrimination in Wonder Novel By R.J Palacio Nurfajriani Nurfajriani; Sudirman Maca; Andi Tenri Abeng
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Desember 2021
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This study aims to discover the type of discrimination experienced by Auggie and how the psychological aspects of Auggie based on Abraham Maslow's theory in Wonder novel by R.J. Palacio. The data source used in this study was the novel Wonder. In analyzing the data, the writer used a qualitative research method through a psychology approach. Data were obtained by using reading, noting, and analyzing techniques. While in classifying and analyzing data, the writer used Abraham Maslow's theory. The writer found that the novel Wonder by R.J Palacio contained 13 data indicating that the character experienced discrimination there were 6 data direct discrimination and 7 data indirect discrimination, and 25 data indicating the Hierarchy of human needs. This data is divided into 5 types of needs. The first need was physiological needs with 4 data, the second is safety needs with 4 data, love and belonging needs with 6 data, esteem needs with 7 data, and self-actualization needs with 5 data.
Politeness Principle in H.G. Well’s Novel “The War of the Worlds” Dinda Sari; Dahlia D. Moelier; Sudirman Maca
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Desember 2021
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This Study aims to identify the type of politeness principle used by the character in the novel and to find out how the politeness principle that was used by the characters in the novel. The data source of the study is the novels In H.G Well’s The War of The World. In analyzing the data, the researcher used qualitative descriptive method and Maxim’s theory. Data were obtained by using the techniques of reading and analyzing. In this study, researcher found 19 data using 6 types of leech theory, namely tact maxim, modesty maxim, approbation maxim, agreement maxim, sympathy maxim, and generosity maxim. In using tact maxim the characters express it in a sincere way, in using modesty Maxim the characters used it by reducing self-praise, in using approbation maxim characters use it in a polite way of praising someone. The agreement maxim used by the characters for asking permission and agreeing, while sympathy maxim used by characters to to keep the people feeling, and generosity maxim for praising someone.
Depictions of Violence Racism in Ron Stallworth‘s Novel Black Klansman Rifyatul Azizah; Sudirman Maca; Andi Tenri Abeng
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Desember 2021
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The objectives of this study were to identify the depictions of violence racism and identify the impact of violence racism on African-America society in“Black Klansman” novel by Rons Stallworth.The data source used in this research is Black Klansman novel. In analyzing the data, the writer used a qualitative descriptive research method through sociological approach. The data were obtained by using reading, identified, noting and quoting, and collecting data techniques to classify the racism and the impact of racism in the novel Black Klansman by Swingewood and Setiadi theories with his classification of violence in narrow and broad sense. The result of this research there were 13 data that depicted of violence racism in “Black Klansman” novel by Ron Stallworth. 5 data contained the violence racism in narrow sense, 8 data of the violence racism in broad sense, and there were 9 data which include the impact of violence racism.
Judgement Modality In The Editorials Of The Epoch Times Newspaper Suci Sam; Dahlia D. Moelier; Sudirman Maca
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Desember 2021
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The purpose of this study was to determine the type of epistemic modality most frequently used and also to determine the speaker's attitude towards his editorial. The level of editorial confidence in the written editorial can be seen by looking at the use of verb modals which is epistemic modality. The writer assesses modality based on qualitatif method to describe the speaker’s attitude and quantitative to determine the type of modality that is the most often used. The data collection procedure was sourced from newspaper and used 43 editorial texts as the research sample. The results of this study found that the type of epistemic modality most often used was the assumptive type which reached 61,8%. The second is the speculative type with a percentage of 26,4%. The third is deductive type with a percentage of 8,9%. And the fourth is concessive type with a percentage of 2,9%. Apart from that, this study also found that the speaker's attitude was doubtful about his proposition when based only on possible conclusions. The speaker's attitude is confident in his proposition when it is based on a sound conclusion. The speaker's attitude of being confident and believing what is necessity to do is based on the only possible conclusion. And the speaker predicts something to be true when the speaker has evidence that contrasts with the proposition.
Interrogative Sentences In Torajanese And English: A Contrastive Study Erin Natal; Sudirman Maca; Andi Tenri Abeng
Humaniora: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): HUMANIORA: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education, Juni 2022
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This study aims to identify the forms of interrogative sentences in Torajanese and English structurally. This research is a descriptive qualitative research with the sample of native speakers of Torajanese in Pangala’ Village, North Toraja Regency. The method used in this research is contrastive method proposed by Tarigan. Then, for analyzed the types and forms of interrogative sentence the writer used the theory proposed by Quirk. The results of this research indicated that there were dominant differences in terms of sentence structure between Torajanese and English. The first types is Yes/No question, there are 8 forms of Interrogative sentences in Torajanese. Then, for the second types there are 7 forms of Wh-question. In the third types namely Alternative question there are 3 forms. Moreover, the differences from both languages were in placing the question word, in English it always begins with an Auxiliary verb or To Be and Wh-word. While, in Torajanese it was “Raka” which was equal to auxiliary verb, In Torajanese, it did not always begin in front of the sentence, but begins in the middle, and at the end of the sentence.