Contextual Analysis Techniques Research Articles

Linguistic-discursive peculiarities of pronominal usage in political discourse (based on the material of the political talk show "60 Minutes")

This paper considers the specific features of the functioning of pronouns in political discourse. We analyse their role in the speech of the presenters and guests of the "60 Minutes" talk show. It belongs to the television discussion genre whose function is to form a collective political world picture by projecting and broadcasting certain images and meanings. The relevance of the research is due to the need not only for studying communication strategies and tactics in political actors’ speech, but also for analysing the impact of linguistic means on public opinion formation and transformation. Considering pronouns in the functional aspect enables us to identify the characteristic features that make pronouns one of the most effective means of speech influence (persuasion). Possessing manipulative potential, words of this morphological class can participate in the implementation of numerous communicative strategies and tactics, including the upward and downward strategies, the tactics of self-presentation, cooperation, impersonal accusation, discrediting, and the "us–them" opposition. The research uses discourse analysis, interpretation and contextual analysis techniques, and the communicative-pragmatic approach. As the obtained data show, pronouns can be employed to impose certain beliefs and opinions, to enhance the sense of unity and solidarity between the speaker and the audience, to shift the emphasis in the event under discussion. Moreover, they also prove to be a significant characteristic of politicians, reflecting their worldview.

State Corporatism in Village Development Planning

This study departs from the problem that state corporatism is the biggest challenge in realizing village authority. The study of state corporatism has been considered obsolete along with the collapse of authoritarian regimes and governments. After authoritarianism in Indonesia, especially after the enactment of Law No. 6 of 2014 on Villages, state corporatism is very strong in gripping village authority. The question posed in this study is to what extent is state corporatism threatening village authority? Wes used exploratory qualitative methods with case study techniques in Bogem Village, Klaten Regency, Central Java Province, to answer this question—data wes collected by observation, in-depth interviews, and document collection. Data analysis uses triangulation techniques, and findings use interpretive and contextual analysis techniques. Wes found that the state carries out two strategies in corporatism toward villages, namely, a bifrontal strategy and a segmentary strategy. Through these two strategies, village authority and autonomy are weakened in the face of strengthening the grip of the state or village government through various supra-village programs and policies towards villages.

PENGEMBANGAN MODEL PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER EKONOMI MELALUI PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION PADA MAHASISWA EKONOMI DI KOTA MAKASSAR

The purpose of this study was to develop a model of economic character education through outcome-based education-based learning for economics students in the city of Makassar. This type of research is a quantitative research using Explanatory Research method. The location of this research is at several universities in the city of Makassar. The subjects in this study were students of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Makassar City, while the research object was data on the development of an economic character education model through outcome-based education. Data collection techniques using descriptive methods and survey methods through questionnaires. The analysis technique used is to identify the relationship between variables, test hypotheses, and draw conclusions. Each indicator is thoroughly reviewed using contextual analysis techniques. The results of the study explain that outcome-based education-based learning that is implemented in tertiary institutions, especially in the Faculty of Economics and Business in Makassar City, has various influences in improving the economic character of students through assignments from lecturers by going directly to the field to study economic phenomena that exist in society.

Portrayal of the Colonization in Indo-Pak Cinema: A Case Study of Four Period Movies

Cinema is considered a substantial medium in the advancement of narratives. The intention of this study was to determine how the Cinema of the subcontinent responded to the British colonization of India after 50 years of its independence. This paper explores the portrayal of colonization in Indian and Pakistani cinema with special reference to two Indian period films namely “The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2005)” and “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey(2010)” besides two Pakistani period films namely “Jinnah (1998)” and “Laaj (2003)” by the qualitative method of research. After reviewing the tradition of Occidentalism and the historical background of Indian and Pakistani Cinema, the researcher analyzed the films by employing thematic narrative analysis and contextual analysis techniques which enabled him to understand the nature of such depictions besides similarities and differences between Indian and Pakistani Occidentalism. The researcher observed that selected Indian films depict secular nationalist construction; whereas selected Pakistani movies depict religious construction.

Interlanguage interference: Multilevel linguocognitive approach

The article highlights several cognitive, psychological, and linguistic issues, reflecting the problems of the Russian language acquisition by the foreign students in the natural environment. The study is based on modern interpretations of language contacts and the specifics of intercultural communication, multilingualism, and communication studies. The study uses the techniques of a psycholinguistic experiment, a sociolinguistic survey, lexico-semantic and contextual analysis techniques, as well as various approaches to describing speech mistakes because of interlanguage interference. The material for the article was the data of the foreign informants' written survey in the multilingual environment of the host region. In the bilingual Russian-English questionnaire, it was required to justify the choice of the country, the university of study, difficulties in completing educational programs. The survey involved the foreigners who are at different stages of the Russian language acquisition. The main objective of the study was to establish the leading channels of the Russian language perception and to describe the interfering influence of the native languages and dialects of the Hindus, as well as international English, on the language of the host country acquisition. On the text fragments and individual statements, the directions of interlanguage interference were shown, its leading types were identified – phonetic, phonemic, grapheme, morphological and lexical. The role of the English language as an intermediary in the process of the new language acquisition has been established. The performed analysis confirmed the leading position in the sensory system of the auditory perception channel, prevailing over visual perception. There is a tendency to contamination of written and oral speech, compression, and the use of abbreviations; interlanguage interference at the semantic-cognitive, phonetic, phonemic, grapheme, phonemic-grapheme, morphological and lexical levels of the native languages and partially English. The strategy of using Internet translation and literal translation from English into Russian, represented as the author’s text in Russian, is determined. The survey showed that at an advanced level of the Russian language proficiency, the most problematic is the semantic differentiation of single-root lexemes formed prefixally.