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Metaphorical Conceptual of Sadness Emotion in Bruno Mars’ Song

Corenia Sagista — 2023-12-31

This research is about the sadness metaphor that found in Bruno Mars’ song. Bruno Mars is one of the famous singer from USA. As a singer also song writer Bruno Mars not only depending on one theme of the songs but variety. From all his songs, the most popular is some sad songs theme. According (Lakoff,G & Johnson,M, 2003 ), conceptual metaphor is an understanding and expressing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Based on the theory of (Barcelona, 1986 )Metaphors of sadness were analyzed from a cognitive linguistic perspective. He identified there are 14 sources domains in sadness metaphor. The writer would like to observes sadness metaphor used the lyrics of the songs. Bruno Mars’ songs were chosen as the data sources because there are many of his songs have lyrics that contains sad feeling. This research used qualitative research approach. As a result, the researcher found there are some fragments of the lyrics in Bruno Mars’ songs which categorized into 5 types of source domains in sadness metaphor, which are: SAD IS DOWN, SAD IS DARK, SADNESS IS A NATURAL FORCE, SADNESS IS A BURDEN and SADNESS IS INSANITY. The most dominant sources domains of sadness metaphor that is found in Bruno Mars’ song is sadness is a burden.

Preposition’s Meaning of Construction -s on The Novel “The Da Vinci Code”

Elita Sanjaya — 2023-12-31

The goal of the study is to prove that prepositions can parse the meanings of possessive construction -s. Besides, it is also to describe kinds of prepositions occurring in the possessive construction -s and to explain the meanings of possessive construction -s. Theories employed to support in analyzing data are Murphy (1998) talking about prepositions; Lyons (1995), Huddleston & Pullum (2002), Carter & McCarthy (2010) discussing about possessive construction -s. The research questions discussed in this study are what kinds of prepositions can the possessive construction -‘s substitute and what meanings can the possessive constructions emerge. Some people considered that the possessive construction -‘s as the meaning of possession of someone. Based on the findings found by the writer, the meaning of possessive construction -s is not only to refer to the possessive meanings, but also to meanings of preposition, i.e. at, in, on, to, of, from, by, and about. Besides, each preposition has different meanings depending on contexts of the sentences.

Deixis Analysis on Comments of Taylor Swift’s YouTube Channel

Monica Devi Setiawan — 2023-12-31

This research entitled Deixis Analysis on Comments of Taylor Swift’s YouTube Channel. The purposes of the research are to find out the types of deixis and interpret the meaning of utterances based on deixis that found on comments in “Back to December” of Taylor Swift’s YouTube channel. The method of this research used descriptive qualitative research. The writer used Levinson’s theory (1983). In this research, the writer analyzed 32 comments on Taylor Swift’s YouTube channel. There are 11 cases of person deixis, place deixis 2 cases, time deixis 1 case, discourse deixis 10 cases, and last but not least, social deixis 8 cases. The writer concludes that the comments are mostly dominated with person deixis which are important in pragmatics study.

A Covid-19 Social Assistance Corruption Case On Jakarta Globe News Articles: A Framing Analysis

Ogy Adidaya Qadar — 2023-12-31

Political news is always related to framing which is used to find out the perspective or point of view used by journalists or mass media when selecting issues and writing news. The way journalists or media writes the news and shows their point of view will determine whether or not the media favors certain groups. This study will examine how the Jakarta Globe frames the news regarding the corruption case of the Covid-19 social assistance fund carried out by the former of Social Minister, Juliari Peter Batubara. The data used in this study are three news published by Jakarta Globe on December 6, 2020 which the same day with the former of Social Minister Juliari Peter Batubara surrendered himself to the KPK. The method used in this study is a qualitative approach using framing analysis from Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M Kosicki. Framing analysis from Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki focuses on four structures, namely syntax, script, thematic, and rhetorical. The conclusion is the Jakarta Globe is not neutral in the writing of corruption cases carried out by the former of Social Minister Juliari Peter Batubara in a very subtle way.

Grief Caused by War in “Mieko and the Fifth Treasure” by Eleanor Coerr

Tan Theresia Muharto Haryono — 2023-12-31

War is a part of human history that is full of grief memories. Literature is a written forum for humanity to remember past events such as war which brought many different reactions and results in life. One of the literary works that portrays the concepts of war, grief, and trauma is “Mieko and the Fifth Treasure” written by Eleanor Coerr. This book was the primary data source of this journal. The purpose of this research was to find the changes due to World War II on the main character “Mieko” and the ways of dealing with her changes, by applying the theory of grief proposed by Kübler-Ross and David Kessler. The main results showed that before the war happened, Mieko was a normal girl who had a wonderful life and loved to make calligraphy art. However, after the war happened, Mieko experienced feelings of fear, confusion, abandonment, insecurity, and many other grief reactions, as a result of her injured hand, her movement to the village, and the bullying she got from some of her classmates. However, Mieko’s friendship with Yoshi slowly turned her negative thoughts into positive ones and made her grow more mature than his past personality. This article wrapped up the essence of healing from visible and invisible wounds that can be done through caring and love for others who are experiencing deep problems in life.