“A Kaleidoscope of Color or the Agony of Race? Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father”

Excerpt from Developing Transnational American Studies, edited by Nadja Gernalzick and Heike C. Spickerman

CULTURAL TRANSLATION OF TRADITIONAL FOOD FROM WEST-JAVA: A MEDIA TO PROMOTE THE TRADITIONAL CUISINE TO THE WORLD

Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world with a total of 17,054 islands. Each island has different customs, values and habits. As one of the elements of culture,Indonesian culinary is also a pride cultural element. Traditional Indonesian food is one ofthe attractions of foreign tourists and local tourists. In Indonesia there are many kinds oftraditional food. From 17,054 islands that make up the Indonesian archipelago, there is theisland of Java which is known for its unique history and its beauty. It is named WestJava.West Java Province, also known as the land of Sunda, has different kind of dishescomparing to other Indonesian cuisine. Sundanese people by utilizing the existing ingredients in the surrounding likes to create a unique food in terms of names and flavors.Name it colenak, combro, batagor, cireng, cimol, gehu, and so on. In translation, there isprocedure known as cultural equivalent. Cultural equivalent is an approximate translationwhere a source language of cultural word is translated by a target language cultural word(Newmark, 1988:82). The translation from kinds of food from West Java is a way topromote the traditional food to international world. The research is conducted usingdescriptive- qualitative method. In this study, the object of the research data is the typicalfood of West Java which is located in big cities in West Java, such as in Sumedang andGarut. The data are obtained by conducting survey method and questionnaire interview. The researcher goes to the area to capture the culinary trademarks in some areas in WestJava. The results of this research will give big effect to tourism development in West Java cuisine

Delegation, Knowledge Integration, and Cooperation: How to Solve Problems of Coordination in Structural Fund Programs. Findings From Comparative Case Studies in the South of Italy

European cohesion policies are increasingly relying on grassroots networks tapping into tacit knowledge and participatory decision-making processes. Regional governments delegate their decision making power to local institutions with the assumption that local agents possess both contextual knowledge and political legitimacy to integrate different policy measures in a cooperative fashion. Delegation of decision making power is therefore presumed to minimize the unintended or conflicting outcomes emerging, for instance, when environmental protection and infrastructure building are not designed consistently to local contextual needs nor are these pursued through a cooperative effort of local networks of actors. Different agents, including resource users and government agencies try to work together to resolve shared dilemmas of coordination, as an increasingly common alternative to centralized institutions. Coordination consists of managing interdependencies among multiple individuals or organizations involved in the overall program or project management. Several studies classify different types of coordination mechanisms, including standards, hierarchy, targets or plans, slack resources, vertical information systems, direct contact, liaison roles, task forces, and integrating roles. Other ways of classifying coordination include formal impersonal, formal interpersonal, and informal interpersonal; non-coordination, standards, schedules and plans, mutual adjustment, and teams; task-task, task-resource, and resource-resource coordination; vertical and horizontal coordination; coordination by programming and by feedback; and coordination by standards, plans, and mutual adjustment. Building upon a current field research in four regions of the South of Italy, this paper examines how coordination occurs across local development programs, which are embedded within multilevel governance structures and relations. The paper presents a number of cases of local collaborations in which large numbers of local actors representing a wide range of contending groups have, with the help of mediating institutions, worked out agreements for integrating development programs. In some circumstances, specific coordination mechanisms encouraged consensus building offering all relevant groups the knowledge and skills needed to participate in these negotiations. In other circumstances, though, delegation of decision making power opened the door for opportunistic participation, lacking vision and trust for mutual cooperation.

THE ART OF RHETORIC USING STYLISTIC DEVICES IN WORLD UNIVERSITIES DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP: A Study of Pragmatics

Debating is recognized as a way of doing persuasion in speech that deals with four points of debate pillars, for instance: assertion, reasoning, evidence, and link back. There are two formats on parliamentary debating competitions; Asian and British. The format of worlds is British Parliamentary debate, which consists of eight debaters divided into four teams, two on the pro-position and other two on the opposition, and allows debaters 15 minutes of preparation and doing the case building before engaging in the round (Harvey-Smith, 2011; Johnson, 2009; Lising, 2010). Over past few years, every country’s debater champions have been gathered and involved in a high level of debate atmosphere to compete each other as their country’s representatives to have worlds’ champion title. In conjunction to the glance of forewords, researcher will analyze annual world most prestigious debating championship, WUDC 2016, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. The study will use descriptive qualitative method. The source of this research is taken from video streaming on Youtube that shows ESL grand final round between University of Indonesia team A (Indonesia) as Prime Minister (PM) and RWTH Aachen team A (Germany) as leader of opposition (LO). This approach is intended to answer: (1) What stylistic devices appear in World Universities Debating Championship 2016? (2) What kinds of illocutionary act appear and how its perlocutionary impacts the opponent side’s respond that results in rebuttal? This analysis is based on Aristotle (1991) and Searle (1979) which result is expected to reveal the technique of how debaters unconsciously deliver their persuasive speech in front of adjudicator core

KRITIK SOSIAL YANG TERDAPAT PADA LIRIK LAGU ALBUM GULALI KARYA IKSAN SKUTER

            Penelitian ini berjudul “Kritik Sosial Yang Terdapat Pada Lirik Lagu Album Gulali Karya Iksan Skuter”. Adapun yang menjadi latar belakang dalam penelitian ini yaitu bahan ajar mengenai puisi yang terdapat di dalam buku paket kurang bervariatif. Rumusan masalah penelitian ini adalah bagaimana kritik sosial yang terdapat pada lirik lagu album Gulali karya Iksan Skuter. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kritik sosial yang terdapat pada lirik lagu album Gulali karya Iksan Skuter. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah teknik studi pustaka, teknik analisis, dan teknik dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian terhadap kritik sosial yang terdapat pada lirik lagu album Gulali karya Iksan Skuter dapat disimpulkan sebagai berikut. (1) Kritik soaial masalah kemiskinan (2) Kritik sosial masalah kejahatan (3) Kritik sosial masalah generasi muda (4) Kritik sosial masalah lingkungan hidup (5) Kritik sosial masalah birokrasi. Kata Kunci: lirik lagu,kritik sosial

APPLICATION OF PERFORMATIVE CONCEPT ON ENGLISH LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A STUDY OF PRAGMATICS

The legal documents contain statements binding between several parties involved in the issues listed in the document. Prenuptial agreement, power of attorney to a case, insurance payments, inheritance issues are commonly discussed in terms of a legal document. In linguistics, there is a terminology known by performative utterances. Performative concept is one example of application of language use through legal documents as a media. The concept is mentioned by Austin (1962:6). The naming comes from the verb 'perform' or refers to the noun 'action', it is said that the word refers to a speech that shows the performance or action. Performative utterance , or sometimes just simply mentioned ‘performative’ has characters : first person singular subject and followed performative verbs in active present form (1962:5).Performative cannot be regarded as right or wrong statements, but it refers to appropriate or inappropriate, legitimate or illegitimate contents of statements. Performative utterances can be explicit and implicit. Implicit performative is performative utterances with performative verbs but they are not explicitly stated. On implicit performative, conversational context greatly affects assuming the performative verb that appears. This research will try to explain the form of performative and pragmatic mechanism on the legal documents. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive and this research is expected to contribute in application of linguistics, especially pragmatics

ADJUSTMENT OF PRICING: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN MANUFACTURING

In India, manufacturing plays a significant role in economic development, growth and as a source of employment. This paper analyses the pricing behaviour in Indian manufacturing sector considering both domestic and external variables. Price adjustment models are developed based on Industrial Organization literature and are examined with 28 manufacturing industries at the 3-digit level over the period from 1963 to 2001. Domestic structural factors are found to be important in determining speed of price adjustment.Speed of price adjustment; Competitiveness; Indian manufacturing