The Students’ Perspectives on Observing Language Use in Social Media as Social Practice

In this digital era, college students have become familiar with social media such as Facebook, twitter, and Instagram. For English Letters Students, they also use English when updating their status, tweeting their thought, or giving captions in their photos. That phenomenon results in the students’ interest in analyzing language use in social media, proven by some theses examining social media as the data. It means that the students have started to observe English language and literacy as social practice, for example is when a student observed English Letters students’ grammatical errors in their social media accounts. That fact reveals the student’s awareness of the importance of English language and literacy as social practice. A questionnaire was distributed to 64 students who take Language Research Methodology Class. Most of them access Instagram and Facebook in their daily life and spend half of their day accessing the media. Their activities involve reading posts on information and observe comments in the form of sentences. Pedagogical implication of the students’ responses was teachers should bring social issues which happen in society in which the students live to build their critical thinking. Therefore, the students are involved in social practice while developing their critical literacy

PARADIGMA FUNGSIONAL DALAM EKOLINGUISTIK

Ekolinguistik sebagai cabang dari linguistik yang akhir-akhir ini sering ditemukan dalam publikasi ilmiah belum secara mendalam didiskusikan dari segi paradigma yang mendasarinya. Artikel ini berargumen bahwa ekolinguistik merupakan hasil dari perkembangan paradigma fungsional yang dipelopori oleh Malinowski, seorang antropolog yang kemudian meneruskan pemikirannya kepada J.R. Firth dan M.A.K. Halliday. Secara spesifik, artikel ini menyajikan pembahasan unsur-unsur paradigma fungsional dalam ekolinguistik dengan mengadopsi teori paradigma dalam ilmu budaya menurut Ahimsa-Putra (2009). Dengan pendekatan kajian pustaka, tulisan ini mengumpulkan berbagai kajian mengenai fungsionalisme dan ekolinguistik dari berbagai buku dan jurnal internasional. Artikel ini mengungkapkan bahwa ekolinguistik merupakan pengejawantahan prinsip positivisme yang berlandaskan pada pengamatan terhadap perilaku masyarakat yang hidup dalam sebuah jaring-jaring yang terdiri dari manusia, lingkungan fisik, budaya, sistem, dan fungsi-fungsi di dalam suatu masyarakat. Ekolinguistik memiliki beberapa tujuan, diantaranya menjelaskan pengaruh keberagaman biologi terhadap keberagaman bahasa, mengungkap pengaruh kerusakan ekologi terhadap kepunahan bahasa, menggali praktik-praktik ekologis terhadap kearifan lokal, dan menjelaskan pengaruh bahasa terhadap perilaku manusia terhadap lingkungan sekitarnya. Artikel ini merekomendasikan pembahasan lebih lanjut mengenai kajian filosofis dalam ekolinguistik

SPEECH AND THOUGHT PRESENTATION IN JHUMPA LAHIRI'S INTERPRETER OF MALADIES

This research focuses on analyzing speech and thought presentation in the story by means of stylistic approach proposed by Leech and Short (2007). There are two main objectives in this research: (1) to find out speech and thought presentation techniques used in the story and (2) to figure out how those techniques reveal the characterization of the story. Three types of speech presentation were found in the analysis: Free Direct Speech (FDS) in 56%, Direct Speech (DS) in 41%, and Indirect Speech (IS) in 3%. Indirect Thought (IT) is the only thought presentation found in the data, presented in 15 utterances. Those presentation techniques reveal that Lahiri lets the readers involved in the story. FDS shows that the absence of the narrator in the dialogues is influenced by clarity of the context. By employing IT in the whole thought presentation, Lahiri involves herself in the character’s consciousness. Keywords: speech, thought, presentation, stylistic