This study aims to find out the meaning of the animal characters in the Zootopia movie. Zootopia is an animated movie that uses animals as characters; thus, it is challenging to analyze those animals since they brought different signs from common ones. Therefore, this research focuses on three animal characters e.g., mouse, rabbit, and fox which are considered as important signs in Zootopia that thus need to be interpreted. In interpreting the signs, this study employs Saussure's semiotic theory which relates to a sign that contains a signifier and its use or interpretation as signified. This research used qualitative methods. It is found that the stereotypes of the three animal characters in the movie are different from the common acceptance. The movie tries to break stereotypes about mouse, rabbit and fox. Finally, it is hoped that this study may create more awareness to see anything not based on its prevailing labels.
The objectives of this research are to find the differences and the causes of the changed character and setting of places in Aladdin live-action movie and The Story of Ala-ed-Din and the Wonderful Lamp (TSAWL) short story by Antonie Galland. Also, it aims at analyzing the purposes of such changes. The study is qualitative-based research, and the analysis was done by examining the intrinsic parts of the works, such us characters and the setting of places. The extrinsic approaches were employed where New Historicism was needed as a theoretical framework. The results show that the reconstruction of the character Aladdin and changing the setting of place from China to a fictional place, a city of Agrabah obviously occurs. It can be concluded that the changed has been caused by the time the story is made and the author to make the movie live in the year of its creation.
Generasi milenial membutuhkan Bahasa Inggris karena batas-batas antar negara tidak terlihat lagi. Hal ini membuat kita harus mampu melakukan komunikasi dengan menggunakan Bahasa internasional, dan Bahasa Inggris salah satunya. Namun, dampak penerapan kurikulum 2013 tentang berkurangnya jumlah jam beberapa mata pelajaran termasuk mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris membuat usaha untuk mempelajari Bahasa tersebut berkurang. Karena itu perlu strategi untuk memudahkan mengusai bahasa tersebut. Fokus pada keterampilan-keterampilan bahasa seperti berbicara, menulis, mendengar dan membaca adalah salah satu caranya. Melihat kompleknya permasalahan penguasaan bahasa ini, siswa SMPN 7 Purwokerto membutuhkan bantuan untuk mengusai Bahasa Inggris. Bantuan ini sifatanya hanya sementara karena setelah itu diharapkan para siswa dapat mandiri melakukan usaha-usaha untuk meningkatkan keterampilan bahasanya. Hal-hal inilah yang menjadi fokus pengabdian masyarakat dosen-dosen FIB Unsoed. Kelas-kelas formal yang tidak dapat memberikan porsi peningkatan kompetensi menulis menjadi latar belakang utama dilakukan pengabdian ini. Sehingga tujuan pengabdian ini untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis melalui kegiatan literasi berbahasa Inggris. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode ceramah, diskusi dan workshop. Hasil pengabdian berupa 1 buku kumpulan cerita pendek dengan 18 cerita didalamnya menjadi bukti keberhasilan pengabdian ini.
The object of this study is All the Bright Places (2015), a young adult fiction novel which tells a story about two teenagers and their problems related to their mental illness. The interesting topic which became the main discussion in this study is how the female character of this novel, Violet Markey, using denial as her defence mechanism to cope grief on her sister and boyfriend’s death. To examine this topic, the researchers used descriptive qualitative method. This study found that in order to cope with Markey’s sister death, Markey used self-protective function of denial, while to cope with Finch’s death, her form of denial is by refusing to acknowledge his death.
In writing argumentative essay, the writer should mind complete parts of the essay and other linguistic elements. The two important linguistic elements are theme and rheme. Since theme and rheme are crucial in clause structure, thematic development is regarded important in the development of text. There are three patterns of thematic development proposed by Eggins, i.e., theme reiteration, zig-zag pattern, and multiple-theme pattern. This research states its objective as to analyze the thematic development occurred in students’ argumentative essay. The occurrence of thematic development is analyzed and elaborated into the finding and discussion. This research is a qualitative research. There are 13 essays written by students. The essays are chosen randomly to maintain the objectiveness of the analysis. Those essays consist of 323 clauses. They are analyzed based on the concept of thematic development proposed by Eggins. The analysis of thematic development of the clauses shows that theme reiteration emerges as the most preferable thematic development pattern. It can be seen that 217 clauses (67,2%) in students’ essay are in forms of theme reiteration. 84 clauses (26,0%) of the essay apply zig-zag pattern in thematic development. Multiple-theme pattern comes as the least preferred thematic development pattern. It only comes up in 22 clauses (6,8%) out of 323 clauses. It can be concluded that students understand the way to develop their essays by implementing combination of thematic development. It marks a successful phase of students’ writing skill. Nevertheless, students need writing practice intensively to make their writing skill grow better.
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