Andi Tenri Abeng
English Literature Departement Letters Faculty , Bosowa Univertsity

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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
Publisher : Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Bosowa

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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.
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.