Numerous scam emails received by journal editors with various rhetorical techniques are considerable linguistic phenomena to examine. Certain rhetorical techniques provide information about the email senders' identity and ideology. Thus, this study employs the transitivity system of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistic and Chiluwa's discourse strategies to discover how scammers construe reality based on their identities and ideologies. The findings show that the highest number of data provide powerful relational discourses, whether the discourse is explicitly stated or implicitly inferred through the narrativity of the emails. Based on those findings, the represented identity of the scammers is understood to be ambiguous: whether the scammers have power or have learned to express power in their writing. The ambiguity, however, is proven ironic by the findings on the misapplication of Standard English writing, which also provides evidence that the scammers are most unlikely highly educated. Even though this study does not provide evidence of the real identity of the scammers, this study has provided confidence for the recipients to easily acknowledge that the scammers are the ones who have less power than the recipients do.
This article discusses the media's perspective related to incest rape case in Jambi written by the editorial board and posted in The Jakarta Post's opinion column. The aim of this paper is finding out the media's evaluation toward the case using an appraisal system. The analysis is done by classifying which utterance in the data that consists of several arguments and opinions. Later on, the researchers highlight and discuss expressions which represent the media's evaluation of the government, the family member of the victim, and the whole society and state relating to the case. The result of the analysis presents that the media put their negative evaluation toward the hearing decision and sentence addressed to the victim, especially negative evaluation of judgment and appreciation. Those negative evaluations are deemed as a form of defense from media instead of a neutral commentary.
Education is an importance aspect in our life. It does not stop even when pandemic hits worldwide. An innovation of online learning is implemented to maintain the educational practice. "School from home", the term we use to describe the online teaching-learning process, has created such controversy because of parent's protest towards the practice. This study aims to describe the portrayal of online learning system by analysing WhatsApp chats between teacher and parent that become viral on the digital space. The study adopts qualitative research method and Theme and Rheme frameworks to get the result of analysis. The analysis reveals that the successful current online learning system is hard to achieve because the education's culture has shown the exclusivity of parents in the given discourse. This exclusivity has indirectly created unconducive environment for the students in gaining knowledge.
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