Kamis, 29 Mei 2025

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS AND DELIVERANCE STRATEGIES OF WANGSALAN IN JAVANESE SONG LYRICS


I Dewa Putu Wijana
Faculty of Cultural Sciences Gadjah Mada University

Abstract

This study deals with wangsalan found in Javanese song lyrics with attention focus on their communicative functions and deliverance strategies. By using very small amount of data of Javanese songs exploiting wangsalan, it is found that this traditional formula are mainly functioned to convey directive, expressive, and representative functions, and seems not specifically be used to express commisive, question, and let alone declaration functions. Declarative functions are exploited to convey command, advice, and prohibition. There are various strategies used by the speakers in exploiting wangsalan. Those are implicit, direct, indirect, literal, and expressed strategies. Explicit, non-literal, and implied strategies are rarely used because they will unease the addressee comprehend the intention formula.
Key terms: wangsalan, traditional formula, communicative function, and deliverance strategy

Minggu, 25 Mei 2025

Analysis Model in Critical Pragmatics

 Analysis Model in Critical Pragmatics 

Ramdan Sukmawan, Dadang Suganda , Nani Darmayanti, Muhamad Adji

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia

Email: ramdan18001@mail.unpad.ac.id

ABSTRACT

Pragmatics examines human language use. The study in pragmatics continues to develop by involving other fields of science, that Cummings (2005) mentions pragmatics in multidisciplinary scope. The study is not only limited to micropragmatics but also in macropragmatics that concerns to language use in sociocultural (Chen, 2020, p. 10). The studies of pragmatics keep exploring in teaching academic writing (Harwood & Hadley, 2004), ESL of classroom talk in a High School (Talmy, 2010), and discursive power and dominance (Melefa et al., 2014). The studies are called critical pragmatics. The critical pragmatics studies try to investigate language use not only in what it is but in what language it is as well. The paper aims at describing analysis models in critical pragmatics. The research methodology applied descriptive qualitative to comprehend the use of analysis models. Analysis model in critical pragmatics applied analysis approach which combined pragmatics study and other study, they are (1) pragmatics, critical pragmatics, and critical in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), (2) conversation analysis (CA) and Fairclough critical discourse analysis (CDA), (3) analysis critical pragmatics in the framework of Fairclough critical discourse analysis (CDA), (4) pragmatics and critical discourse analysis (CDA), (5) critical discourse analysis (CDA) and pragmatics, and (6) critical issues in language use in works of pragmatic phenomena to find ideology. 

Keywords: analysis, critical pragmatics, models

https://conference.inapra.org/index.php/conference/article/view/17


Jumat, 23 Mei 2025

IMRAD, synthesis, and hedging within expert academic writing to encourage a world discussion platform

IMRAD, synthesis, and hedging within expert academic writing to encourage a world discussion platform

Jumanto Jumanto, Dwi Eko Waluyo, Aris Puji Purwatiningsih, Pulung Nurtantio Andono, Raden Arief Nugroho, Ismarita Ramayanti, Asnul Dahar Bin Minghat

Abstract


This paper examines IMRAD, synthesis, and hedging within expert academic writing to encourage a world discussion platform and to enhance manuscript writing for internationally reputable journals. The research utilized 25 Quartile-1 Scopus-indexed articles from 25 scholarly journals from 2022 and 2023 publications across different subject areas. Through online searching, observation, and interpretive techniques, the patterns of IMRAD, its synthesis, and the use of hedging within the synthesis were analyzed and identified as crucial elements for creating a manuscript that serves as a world discussion platform. Based on the systematic observation and interpretation of the 25 data sources, the research findings were discussed across three aspects: the IMRAD pattern, synthesis, and hedging. The findings revealed that symmetrical IMRAD patterns were rarely employed by authors of Quartile-1 Scopus-indexed journals, with various patterns being applied and the largest proportion focusing on different aspects. Synthesis was utilized by all authors of the 25 journal articles, and hedging or cautious language was used by most authors. Authors worldwide may benefit from the results of this research when writing manuscripts to be submitted to internationally reputable journals. Additionally, academic writing teachers can use the proposed interpretive model and research results to teach expert academic writing to their students, thus enhancing the quality of student academic writing and enabling the publication of their papers in internationally reputable journals.

Keywords

academic writing; cautious language; interpretive model; world discussion place; Scopus

Sabtu, 03 Mei 2025

Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness: The Javanese linguistic interaction example





Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness: The Javanese linguistic interaction example

Norwanto Norwanto | Universitas Islam Negeri Salatiga

This study aims at examining the evaluation of impoliteness not manifested in utterances or actions. The focus is on how speaker-hearers conceal their negative evaluation and the reasons underlying their behavior. The data were collected from a WhatsApp group conversation, from a Focus Group discussion with WhatsApp group members, and through questionnaires. The study approaches the data using relational work and rapport management theories. The study shows that hearers conceal the evaluation of impoliteness by affiliating with the topics evaluated positively instead of negatively evaluated utterances. The behavior can cause contested meanings of unmarked utterances between the hearers and the speakers. Although speakers perceive their utterances as politic or appropriate, the hearers observe them negatively. Furthermore, the Focus Group discussion showed that the WhatsApp Group members conducted the unspoken evaluation of impoliteness to maintain the equanimity of social relationships. The questionnaires indicated that concealing negative evaluation is a recurrent action of native speakers of Javanese.

Selasa, 29 April 2025

Politeness and Camaraderie: How Types of Form Matter in Indonesian Context

 Politeness and Camaraderie: How Types of Form Matter in Indonesian Context

Jumanto
Abstract
This article is about politeness and camaraderie through pragmatic viewpoints within Indonesian context. A language, the writer argues, should be directed to politeness (distant language) and camaraderie (close language), the two varieties of language use in some diglossic speech situation. The writer’s arguments are, among others, that distant language is formal, indirect, and non-literal, and that close language is informal, direct, and literal. Distant language is spoken to hearers with power factor, while close language is spoken to hearers with solidarity factor. Ignorance or incompetence of this may cause impoliteness, i.e. rude situations or awkward situations in interpersonal interactions. This tendency elaborates pragmatic viewpointsfrom Goffman’spositive and negative face [1], Brown and Levinson’s positive and negative politeness strategies[2], Renkema’s solidarity and respect politeness[3],Jumanto’s friendship and politeness[4],[5], and types of hearer elaborated by Brown and Gilman[6]and advocated by Jumanto[5]. Examples in the Indonesian language, based on a simple emic research, are given to support the everyday-use-of-Indonesian-language arguments. 

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