Surakarta English and Literature Journal https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju <p>Surakarta English and Literature Journal (SELJU) is a double blind peer-reviewed journal<strong> with p-ISSN (Printed): 2621-9077</strong><strong> and e-ISSN (Electronic): 2621-9085</strong> published by Language and Literature Faculty, University of Surakarta twice a year in <strong>August</strong> and<strong> February. </strong>The manuscript submitted has not been published anywhere both printed or electronic. The author shall refer to the author guidelines before submitting the manuscript. The manuscript submitted will then be evaluated and edited in terms of format, terms used, and other applied styles.</p> <p>The aim of SELJU is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers, and practitioners for publishing original research articles or review articles. The scope of the articles published in this journal deals with a broad range of topics such as Linguistics,Translation, Literature, and another section related to contemporary English language issues. This journal has also been registered in the Crossref system with Digital Object Identifier <strong>https://doi.org/</strong><strong>10.52429/selju</strong></p> en-US <p><strong>Licensing for Data Publication</strong></p> <div dir="ltr">SURAKARTA ENGLISH AND LITERATURE JOURNAL use a variety of waivers and licenses, that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:</div> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">Open Data Commons Attribution License, <a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/">http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/</a> (default)</div> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">Creative Commons CC-Zero Waiver, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</a></div> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence, <a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/">http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/</a></div> </li> </ul> <div dir="ltr">Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> wk.anindita@gmail.com (Widyashanti Kunthara Anindita) esusylowati@gmail.com (Eka Susylowati) Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:27:55 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Category Shifts and Impact of Translation in “The Secret of Unicorn” Movie Texts https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/55 <p>This study aims for (1) analyzing the kinds of category shifts found in the movie of The Adventure of Tintin “The Secret of Unicorn” into Indonesian Subtitle, (2) explaining the dominant category, and (3) describing the influences of those category shifts on transferring the messages of the source language. The data in this research were all of the sentences spoken by the actors in <em>The Adventure of Tintin “The Secret of Unicorn“ </em>movie, whose translations (subtitles) contain any type of category shifts&nbsp; This research was a descriptive qualitative research. The process of collecting data is by taking all data that are suitable to the criteria and supported the research. There are four types of category shifts occured in the subtitling text of the The Adventure of Tintin “The Secret of Unicorn” movie. They are structure shift, class shift, unit shift and intra-system shift.&nbsp; The structure shift has the highest frequency, that is 289 cases or about 50.7 %. The occurrence of category shift in this movie can make the translation’s result more natural, accurate, and communicative.</p> Seftiy Andriyaniy, Yunita Widiyantari Copyright (c) 2022 Seftiy Andriyaniy, Yunita Widiyantari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/55 Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Instagram Caption as Online Learning Media on The Subject of Extended Writing During Pandemic of Covid-19 https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/56 <p>This journal contains Instagram caption as online learning media on the extended writing subject in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic. Instagram is one of the popular culture products in the digital era. It is one of choices to be online learning media especially in improving writing. Most of people have Instagram account in the recent time. They are very active in using Instagram. Anything can be viral on this platform. This study presents the students’ perceptions of using social media Instagram. The data were analyzed by using qualitative standard of research. The result of this research is there are the advantages in using of Instagram caption as online learning media on the subject of extended during pandemic of Covid-19. The first advantage shows that participants can understand grammatical English like understanding on simple past tenses, subject- verb agreement and spelling correctly. The second, the participants can build their confidence in English writing by writing some Instagram captions. The third, the participants do writing as a daily habit. They are stimulated to write English captions in the lockdown time. The fourth, the participants got improving vocabularies.</p> Ade Christanty Yudha Bestari , Dinar Faiza, Meilina Haris Mayekti Copyright (c) 2022 Ade Christanty Yudha Bestari , Dinar Faiza, Meilina Haris Mayekti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/56 Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Lexical Cohesion Analysis on Adele’s Songs Lyrics in The Album 25 https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/57 <p>The objectives of this study are to identify the kinds of lexical cohesion used in Adele’s song lyrics in the album 25 and to find out the impact of the most type to hearers. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Data analysis was performed by categorizing data based on the theory from Halliday and Hasan consisting of reiteration (repetition, synonym, superordinate, general word) and collocation. The final step is to present data and make conclusions. The research findings show that repetition has 34 data with 47%, followed by synonym has 15 data with 21%, superordinate and collocation have 9 data with 12% and general word has 6 data with 8%. Repetition dominates the lexical type of cohesion and general word is the least appear. The impacts of the most type to hearers are repetition makes the meaning of the song deeper and hearers will be deeper in enrolling their emoticons in the song.</p> Novi Eka Purnama Sari, Widyashanti Kunthara Anindita Copyright (c) 2022 Novi Eka Purnama Sari, Widyashanti Kunthara Anindita https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/57 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pragmatic Failure of Students Conversation in Speaking Class of Xi Grade in Ma Al-Hikmah Tanon https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/58 <p>speaker and hearer, but the conversation can be continued. Accordingly, the pragmatic role is needed. Nevertheless, many cases used pragmatically might fail for many reasons, such as: cross-culture understanding, even misunderstanding of grammatical form. That case happens not only in real life conversation, but also in the classroom. This article is aimed to analyze the pragmatics failures of English students’ conversation in the speaking class. The discussion starts from the definition of Pragmatic and Speech act, and Pragmatic Failures in speaking class. It will be followed by the analysis of some conversations of the pragmatic failure in speaking class of EFL. This study shows that there are ten conversations of pragmatic failure. Based on those conversations, the researcher found the cases, firstly, there are kinds of speech act in English students’ conversation in the speaking class, namely: directive, assertive, declaration depended on Levinson's theory. Moreover, secondly, pragmatic failure happens in English students’ conversation in speaking class is pragmalinguistics failure.</p> Indah Musfirotul Fitria, Wuri Rahmawati Copyright (c) 2022 Indah Musfirotul Fitria, Wuri Rahmawati https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/58 Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Students’ Perception of Politeness in Communicating with Teachers Through Instant Messaging Application:A Narrative Inquiry https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/59 <p>This paper aims to determine students' perceptions about etiquette and politeness that must be considered by students when communicating with teachers in an instant messaging application. This study is a qualitative study with a narrative inquiry. The object of research was 8<sup>th</sup> grade students of Al-Abidin Islamic Middle School Surakarta.The data were collected by interviewing five students from the 8<sup>th</sup> grade of Al-Abidin Islamic Middle School Surakarta.The results showed that most students already understood the concept of politeness, although it was still simple. Students also understood the reasons why they have to be polite in sending messages to the teachers, although the reasons were more due to age differences.In assessing the contents and the procedures how the way they send massage, the students have already known which one polite or not.</p> Evi Risky Mularsih, Ainurvely G Maudy Copyright (c) 2022 Evi Risky Mularsih, Ainurvely G Maudy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/59 Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000