Born in English speaking country for the children whose parents are not the English native can give excellent opportunity to be able to learn English as the first language. Yet, this phenomenon interestingly will bring a problem when they no longer live in English speaking countries which use English as the first language. Children will experience the losing ability on their English as their first language when they start to learn their second language. This study aims to reveal the English skills ability which experienced the attrition, the reasons behind the English language attrition, and the parents’ role to maintain their children’s English language. This is a qualitative research by using interview and observation techniques. There are three informants named NH (7 years), KH (4 years), and RM (9 years). The result shows that language attrition in the English language can be divided into three types such as active skills attrition in writing and speaking, lexical attrition in vocabularies, and grammar attrition. All these English language attrition are influenced by the second language dominant and the second language higher level of mastery. Moreover, the parents help their children to maintain their English ability by speaking full English and giving an English lesson through formal education and private course. All the evidence here may be the gentle warning for the effect of losing ability in English as the first language in view of moving to a non-English speaking country.
Speech is a communication tool that occurs between speaker and audience. When delivering speech, a speaker tries to reach the audience through his words. Most of the time, a speaker delivers his speech to gain attention from the audience and persuade them to agree with what the speaker believes. This is the case with Benjamin Netanyahu who is an Israeli Politician and currently the Prime Minister of said country. He delivered his speech at the opening of new United States embassy in Jerusalem, which sparked the outrage of people around the world, as we know that Jerusalem belongs to Palestine but this action showed that the Israel government has already claimed Jerusalem as its capital. From the linguistics’ point of view, his speech is an interesting matter to be analyzed. Hence, this study aimed to analyze the types of presupposition used by Benjamin Netanyahu in his opening speech in Jerusalem and the purpose of using them. The fully transcribed speech is gained by downloading it from the internet. The result found that there are two kinds of presupposition used and each with pragmatic function that are emphasis, persuasive and euphemism. These presuppositions had purpose to express speaker’s attitude in a polite way and giving information to the audience.
This article presents an analysis of Billie Eilish’s dark lyrics written on the girl’s notes who committed homicide, yet both lyrics and the girl’s original handwriting becomes controversial as a purpose to give a sign to other people. It applies Linguistics Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program and grammatical function with a qualitative approach to determine the dark lyrics built on the notes and how the message behind the lyrics is revealed. The results show that in the notes: 1) the dark lyrics were used to reveal the girl is experienced angry and madness while the dominant of Unmarked Topical Theme is aims to attract the reader as the writer focus on Billie Eilish’s dark lyrics as the main point; 2) declarative mood functioned to shorten the gap between herself and Billie Eilish’s dark lyrics so tindicate the participant at the beginning of the clause is information bearer as well as she tried to tell the reader about the experienced occurred by the moment. Grammatically, the controversial side of the notes is mostly featured by several clauses containing dark elements shown negative experience as she subjected to sexual abuse. As a matter of fact, this study discovered a strong sign of homicide’s tendency in statement of inclination which reflected personal desire.
Conversation is a spoken exchange of feelings, thoughts or ideas between two or more people. In order to get a smooth conversation, the participant should not violated each other’s turn. Thus, The present study explained about turn-taking mechanism of conversation analysis in Ever After movie. The aim of this study is to find out what kind of turn taking mechanism occured in Ever After movie, the function of each mechanism and how the characters construct the conversation. this study required qualitative method and the data are collected using documentation. The instrument used are human instrument which means the researcher uses herself to interpret the data. The findings of this study indicate that the characters mostly used yielding the floor mechanism and backchannel signals to maintain the conversation which mean of the conversation runs smothly. Thus, it is indicate that the characters did not violate their turn. Keywords: turn-taking mechanism, ever after, conversation analysis, interruption
English learning process of EFL learners is often evaluated through their performance in using the language, especially their speaking performance. This research concern about the use of discourse markers in informal occasion which may be a great help to improve speaking fluency of EFL. This research revealed the types and functions of discourse markers used in vlog video by BNay Channel. To conduct this research, the researcher relied on Biber et al (1999) theory in classifying the types of discourse markers and Castro (2009) theory for defining the function of the discourse markers. To get the data, the researcher applied qualitative approach. From this research, the writer found ten types of discourse markers applied by the speakers in their speech. After further analyzing the data, the writer found that the discourse markers used by the speaker served both textual and interpersonal functions divided into several sub-functions. This research showed that the dominant function of discourse markers shown in the data is response or reaction markers and back-channel signals which helps the speaker express a response or reaction to the previous discourse including back-channel signals of understanding and continued attention while other speaker is having his/her turn.
