Lingua Sphere

According to Teun Van Dijk. There are three elements of critical discourse analysis as follows: macrostructure, superstructure and micros...

Another theory of discourse has been brought by Sara Mills. She focused on discourse about feminism : how women appeared in a text, either...

There are three paradigms of discourse analysis; Positivist Discourse Analysis, Interpretive discourse Analysis, and Critical Discourse ...

In a bit long holiday like this time, some of you, guys, may forget about discourse analysis. Now, i wanna help you to keep you schemata ab...

Language is a power used to make one’s statement stronger. Someone uses language to influence people. Moreover, it can hide the fact to av...

Hymes' SPEAKING in Ethnography Hymes, a sociolinguist, anthropologist, a folklorist of languages of the Pacific Northwest, and the f...

Here are some kinds of person deixis. 1. First Person Deixis First person deixis is the grammaticalization of the speaker’s reference to...

Person, Place and Time in Deixis Theory - According to Karl Buhler (in Renkema, 1993: 77), There are three types of deixis, namely person ...

When language is spoken, it occurs in a specific location, at a specific time, is produced by a specific person and is (usually) addressed ...

Sometimes in our daily lives, we can find acts that do not satisfy the “face wants” of the speaker and the hearer. The acts that threaten e...

Brown and Levinson (1987) define politeness as behaving a way that attempts to take into account the feeling of people being addressed. In ...

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in communication. The pragmatic of language is concerned with audience-directed intention-h...

Grundy (2000: 121) divides presupposition into pragmatic presupposition and semantic presupposition. Pragmatic presupposition is cancelable...

When someone speaks to us, we typically make all sorts of assumptions about the background to their utterance which we presume to be mutual...

The independence has been defined by Scollon & Scollon in Fatkhurozi (2007: 19) as an aspect which emphasizes the individuality of the p...

Scollon & Scollon (1995: 36 as cited in Fatkhurozi, 2007: 16) said that face is a paradoxical concept. In one side we need to be involv...

In conversation, there are ways to go about getting the things we want. However, in different social situation we are obliged to adjust our...

Flouting a maxim is a particular salient way of getting an addressee to draw an inference and hence recover an implicature (Grundy, 2000:...

Drinking a coffee has been an inseparable lifestyle for the people in this era. it recognizes a lot of various taste in coffee. Those are f...

The dialogue Fuad lalu berdehem sambil melihat ke arah laki-laki berbaju resmi ala kantor yang berdiri tak jauh dari kerumunan mereka. Si...