25 articles in this issue
Fatimah Sari Siregar, Yayuk Hayulina Manurung, Dharmawati, Ramlan, Karisma
This research is a study of humor in daily conversation in Karo language. This study aimed to describe the form of humor found in daily conversations in Karo language. This research used descriptive-qualitative to describe the humor that dominates daily c... see more
Fithriyah Inda Nur Abida, Rahayu Kuswardani, Oikurema Purwati, Diana Budi Darma, Widyastuti
This research aim is to investigate the impact of humor in the speaking class and its’ effectiveness to improve students ‘speaking skill. A quantitative research design was used in this study. This investigation took place between March 5th and June 2nd, ... see more
Nadya Inda Syartanti
This study aims to reveal the implicit meaning contained in memes related to Covid-19 through Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis approach. This meme is taken from social media and several websites that contain a collection of memes that are focused on... see more
Oktavianus
Humor can be regarded as one of the unique ways of communicating ideas and delivering messages. It can be easily found in the daily use of language in various contexts and situations. This short writing is an attempt to analyze humor to find the systems o... see more
Sisila Fitriany Damanik, Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Siregar
The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how structural characteristics of conversational humour are related to the functions served by hilarious utterances and acts. Linguistically speaking, examining humour can provide us with a wealth of informat... see more
Aprili Yanti
This research describes the humor strategy that is realized by the preachers in conveying the syiar of Islam to the congregation. The intelligence of the preachers in using lexical variations in the elements of their da'wah aims to enliven a warm atmosphe... see more
Eva Rabita, Himma Dewiyana, Ishak, Nur’aini
The purpose of this article is to determine the effect of using humor as a teaching and learning approach in the Literacy skills program on the number of visitors to the University of North Sumatra's Library. The descriptive quantitative approach was util... see more
Muhammad Yusuf, Rahmawati, Akmal, Ernita Daulay, Azhar Aziz Lubis
The pandemic of Covid-19 affects a variety of facets, including the way education is delivered, which has shifted to an online format via the use of virtual classrooms supplied by several platforms. The purpose of this study is to ascertain lecturers' att... see more
Alemina Br.Perangin-angin
In Teun A. Discourse Analysis A. Van Dijk tries to elaborate an analysis of the cognition of gender representation of political party speech texts. Speech texts are not only words that are only linguistics, but are social in nature. Van Dijk became one of... see more
Aprili Yanti, Khairina Nst, Octavianus, Mulyadi
Da'wah is one of the most appropriate means of broadcasting religion to its adherents both monologically and in dialogue. Minangkabau cultural leader is one who is considered as a preacher for the Minangkabau community because of his role as ‘mamak’ provi... see more
Azizah Husda, Elitaria Bestri Agustina Siregar, Thyrhaya Zein
Every citizen has a right to express his opinion even in social media. However, some people use social media to express negative meaning, including hate speech. Hate speech may cause hatred and attack both individual and community honor. The expression of... see more
Dedi Zulkarnain Pulungan
Public speaking habits are a step in developing themselves to get information. Good speech is aimed at one's attitude in language. Prevention hate speech in the world of special social for community in the South Tapanuli is carried out in a makkobar manne... see more
Elza Leyli Lisnora Saragih, Tiarma Intan Marpaung
This study deals with the usage, kinds and meaning of antonomasia in hate speech of netizen to political figures in social media. And the purpose of the study is to describe the using, kinds and meaning of antonomasia in the hate speech. The data is taken... see more
Maria Ulfa, Mulyadi
This research deals with Teenager Attitude toward Hate Speech in Aceh Society. This research aims to describe teenager attitude toward the phenomenon of Hate speech in society and How their motivation to share the hoax information. This research instrumen... see more
Mohd. Fauzi, Denni Iskandar, Syarifuddin, M. Surip
This paper aims to reveal hate speech in songs using the hermeneutic approach. The method used is descriptive-qualitative and the source of data are six Indonesian songs containing hate speech. The data are collected by using interview (cakap) method and ... see more
Rini Afrilesa. J
YouTube is a video sharing website that is growing rapidly among the public. Children to adults love to watch YouTube. They can freely search for any videos they want. Comment pages are also available for those who want to provide responses to the video. ... see more
Sri Ninta Tarigan, Mulyadi
The purpose of this research was to observe hate speech in Ahmad Dhani Social Media and identify the type of hate speech such as race and religion. This research used lexical semantic (verbal communication includes sounds, words, language, speech) in visu... see more
Srisofian Sianturi, Ernawati Tampubolon
This study discusses the types of hate speech in ‘Ikan Asin’ dialog. The data were collected from the dialog in YouTube ‘Video Galih Menghina A. Fairus Bau Ikan Asin’ that published by ‘Viralin Aja’ YouTube Channel on July, 2019. The object of this study ... see more
Surya Kelana Putra, Sisila Fitriany Damanik
Indonesia is one of the largest countries that embraces a democratic system after the United States and India. As a democratic country, of course, Indonesia gives freedom of opinion in public in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number ... see more
Anne Pomerantz
Humor may make people laugh, but linguistically it is no laughing matter. This paper proposed to the educators, teacher preparation programs, and educational researchers who need to take humor and the related phenomenon of play more seriously in their app... see more
Toshiyuki SADANOBU
For the last 10 years, the author has collected funny talks roughly two to three minutes in length, made by various Japanese speakers. One point that has been made clear by these talks is the fact that people’s funny talks show cultural and linguistic dif... see more
Tariq Khan
The scientific examination of humour is a recent development in Applied Linguistics and other diverse but cooperating disciplines. Though humour research took off only recently, there has been substantial progress in it. Among the variegated genres of hum... see more
I Dewa Putu Wijana
This paper intends to describe the humorous discourses that emerge during the corona virus diseases pandemic. Even though I am very sure that there are still very limited humorous phenomena used to be the material of joke during the pandemic, their existe... see more
Susi Herti Afriani
This paper discusses teasing, jokes and directives in ten written Uncle Juhai stories (Cerito Mang Juhai) in Palembang Malay in Indonesia. Palembang Malay is one of the local languages in Indonesia, hereafter referred to as Palembangnese. Uncle Juhai stor... see more
M. Rouzhi Aristha Nasution, Alemina Br. Perangin-Angin, Mazlah Aini Siregar, Siti Khairani Ritonga
This study analyzes Queen Elizabeth's Rhetoric. The purpose of this research is to ascertain the types of rhetoric employed in Queen Elizabeth's Speech, specifically to ascertain the most prevalent type of rhetoric employed. The data for this study were a... see more