Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN SULTANZADAH'S NOVEL 'SHAM-E AKHIR-E AFGHANI' (2021)

Noria Mohammadi — Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This research addresses institutional racism in Afghanistan, focusing on Mohammad Asif Sultanzadah's novel entitled Sham-e Akhir-e Afghani (2021). Utilizing the theoretical framework of institutional racism from Carmichael and Hamilton (1967), this study employs a qualitative approach with textual analysis as the primary tool. In the novel, Sultanzadah’s narrative highlights institutional racism perpetrated by extremist Pashtuns (Taliban) and Afghan government against Hazaras. Findings indicate that racism persists in Afghan society, with Hazaras that differ in ethnicity, religion, and culture, experiencing significant discrimination, particularly in various social settings. While Pashtuns are seen as a superior democratic power condemning individual racism, Hazaras face systemic racial discrimination in education, relationships, housing, and the economic system. This study underscores the urgent need to address institutional racism in Afghanistan.

INCONGRUITY AND DISPARAGEMENT HUMOR IN MR. BEAN'S NONVERBAL LANGUAGE

Nurhidayanto — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This descriptive-qualitative research aimed to descriptively interpret Mr. Bean’s nonverbal language cues which fulfilled incongruity and disparagement humor. The method of analyzing the data was content analysis with input-process-output of analytical construct. The results of analysis reveal that Mr. Bean's gestures bring about movements that direct to implicature. From 88 units of analysis, there are found 62 fragments violating and only 4 fragments adhering to conventional meanings. Meanwhile, dealing with cooperative principles, there are 20 fragments violating and only 2 adhere to the principles. On the other hand, the nonverbal language cues demonstrated by Mr. Bean comprises gesture (88 times), facial expression (83), eye behavior (83), touching (28), posture (26), privacy (21), territory (21), distance (21), chronemics (9), space (8), artefactual (7), and bodily attractiveness (2). This study suggests that making humor through nonverbal language cues can provide benefits in creating a vivid learning atmosphere.

THE DIFFERENCES IN MEANING BETWEEN MUSLIM WOMEN'S MODEST CLOTHING AND WOMEN'S CLOTHING ADVERTORIALS

Reza Anggriyashati Adara, Annisa Fadliyah, Winda Primasari — Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Modest fashion has progressed positively in the last two decades. Designers and advertisers are trying to attract modest fashion’s consumers. One of the mediums to promote it is by advertorials. Analyzing words and phrases used in advertorials can help advertisers, practitioners and other concerned parties to understand how advertorials are written. Using Leech’s theory toward meanings, this study aimed to analyze and compare the differences between the advertorials of Muslim women modest clothing and women's clothing from semantic perspective. This study applied a descriptive qualitative approach by analyzing four advertorials of women’s modest, formal, and casual clothing. The results of this study show that the advertorials of modest clothing seem to use a thematic meaning by creating the images of comforted and elegant looking Muslim women in modest clothes. On the other hand, the advertorials of women’s formal and casual clothing look to portray the wearers as sexy and confident women. Although both types of advertorials give meanings with empowering themes, they explore different aspects of empowerment to give understanding toward their potential consumers.

CHARACTER DEPICTION WITH BEHAVIORAL PROCESS IN 'NOUVELLES VERTES' SHORT STORIES

Gilang Tegar Prasetyo, Sajarwa — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This study aims to describe the forms of clauses with behavioral processes that explain characterizations in the short story anthology Nouvelles Vertes, and the characterization techniques realized by the behavioral processes. This research uses a descriptive approach with qualitative method. The data of this research are clauses that explain characterization with behavioral process in the short stories of Nouvelles Vertes anthology. This research uses the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday and Matthiesen (2014) and characterization technique by Nurgiyantoro (2018). The results show that there are three types of behavioral processes used to explain characterization, i.e. verbal, mental, and physical. The characterization techniques realized with behavioral processes are in the form of character reaction techniques and thoughts and feelings techniques. The tendency to use behavioral processes with character reaction techniques shows that each event in the short story directly affects the character's behavior in terms of speech, actions, and feelings.