This study examines Khilma Anis's novel Hati Suhita through the lens of semiotic ideology as outlined by Webb Keane. Semiotic ideology involves people's core assumptions about signs, their functions, and potential impacts. The research aims to uncover how signs within the novel depict patriarchal systems in pesantren families and highlight women's acts of resistance. Employing a qualitative methodology with a Peircean semiotic framework, informed by semiotic ideology, the findings indicate that: (1) the tradition of arranged marriages acts as a signifier representing patriarchal dominance in pesantren households; (2) the husband's silence and refusals symbolize naturalized masculine authority; (3) the determination and escape of the female character to her mother symbolize resistance to patriarchal dominance; and (4) a tension exists between semiotic ideologies of pesantren traditions and individual female agency. This research offers insights into how pesantren literature both reproduces and questions social power structures through signs.

This study examines how three Arabic-language news organizations, namely Al Jazeera Arabic, Asharq Al-Awsat, and Okaz, report protests in Indonesia. The study uses Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) method to analyze news through the lens of social practices that reinforce ideology and power relations, rather than as an objective portrayal of reality. News collected from the official websites of each media outlet and analyzed at the textual, discourse, and social levels forms the research data. Qualitative linguistic analysis is used as the methodology in this study. The findings indicate that these media outlets have very different ideologies. By presenting the social grievances of the protesters and being careful not to criticize the state, Al Jazeera Arabic succeeds in providing a fairly diverse narrative. While Asharq Al-Awsat relies on official sources to highlight the themes of order and security, Okaz uses symbolic delegitimization to portray the protests as a threat to national stability. Studies like this reinforce the idea that the ideological leanings and political agendas of different Arab media influence how the public perceives political protests in Indonesia.

Reporting on Israeli attacks on Beirut reveals divergent media framings of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict, demonstrating that media actively shape public perceptions rather than merely transmitting information. This study compares the framing of Israeli attacks on Beirut in AP News, Reuters, and The Guardian using Robert Entman’s framing analysis, focusing on problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation. Employing a descriptive qualitative method, thematically similar news articles published within comparable timeframes are analyzed to identify framing differences across outlets. The findings show that AP News adopts a security-oriented framing that presents Hezbollah as the main threat and legitimizes Israeli military actions, while Reuters offers a more balanced perspective by situating the attacks within concerns over escalation and regional stability. Conversely, The Guardian emphasizes humanitarian impacts, civilian casualties, and the escalation of violence. These differences indicate that media framing shapes the positioning of conflict actors, the construction of military legitimacy, and implied resolutions, confirming the media’s role as discursive actors in international conflict narratives.

Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) provides extensive authentic input; however, its casual digital register often diverges from the formal sociopragmatic requirements of vocational contexts. This study investigates the impact of such informal exposure on Willingness to Communicate (WTC) among 229 vocational school students. To address self-report bias, the data were collected using a situated measurement protocol through a validated 15-item questionnaire that measured Receptive IDLE (consuming content), Productive IDLE (creating content), and WTC, following industry-specific simulations that anchored WTC in a professional rather than social context. Descriptive analysis revealed a "scrolling" phenomenon: students were highly engaged in receptive activities like watching TikTok/Instagram Reels (M = 3.08), but showed low engagement in productive activities such as online chatting (M = 2.31). Pearson correlation analysis indicated a statistically significant but weak positive correlation between Receptive IDLE and WTC (r = 0.260, p < 0.01) and a negligible correlation between Productive IDLE and WTC (r = 0.139, p < 0.05). Rather than dismissing these weak correlations as negligible, this study interprets them as empirical evidence of a pragmatic dissonance, that is, a critical gap in which informal digital pragmatic linguistic gains fail to transfer into professional sociopragmatic competence. The findings suggest that while 'scrolling' and 'posting' increase familiarity, they do not inherently build professional confidence. Therefore, it is suggested that educators bridge this dissonance through a mixed or combined pedagogical approach that integrates explicit register awareness with task-based vocational simulations to transform informal digital input into professionally competent output.

Every word spoken, every sentence constructed, and every discourse contains ideological weight that reflects the power structures within society. In the political landscape of the United States, presidential speeches hold a special position as a genre of discourse that not only reflects the individual vision of a leader, but also represents the aspirations, values, and identity of the nation. This phenomenon becomes even more significant when analyzed through the lens of critical discourse analysis, which allows researchers to uncover layers of meaning hidden behind linguistic constructions. This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine Barack Obama's farewell speech as a complex discourse practice that reflects and shapes contemporary American socio-political reality. Using Fairclough's three-dimensional analytical framework, this study analyzes the speech in terms of its textual, discursive, and sociocultural dimensions during the contentious transition to the Trump administration. Textual analysis reveals the strategic use of language with carefully chosen vocabulary and grammatical constructions, reinforcing the themes of unity and democracy. At the discourse practice level, the speech employs effective rhetorical strategies, including personal addresses and compelling narratives to build emotional connections with the audience. Sociocultural analysis shows deep integration with the American institutional context, evidenced by the strategic choice of location in Chicago, acknowledgment of racial challenges, and calls to overcome intensifying political polarization. Findings indicate that Obama's farewell speech illustrates how political discourse functions as an instrument for maintaining and transforming democratic values during critical political transitions. The speech's power stems from its sophisticated linguistic construction and its capacity to respond to the broader sociopolitical context with profound nuance.

Colloquial language frequently appears in contemporary films, making it challenging for translators to convey natural meaning and contextual implications across different languages and cultures. This study examines the subtitling strategies employed to translate colloquial expressions in Madame Web (2024), available on Netflix. The research focuses on identifying the types of colloquial expressions produced by the main female characters and analyzing the strategies employed by the translator in transferring meaning from English into Indonesian. A qualitative descriptive approach was adopted, drawing upon Gottlieb’s (1992) subtitling strategy framework and Partridge’s (1954) classification of colloquial forms. The data were collected through observation and note-taking, examining the utterances of the main characters in both the source language and their translated subtitles. Among the fifty-four colloquial expressions identified, seven out of Gottlieb’s ten strategies were observed, with paraphrasing used most frequently. The findings suggest that the translator tends to adapt the meaning to ensure the message remains natural and easily comprehensible to the target-language audience. Furthermore, the most frequent colloquial forms found were phrasal verbs and single words, reflecting a conversational style typical of native speakers in informal contexts. Overall, the findings suggest that the translator strives to maintain language appropriateness and clear meaning when translating expressions that lack direct Indonesian equivalents.

This study examines young children’s speech acts during shared book reading within a natural family setting. The data consist of 151 naturally occurring utterances produced by two children aged 5 and 7 years (RA and NH) while reading several storybooks with their mother. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, the study employed recording, transcription, utterance unit identification, and coding based on Searle’s classification of speech acts and Austin’s concept of illocutionary functions. The findings reveal that representative acts dominate the children’s utterances (81), followed by directives (31), expressives (30), and commissives (9). Declarative acts were absent, as young children do not yet possess the social authority required to perform linguistically transformative actions. The analysis also shows distinct pragmatic patterns between the two children: NH produced more representative and inferential utterances, whereas RA tended to use expressive and directive acts when responding to the story and illustrations. These results demonstrate that shared book reading provides a rich context for eliciting diverse speech acts and highlights developmental differences in the pragmatic abilities of children aged 5–7. This study contributes to the field by presenting naturalistic data from an Indonesian family context and by emphasizing the role of shared book reading interactions in shaping early pragmatic development.

This study aims to analyze defamatory speech acts on social media from a forensic pragmatics perspective using a documentation study method. The research is grounded in the growing number of cases involving utterances that damage the reputation of individuals or groups through digital platforms such as Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and YouTube. The research data were obtained from digital documentation in the form of posts, comments, and screenshots, supported by scholarly literature and relevant legal decisions. The analysis was conducted by identifying types of speech acts (locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary), communication contexts, and reputational effects based on Austin and Searle’s speech act theory. The findings indicate that the most dominant forms of speech acts in defamation cases are illocutionary assertives (43.34%) and expressive acts (40%), typically manifested as accusations, insults, or insinuations that harm a person’s reputation. However, given the complex and multimodal nature of online discourse often infused with cultural implicatures, irony, and digital semiotics the classical speech act framework may not be sufficient to capture the full pragmatic meaning. Therefore, integrating complementary approaches such as the appraisal system, stance analysis, or multimodal pragmatics can provide a more nuanced understanding of evaluative positioning, affective stance, and meaning construction in social media interactions. The forensic pragmatics analysis also reveals that indirect speech acts often carry the same legal consequences as explicit utterances, depending on the context, speaker's intention, and public perception. Digital traces (screenshots, metadata, comments, and reposts) are shown to function as linguistic forensic evidence in legal proceedings. The study concludes that the forensic pragmatics approach is effective for analyzing defamatory utterances, as it enables the simultaneous assessment of linguistic, contextual, and legal dimensions. The study recommends collaboration among linguists, law enforcement, and policymakers in developing guidelines for addressing defamation cases on social media.

Presupposition in descriptive utterances functions as an effective linguistic strategy for subtly instilling philosophical and theological assumptions, as manifested in the contemporary song "Ingsun" by Sujiwo Tejo. This study aims to examine the forms and functions of presupposition that construct the concept of Kawula-Gusti (Servant-God relationship) in the song's lyrics, and to analyze its relevance as Javanese language teaching material in Junior High Schools. This research employs a descriptive qualitative approach with data collection techniques utilizing listening and note-taking, based on the synthesis of presupposition theories by Stalnaker, Karttunen, and Yule, combined with Austin's locutionary acts and Keraf’s descriptive theory. The findings indicate that the lyrics are dominated by lexical and existential presuppositions which implicitly instill a profound understanding of Dununge (Position), Kuwasane (Authority), and Nuju Gambuhe (Union) of the Kawula-Gusti. The descriptive utterances require the listener's cognitive accommodation to accept theological truths as background facts without rigid indoctrination. These findings have strong pedagogical relevance for Javanese Language learning at the JHS Phase D level within the Merdeka Curriculum framework, particularly for training students' interpretive abilities toward implicit meaning and strengthening character based on the Pancasila Student Profile. However, acknowledging that the reliance on a single culturally and theologically dense text limits generalizability across diverse learner backgrounds, this study recommends extending the analytical framework to multiple Javanese texts of varying genres and difficulty levels to ensure broader applicability and instructional flexibility.