THE LOGICAL INTERPRETATION AND MORAL VALUES OF CULTURE-BOUND JAVANESE UTTERANCES USING THE WORD “OJO” SEEN FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTIC POINT OF VIEW

This paper attempts to uncover the logical meaning and moral messages contained in several old Javanese wise-words that are seemingly contextual to the current state of oursocial engagement. This endeavor is enacted through the prism of anthropological linguisticsas it is posited closer to the cultural domain in which the language is employed. This actuallycan be seen from another sub-field of linguistics, sociolinguistics. So as to refrain fromoverlapping, a simple definition of anthropological linguistics is worth mentioning to reaffirmhat the discussion is on the right track. Anthropological linguistics (Foley, 2001) viewsanguage through the prism of the core anthropological concept, culture, and, as such, seekso unveil the meaning behind the use, misuse or non-use of language, its different forms,registers, and styles. It is an interpretative discipline at language to find culturalunderstandings. Substantially, this paper aims to revitalize the old wisdom phrased in theJavanese language which we are now apparently inclined to forget. Likewise, this means toscrutinize its typical language patterns mostly preceded by the word ―Ojo‖ such as OjoKagetan, Ojo Gumunan, Ojo Dumeh, etc. The three expressions, for instance, are veryrelevant to represent the current state of affairs which long for peacefulness, prosperity, andwisdom. The data of such kind are obtained from interview with the sample of twenty culturelliterate Javanese people chosen purposively. The data are analyzed based upon twofold:ogical meaning and moral values. Hence, the finding shows that Javanese language is worthmaintaining and developing constantly as it preserves invaluable treasure. It is the languagehat teaches not only what to say and how to say things but how to do things culturally wise

THE IMPLICATURE AND VIOLATION OF MAXIMS IN INDONESIAN ADVERTISEMENTS

We all know that advertising is a business in which language is used to persuade people to do things (e.g., buy some product) and / or believe things (believing that the value of the product is trustworthy or a good one). The phenomenon, however, is that we tend to doubtthe truth conditions of the advertisements. In other words, we do not take those ads seriously. We are not very affected emotionally yet we are just amused and regard them as entertaining fallacies (e.g. the “AXE” male perfume). Some reasons might verify this fact. However, this paper is just concerned with the language phenomenon existing in theadvertisement world. A common shared perspective on the advertisement language within Indonesian ads is, among others, bombastic, hyperbolic, and many times, irrational. Not the least, most of the ads have a similar tendency to “violate” the language as long as theproduct sells. Apparently, Indonesian ads are apt to employ indirect language(‘implicature’) in their emulating their own product and devaluing their competitor’s product (e.g. the then Yahama’s “Yang Lain Makin Ketinggalan”). Upon these intriguing facts, this paper attempts to highlight general features of Indonesian advertisements in termsof (1) the violation of Grice’s conversational maxims (rules and norms) and (2) implicature(extended meaning). Alternating a more ‘acceptable’ model of ads could be a by-product ofthis paper

ORAL TEST: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR ASSESSING STUDENTS' ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Teaching and testing are inseparable elements in pedagogical world irrespective of the course a teacher teaches. Phrased differently, there is no teaching without testing and vice versa. The results of testing should ideally motivate students in learning and give better perspectives to teachers on _how to devise a better teaching-learning. Accordingly, a teacher needs a sort of test that can sufficiently assess students' actual achievement in learning, in their given courses. One of which is so-called "Oral Test", the test that can give a feel of confidence that the test really measures what is purported to measure and provide relatively consistent results over the time (validity and reliability respectively), which, in the end can opaquely discriminate the proficiency levels amongst the students. Thus, this paper is a humble attempt to juxtapose leaching and testing and to run a critical diagnosis on the fruitfulness of oral test, the test type worth trying

ACENG’S UNFORGIVEN APOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (Permohonan Maaf Aceng yang Tidak Termaafkan: Analisis Wacana dengan Pendekatan Interdisipliner)

Artikel ini membahas tentang permohonan maaf Aceng (Bupati Garut) atas sikap dan tindakannya yang berkaitan dengan kasus pernikahan kilatnya yang  ditinjau dari Analisis Wacana/Critical Discourse Analysis” (CDA) dengan pendekatan  interdisipliner. Bidang-bidang ini mencakup Speech Acts, Analisis Narasi, Sosiolinguistik, Ideologi dan Hegemoni. Kesemuanya dipaparkan secara berurutan dengan tujuan menghasilkan perspektif yang menyeluruh tentang kasus Aceng yang fenomenal tersebut.  Dari hasil analisis ditemukan bahwa permintaan maaf Aceng terbukti tidak efektif alias kontra produktif. Dari segi sosiolinguistik,  permohonan maaf Aceng dianggap bertentangan dengan normanorma yang dipegang masyarakat Garut dikarenakan permintaan maaf tersebut tidak berasal dari hati nuraninya (tidak ihlas). Secara ideologis, pernikahan merupkan suatu pekerjaan yang mulia dan oleh karena itu harus dijaga dan dihormati (dan ini diabaikan oleh Aceng), sementara itu perceraian merupkan suatu tindakan yang sulit sekali bisa diterima dengan dalih apapun. Secara hegemonis, kita menyaksikan bahwa  yang berkuasa menguasai yang lemah. Denagn kata lain, kekuasaan Aceng sebagai Bupati telah disalahgunakan sehingga yang lemah menjadi tetap teraniaya

PENGARUH STRATEGI BERSAING TERHADAP TINGKAT VOLUME PENJUALAN SPAREPART PADA PT.MORITA TJOKRO GEARINDO DI JAKARTA

This study aims to see the effect of Competitive Strategy on the Sales Volume Level of Car Parts at PT. Morita Tjokro Gearindo in Jakarta. The population in this study were all consumers of PT. Morita Tjokro Gearindo with a total sample of 90 respondents, with the sampling technique using incidental sampling techniques. The respondent data technique used was a questionnaire (questionnaire) for each respondent who was given 18 statements. Then the data obtained were analyzed using the validity test, reliability test, linear regression analysis, t test, and analysis of the coefficient of determination (R2). Based on the research results of the coefficient of determination (r square) of 0.172, which means that the Competitive Strategy variable has a significant positive result on the Increase in Sales as evidenced by the t - test 3,868 > t - table 1,662, it means that H0 is rejected, and H1 is accepted. So it can be revealed that there is a significant and positive influence between competitive strategy on sales volume level

Interlanguage Errors In Senior High School Students’ Recount Text Writing

This research is mainly concerned with the analysis of interlanguage errors of senior high school students in writing recount text. The purposes of this research are: to analyze the dominant types of interlanguage errors made by students in their recount text writing under the surface strategy taxonomy, to analyze the reasons why the errors occur to the students in writing their recount text, and to analyze the way interlanguage processes influence students to make errors in writing their recount text. This research used descriptive-qualitative methodology. The samples of this research were 15 eleventh-grade students of MA PK Ma’arif 2 Kuwarasan. The data were collected through documentation, table checklist, and interview. The technique of data analysis was triangulation. The results of this research indicate 1) the four kinds of error based on surface strategy taxonomy (omission, addition, misordering, and misformation); the dominant error that appears in students’ writing recount text is misformation error, 2) the reasons why this error occured, and 3) the three interlanguage processes influencing the students in making errors covering overgeneralization, strategies of second language learning, and language transfer. Keywords: interlanguage, error analysis, recount text writin

ON DETERMINING THE D-STRUCTURE AND S-STRUCTURE OF WORLD LEADERS’ QUOTES

This article projects the syntactical aspects of world leaders' quotes via the X-bar theory. The reason why portraying the quotes utilizing the X-bar is due to the distinctiveness of the sentence patterns of the quotes themselves. By distinctiveness, world leaders tend to use simple sentence pattern in their creating their quotes and due to this simplicity the quote has endless impact and becomes easily chanted and widely known. For instance, the quote 'I have a dream' is very familiar to everyone's ears for partly it uses DP-VP-NP in the X-bar theory. This typicality is exposed through the primary research problems: what are the typical Dstructure configurations of the world leaders' quotes and how are the configurations transformed into their S-structures? Thus, this article focuses on discovering the underlying representations of the quotes of world leaders via the generative and transformational processes. The identified quotes are the internet-based data selected purposively. The article utilizes a descriptive and explanatory analysis. Keywords: D-structure, S-structure, world leaders’ quote

A Snapshot on Conversational Analysis

This article is exposed to scrutinize one of salient ideas in pragmatics. In this niche, we are centrally concerned with the organization of conversation. Key definitions will come up along the article, and the conversations analyzed here are borrowed from a readily available textbook of linguistics, in which two or more participants freely alternate in speaking, which generally happens outside specific institutional settings. This article tries to look into conversations, pragmatic phenomena. This also proposes a theo-retical phase for a conversational analysis and therefore helps students understand the procedures in analyzing co-present conversational participants. To a certain extent, presupposition may be seen in some basic ways organized around a conversational setting: the way in which information has to be presented if it is to be introduced to particular participants with specific share assumptions and knowl-edge about the world they are in. Key words: Pragmatics, Conversational Analysis, Language Usage

LANGUAGE DEVIATION: BRINGING LANGUAGE FROM SCIENCE TO FASHION

The article argues that the non-literal way of thinking is the potential force in creating language creativity in lives. Besides to be brought as a means of communication, language should be delivered in a more personal and mediating for every student’s individual character, voice, culture, and background. The direction of ELT is still to the conformity to situational communicative functions. Class is considered as a place for equipping students with situational-linguistic features so they are able to fulfill the communicative demands in some particular situations (science). Language deviation can be introduced to the class for the students to be able to cloth free and personal feeling, thoughts, and aspirations (fashion). The study applied library-study approach to answer the inquiries. It suggests that Language deviation requires the user to have prior knowledge in English and to have higher level of creativity. Students can learn to play with the language by applying foregrounding. Foregrounding involves stylistic distortion of a certain language at any level of language.  In classrooms, teachers can apply lexical distortion in the form of neologism and semantic distortion to challenge students to be able to think beyond literal meaning

COVID-19 PEDAGOGY IN ONLINE SCHOOL FIELD INTRODUCTION PROGRAM AT JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN PURWOKERTO

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the educational process at all levels globally. Educational activities that originally took place in face-to-face activities have turned into online or network activities. This online activity also has a great influence on the ability to educate and teach teachers and students practicing School Field Introduction programs. This study aims to determine (1) the Supervising Teacher's perception of the implementation of the Online School Field Introduction Program for English Education Undergraduate students and (2) the Supervising Teacher's perception of the student's pedagogical competence during School Field Introduction programs for English Education Undergraduate students. There are 8 Junior High Schools (SMP), 7 Senior High Schools (SMA), and 2 Vocational High Schools (SMK) which are the venues for the event. This study uses a descriptive method where the researcher provides a detailed description of the perception of the supervising teacher on the implementation of the online school field introduction program and the student's pedagogical ability in the activity. The results showed that the implementation of the Online School Field Introduction Program was going well and the students' pedagogical abilities still needed to be improved in teaching and learning activities. This is evidenced by positive perceptions of campus communication points (80%), coordination and debriefing activities (86%), drop-off and withdrawal activities (82%), the mentoring process (81%), and the reporting process (80%) of a total of 50 supervising teachers as respondents. Meanwhile, in terms of students' pedagogical abilities, neutral perceptions are found in the understanding students (74%), development of high school students' potentials (70%), and understanding the educational foundation for the benefit of learning (72%).  However, negative perceptions are centered on the designing and implementing learning (56%) as well as the designing and implementing evaluation (54%).  &nbsp