MAKING MEANING USING SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND VISUAL GRAMMAR ANALYSIS: COMPARISON OF SOURCE TEXT AND TARGET TEXT REFLECTED IN THE MAIN CHARACTER OF GRAPHIC NOVEL V FOR VENDETTA

This research presents a project designed to investigate a systemic way of analyzing metafunctions’ shifts between source texts and target texts using systemic functional linguistic (SFL) collaborated with visual grammar (VS; systemic functional approach for images). The study tries to examine the correlation between verbal and visual systems and how it affects the making of meaning in graphic novel. The research is descriptive qualitative with embedded case study. The data is acquired from monologue and dialogue uttered by main character of the first graphic novel book V for Vendetta. Content analysis, questionnaire and focus group discussion are conducted to obtain necessity data. The results shows there are shifts in transitivity structure, lexical items, and clauses' interdependency undergo ideational metafunction, modality system and discourse marker shifts undergo interpersonal metafunction, thematic structures, cohesion devices, physical presentation shifts undergo textual metafunction. Also shifts in target text caused by context of visual structure in representational metafunction and compositional metafunction. Those shifts demonstrate meaning changed in target text and can be identified in each metafunctions. The metafunction representational and ideational deal with interpreting content, form, context and symbolized expression in graphic novel. The shifts in transitivity structure and lexical items are caused by intertextuality and the theatricality in the content, form, context and symbolized expression of V for vendetta graphic novel. Interpersonal metafunction relates with enacting social relation. Whereas textual and compositional metafunction deal with organizing text/images, contextualizing the narrative scope and build reading order

Reconfiguring Ideal Masculinity: Gender Politics in Indonesian Cinema

My thesis examines Indonesian filmmakers' struggles in undermining the hegemonic ideal, bapakism. It focuses on the crucial years of 2000-2014. Profound socio-political and economic shifts had forced changes to Indonesia's official patterning of gender relations during the period. Consequently, the changes provoked a requestioning of what constituted ideal masculinity, as well as femininity in Indonesia. So far, inadequate scholarly attention has been paid to the workings of power and class dimensions underlying the rejuvenated gender politics to secure hegemonic masculinity, especially in popular culture. Commercial cinema was, and still is, one of the most crucial arenas in popular culture, in which political agents-primarily urban, highly educated middle classes-sought to legitimise alternative ideals or to reinforce the existing hegemonic masculinity. My thesis is interested in exploring commercial filmmakers' choices, negotiations and compromises in shaping what could be represented and idealised on Indonesian commercial cinema at this given time. Taking into account the flourishing of the 'new man' on-screen, I decided to use the filmmakers' struggles to legitimise this alternative ideal in commercial cinema as my analytic lens. The 'new man' challenges the hegemonic bapakism's valorisation of breadwinning, authoritative patron leadership and heteronormativity. Combining textual analysis, field research and interface ethnography, I argue that commercial filmmakers struggled to innovate and experiment with alternative ideals which promoted equal and fluid gender relations on the big screen. Yet, the filmmakers' struggles were overshadowed by middle-class biases and moral panic

Intimacy as a Concept: Explaining Social Change in the Context of Globalisation or Another Form of Ethnocentricism?

This article focuses on intimacy in terms of its analytical potential for understanding social change without the one-nation blinkers sometimes referred to as 'methodological nationalism' and without Euro-North-American ethnocentrism. Extending from the concept of family practices, practices of intimacy are sketched and examples considered across cultures. The cultural celebration and use of the term 'intimacy' is not universal, but practices of intimacy are present in all cultures. The relationship of intimacy to its conceptual relatives is clarified. A brief discussion of subjectivity and social integration restates the relevance of intimate relationships and practices of intimacy to understanding social change in an era of globalisation, despite the theoretical turn away from embodied face to face relationships. Illustrations concerning intimacy and social change in two areas of personal life, parental authority and gender relations, indicate that practices of intimacy can re-inscribe inequalities such as those of age, class and gender as well as subvert them and that attention to practices of intimacy can assist the need to explain continuity as well as change.Love and Intimacy, Globalization, Ethnocentric, Social Change, Inequality, Discourse, Family Practices

The comparison of cultural values analysis of Joker Movie and Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak movie and its contribution in Cross-Cultural Understanding teaching

The objectives of the research is to discover the cultural values found in Joker and Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak movies, to find the differences in cultural values in Joker and Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak movies, to find out the contribution of the cultural value analysis from those two movies to the Cross-Cultural Understanding teaching. This research is conducted by utilizing the descriptive qualitative method. The data collected by download the movie from the website. The researcher was collecting and observing the data to find the Cultural value, the dimensional cultural value from both movies, and their contribution in cross-cultural understanding. The object of the research is divide into three-point. The first point is that the type of cultural value theory used, there was a cultural value stated by Geert Hofstede (2010) Dimension of Culture theory. To be more specific there are 18 American cultural values for “Joker” and 10 for “Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak”, the results of Indonesian cultural values are 16 for “Joker”, 19 for “Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak”.The second researcher’s results are to discover the differences in cultural values in the “Joker” and “Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak” movies. Hofstede Insights Country Comparison variables consist of six dimensions; power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, long-term orientation, indulgence, and masculinity. In the third research result, the researcher elaborates the advantages of the contribution of the cultural value analysis from those two movies in this study to Cross-Cultural Understanding. There are as a reference for the Cross-Cultural Understanding teaching method and as a reading source of cultural value analysis

An Investigation of Department of English Education Students' Awareness Toward English Taboo Language

This study investigated the Department of English Education students' awareness toward English taboo language and the source of where the students know the English taboo language from. The population of this research was the students of Department of English Education who already took the Cross Cultural Understanding class. Furthermore, 60 students were selected as the sample of the research through simple random sampling. To elicit the data on the selected sample's awareness toward English taboo language, a three-page questionnaire was used as the instrument of data collection. The answers of the questionnaires were presented in the percentage calculation and discussed in narrative explanation. The result showed that the students' awareness toward English taboo language was moderate and the source of where the students know English taboo language were mostly from movies, followed by friends, internet, social media, television,songs, books, radio, and newspape

Studying soap operas

This present issue of Communication Research Trends will focus on research about soap operas published in the last 15 years, that is, from the year 2000 to the present. This more recent research shows one key difference: the interest in soap opera has become worldwide. This appears in the programs that people listen to or watch and in communication researchers who themselves come from different countries