Papers by ADE WINDIANA ARGINA

International Journal of English and Literature, 2018
Considering the language phenomenon and its power in political discourse, this article sought to ... more Considering the language phenomenon and its power in political discourse, this article sought to discover the use of presupposition triggers and its use to construct campaign rhetoric of the first campaign speech delivered by Trump and Hillary (2015) for the US presidential election 2016. Through descriptive qualitative, this study using theory of presupposition triggers proposed by Levinson (1983) and Yule (2010) discovered non-significant difference of frequency of presupposition use by Trump and Hillary; however, significant gap was found in several types of presupposition triggers (i.e. Factive, Pronoun, Temporal Clause, Comparison and Contrast, and Question). Moreover, Implicative and Non-factive were only found in Hillary's speech, not in Trump's speech. This study also employed Critical Discourse Analysis to discover the message of utterances containing presupposition triggers and categorized them based on the components of rhetoric campaign proposed by Medhrust (2005). This analysis found that both campaign speeches delivered by Trump and Hillary met all components (i.e. Agenda-setting, Framing, Character Construction, and Emotional Resonance) by the use of presupposition.

One of the most prestigious programmes employed to measure educational achievement worldwide is P... more One of the most prestigious programmes employed to measure educational achievement worldwide is Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) offered by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The core objective of PISA is to provide cross-nationally comparable evidence of student performance on the skills that are judged to be important for adult life (Breakspear, 2014). PISA result for Indonesia, as one of 72 countries joining PISA in 2015, pictured the stagnancy and failure of education performance system in this developing country. Attractively, it dragged the writers to conduct this study in purposing to identify the factors probably influencing the low position of Indonesia in PISA result during its participation. Based on the analysis, teachers’ quality, education system, education fund as well as educational decentralization are the most probable major factors influencing Indonesia PISA. To make this study more worthwhile, the writers also tried...

One of the most prestigious programmes employed to measure educational achievement worldwide is P... more One of the most prestigious programmes employed to measure educational achievement worldwide is Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) offered by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The core objective of PISA is to provide cross-nationally comparable evidence of student performance on the skills that are judged to be important for adult life (Breakspear, 2014). PISA result for Indonesia, as one of 72 countries joining PISA in 2015, pictured the stagnancy and failure of education performance system in this developing country. Attractively, it dragged the writers to conduct this study in purposing to identify the factors probably influencing the low position of Indonesia in PISA result during its participation. Based on the analysis, teachers’ quality, education system, education fund as well as educational decentralization are the most probable major factors influencing Indonesia PISA. To make this study more worthwhile, the writers also tried...

Considering the language phenomenon and its power in political discourse, this article sought to ... more Considering the language phenomenon and its power in political discourse, this article sought to discover the use of presupposition triggers and its use to construct campaign rhetoric of the first campaign speech delivered by Trump and Hillary (2015) for the US presidential election 2016. Through descriptive qualitative, this study using theory of presupposition triggers proposed by Levinson (1983) and Yule (2010) discovered non-significant difference of frequency of presupposition use by Trump and Hillary; however, significant gap was found in several types of presupposi-tion triggers (i.e. Factive, Pronoun, Temporal Clause, Comparison and Contrast, and Question). Moreover, Implicative and Non-factive were only found in Hillary's speech, not in Trump's speech. This study also employed Critical Discourse Analysis to discover the message of utterances containing presupposition triggers and categorized them based on the components of rhetoric campaign proposed by Medhrust (200...
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