Sub Judul

"Because no human is perfect... place to learn and enjoy words, phrases and sentences"

Selasa, 17 April 2012

DISCOURSE ASSIGNMENT 2

Here are the data of cohesion found on DA assignment :

1. Supported by complete and good facilities make this school rather expensive because it also promises the good management on its education.

2. Indonesia has pesantren as education system (Islamic boarding house models). It is classified into two models

3. First Traditional, it does not collect the payment from the students and students can stay and study freely.

4. First Traditional, it does not collect the payment from the students and students can stay and study freely. They study about Islamic science for the sake of individual and public.

5. Modern pesantren collects the payment of the students because it gives more ability and knowledge for students

DISCOURSE ASSIGNMENT 3

(1)
a. The objective of A’s utterance could be that A wants to confirm whether or not suspect’s name is John Smith. However B’s utterance doesn’t match with adjency pairs of A’s one. B counters the utterance with irritated expression   
b. Place: on the court, Scene: formal, Participants: A (john Smith; suspect) and B (The judge), Ends: the objectives are explained above, Act sequences: Suspect came to the court, Judge open the court, Judge ask suspect, Keys: Serious, Instrumentalities: Spoken standard language, Norms: Suspect must give respect to the court, Genres: Conversation
(2)
Language and Marriage, both of them involves the rules which is regulate individual behavior through a system of social and it’s also can be seen as mediators or means for individuals to form or get connected to society.
(5)
The objective of A’s utterance actually wasn’t intended to give any information however A’s utterance more on performing good manners or politeness on. The B’s utterance is also neither intended to answer nor asking back to gain the information, but of course it was to give respond to the A’s utterance as one of good manners act too.
The effect of A’s utterance was A and B can get connected although in a short conversation.
Phatic Communion: The conversation of A and B is one kind of good manners conversation which is intended to perform a communion between the passengers. 

Rabu, 14 Maret 2012

A DISCOURSE STUDY; DISCOURSE ASSIGNMENT

Name : Amirul Husna
Nim : A320090156
Class : D


Discourse Study
     A discourse study is a process of comprehending the situation or context within the text. It is a study about finding the meaning, intention or purpose of the communicative act which is based on situation as the reference. One of it aspect is analyzing the coherent so that the text can be accepted. On the text, the form of the sentence, the structure of the text and grammar is correct it does not guarantee that the meaning of text is acceptable. Somehow we need to know the elements of discourse within the text in order to get the true meaning of it.
     There are so many definition of discourse such as:
     
“A continuous stretch of (especially spoken) language larger than sentence, often consisting a coherent unit, such as a sermon, argument joke or narrative.”(Crystal, 1992:25)

“Interpretation of communicative event in context.”(Nunan, 1993:6-7)

     So, discourse is an interpretation of language on the communicative event which is provided in the form of language stretch (larger than sentence) and often contains a coherent unit.
     A discourse study helps to find out whether the text is make sense or not, by finding the true meaning from the context, it can relates the elements of the text into one coherence and acceptable.