Lingua Cultura

Expressive Speech Act of British and American Culinary Review: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Study

2024-01-19T03:46:59+00:00

The research was conducted to uncover how American and British high school students utilize expressive speech acts for each other’s culinary representation. It examined the linguistic and cultural manifestations in which reviewers communicated their personal opinions and attitudes toward food. This research applied a descriptive-qualitative approach using Searle’s theory of the illocutionary point of speech act, which comprised the pragmatical characteristics focusing on the spoken form expression from both cultures. The data was collected from two video blogs from a YouTube channel called ‘Jolly’, with the title “British high-school students try American biscuits and gravy for the first time” and “Americans eat British comfort food for the first time” by using listening and note-taking techniques on the expressive speech act that occurred from the transcript of the video blog. The results show that both American and British high school students have expressive speech acts of surprise, preference, and disbelief. Yet, the unique traits of both cultures can be noticed in the way Americans express disgust while the British express humor.

Indonesians and Americans Bilingual Request Strategies in Indonesian and English

2024-02-15T03:49:41+00:00

In cross-cultural communication, there are several things that need to be considered in order to avoid misunderstanding such as the addressee’s knowledge, experience, culture, and value. Different kind of request strategies in intercultural communication between Indonesian and American could lead into misunderstanding. This study aims to investigate Indonesians' and Americans’ request strategies changing when they speak English and Indonesian. This study used qualitative research involving five Indonesian and American speakers who speak English and Indonesian fluently. The data were collected through multiple resources such as DCT with certain situation which was distributed to the participants and observation and interview during the meeting with the participants. The findings showed that Indonesians tended to be more direct when they made requests in Indonesian, while they changed into indirect request strategies when they made request in English, while American participants tended to be indirect when they made requests in English even though some of them were direct and they changed into direct strategies when they made a request in Indonesian. This study also reveals that Indonesians tend to be more direct than Americans when they used their native language and it contradicts other studies that say Indonesians tend to use Indirect request and this also influenced American in the way they made a request in Indonesian. Therefore, it is suggested that having intercultural knowledge is important in language learning in order to avoid misunderstanding due to the differences of norms, values, and belief.

Critical Discourse Analysis on Representation of Arab Spring in the Movie Alephia 2053

2024-01-04T09:58:20+00:00

The research aimed to find out the representation of the Arab Spring and describes the forms of social dimensions in the movie Alephia. Alephia 2053 is a movie that tells the story of an Arab country in the future that still adheres to a monarchical system of government. The story in Alephia 2053 has similarities to events that have occurred in Arab countries. The reality is the chaos that occurred in Arab countries a few years ago, known as the Arab Spring. This research was designed using descriptive qualitative research method with norma on fairclough critical discourse analysis approach. The data analysis technique used is to analyze the data descriptively using Norman Fairclough's perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis theory. The research, finding reveal that the Arab Spring’s representation in the movie Alephia 2053 in the form of a government coup and the democracy slogan action. The finding also indicate social dimensions as follows (a) in the text dimension there are eleven words that are fought for and contain forms of representation, relationships and identity; (b) in discursive practice there are three data contents that supporting evidence of the ideological words; (c) in sociocultural practices there are relations, social and cultural processes in the form of information in the form of binary opposition between the regime, state officials and the people which describes three levels of sociocultural practices, namely situational, institutional and social levels.

Revisiting Franco Moretti’s Concept and Practice of Literary Geography

2024-01-05T02:58:45+00:00

Franco Moretti, an influential Italian literary critic, has made significant contributions to the field of literary geography, a cross-disciplinary theory that utilizes geographical methods to analyze and understand literary and cultural materials. Moretti’s approach to literary geography diverges from traditional and orthodox methods, offering a fresh perspective. This paper applies a qualitative method with a close-reading approach to evaluate and explore Moretti’s conceptualization and implementation of literary geography through a systematic three-step research process. The first step involves identifying the intellectual and theoretical sources of inspiration that have influenced Moretti’s work. The second step focuses on illuminating Moretti’s innovative understanding and interpretation of literary geography as well as his integration of literary map into the analysis of literature. Lastly, the paper investigates two case studies to further exemplify Moretti’s practices in the field of literary geography. The first case study regards Jane Austen’s fictions, where Moretti’s approach unveils Austen’s geographical imagination of Britain in her novels. The second one centers on Mary Mitford’s Our Village, where Moretti discovers the circular narrative pattern. By undertaking these three comprehensive steps, this paper offers valuable insights into the conceptual and methodological dimensions of literary geography. Additionally, it endeavors to cultivate a deeper appreciation for the interdisciplinary nature of literary geography, thereby inspiring scholars and researchers to delve further into the intersections between geography, literature and culture.