Anaphora: Journal of Language. Literary and Cultural Studies

Anaphora : Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, open access, and biannual academic journal dedicated to the publications of research in the areas of language, literature, and culture studies. Anaphora: Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on publishing research with the following areas: Applied Linguistics Language Acqusition Interdisciplinary Linguistics Literary Criticism Literature Theory Interdisciplinary Literature Cultural Studies Culture and Language.

List of Papers (Total 109)

Dialogues of Depth: Exploring Character and Theme in Ana María Rozo's The Little Prince

Ana María Rozo’s adaptation of The Little Prince delves into the emotional and philosophical depth through dialogue-driven interactions among the Aviator, the Little Prince, and the Fox. While much research has explored the themes of the original story, limited attention has been paid to how dialogue in theatrical adaptations reveals character psychology and advances the...

From Stage to Screen: Analysis of Women's Commodification in Dangdut Koplo via TikTok

Dangdut is a genre of music that has evolved into a cultural phenomenon within Indonesian society, particularly among the middle and lower socioeconomic classes. Dangdut music first featured lyrics with significant meaning and later evolved into dangdut koplo. Dangdut koplo is frequently linked to a rapid tempo and captivating vocalists. The objective of this study is to examine...

Behind The Wickedness: Portrayal of Villains in Children's Movies

Children’s movies showed various characters in their movies. One of the concerns in creating stories for children was the portrayal of the villains. Therefore, the research problem of this study was to discussed the villain portrayal of three different home productions, such as Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and Sony Pictures Animation. The movies from each...

Integrating Indonesian Cultural Aspects in Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing (BIPA) Textbooks “Sahabatku Indonesia”

This research describes the cultural aspects of the BIPA textbook “Sahabatku Indonesia”. This research applies a qualitative content analysis. Several cultural aspects are found in the BIPA book levels B1, B2, C1, and C2. BIPA Book level B1 shows the traditional transportation of Becak, the traditional medicine Kerokan, a side dish Tempe, the cultural heritage of Tenun, a...

Religious and Numinous Practices in the Novel Pomegranate Bloom

A novel entitled 石榴花开 Shiliu Huakai ‘Pomegranate Bloom’ (Trans. Mine) (2019) falls into a literary subgenre 乡土文学 xiangtu wenxue ‘native-soil literature’ and it is composed by a Shandong-born fictionist 耿雪凌 Geng Xueling (1968- ). Apart from salient folk attributes paining a vivid portrait of the rural area of southwest Shandong, Pomegranate Bloom is also featured by numinous...

Audism and The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Model in CODA Film

Injustices in the form of discrimination are experienced frequently in the workplace by oppressed groups, including people with disabilities. Discrimination towards deaf people is audism, and it can spur from many groups or bodies, as well as Deaf people themselves. This research aims to elucidate whether there is disability or not in employment context in Leo and Frank...

Marginalized Voices in Iraqi Fiction: A textual reading of Inaam Kachachi's The Dispersal

The current paper discusses the representation of Iraqi female narratives and the experience of Wardiyah in Kachachi's The Dispersal. It shows how Iraqi women's fiction uses writing techniques to express political conflicts. It examines the challenges faced by Wardiyah in her pursuit of a medical career in the fifties of the twentieth century in the context of Iraq and later her...

Sara Mills' Critical Discourse: Women Stereotypes in Indonesian Netizen Comments on Gita Savitri's Video

Indonesia has a patriarchal culture. As a result, Gita Savitri's childfree statement shocked Indonesian society, exposing the country's long-standing patriarchal position. In the video, Gita says that her choice is a form of resistance to patriarchal culture and that it is critical to assist women in this respect. The study's objectives are to examine the subject-object position...

Opinion Piece Construction of R20 Forum on thejakartapost.com: Van Dijk's Model Critical Discourse Analysis

Ideology flows through ideas or discourses, whether deliberate or not. This study aims to analyze the construction of an opinion piece entitled “R20, global change and transformation of religions” published by The Jakarta Post. Using the descriptive qualitative method, this study examines the structure of the text with the Critical Discourse Analysis model that Teun A. Van Dijk...

Women’s Roles in Aboriginal Australian and Talang Mamak Literary Works

This research conducts a comparative analysis of the representation of women's roles in the Aboriginal society of Australia and the Talang Mamak society in Riau Province, Indonesia, through the literary works "Alinta, The Flame" by Hyllus Maris and Sonia Borg, and "Behuma" by Gunawan. The study aims to contribute to understanding gender dynamics in Indigenous communities...

Expressive Speech Acts Analysis of Percy Jackson’s Movie (2010)

Illocutionary activities include expressive acts among their types. This study aimed to find and identify types of expressive speech acts. This study used theories from Searle and Vanderveken (1985) by analyzing the film Percy Jackson (2010). Researchers used qualitative methods to collect the data. Researchers used observation methods and note-taking techniques. For analysis...

Indonesian Translation of Cultural Words in ‘The Book of Lost Things’

Cultural differences between Indonesian and English can cause problems in translation. In translating cultural words, various aspects should be considered with the aim of producing quality translations of cultural words. This research aims to discover cultural words and their categories, as well as translation techniques employed to translate them in the novel ‘The Book of Lost...

The Decline of Negative Stereotype on Chinese Brand Smartphone

People’s preferences for particular brands of smartphones are inextricably linked to the variety of smartphones available in the market. As the emerging power of the world economy, China also has many smartphone brands which are highly distributed in the global market, including in Indonesia despite the negative stigma which attached to the brands. The study examines this...

Individualism and Nonconformity in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”

The research entitled Individualism and Nonconformity in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is cultural study about literature. Written in 1915 in England, "The Road Not Taken" is one of Robert Frost's—and the world's most well-known poems. The poem implicitly delved individualism and nonconformity. The poem can be interpreted as a critique of people’s propensity to second-guess...

English Registers of Hotels’ Signage in Surabaya

This study focuses on the concept of register in sociolinguistics and its relevance to the study of language usage in different domains. Registers represent specific language varieties associated with particular professional or social groups, characterized by distinct vocabulary and sentence structures. The study specifically is to identify the different registers used in hotel...

The Significance of Socially Constructed Behaviors to Modern Identities on Em Beihold’s "City of Angels"

This article examines perspectives of modern identities in matters of socially constructed behaviors in the song of Em Beihold entitled City of Angels. People recently are attempting to attain a similar level of status and recognition by imitating these figures in appearances, behaviors, and lifestyles. This idea is also reflected on City of Angels is a song by Em Beihold...

Nigeria Policemen Digital Memes as Reformative Indices

The corrupt activities of some officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) at checkpoints have in recent times drawn the senses of hypermemetic logic. A number of research studies have investigated Nigerian police discourse. However, digital memes deployed to reflect corruption-related activities at police checkpoints have attracted inconsequential research. This paper, therefore...

The Representations of Socialist Feminism on Lesley Gore’s You Don't Own Me

This article exposes analysis of socialist feminism through the song of Lesley Gore entitled You Don't Own Me. Popularized in the 1960s, this song conveys the strength of a woman to fight against any dictation and to reject the wishes of men. This is in line with Clara Zetkin’s socialist feminism in which a woman must always be free from any man’s possession. Zetkin bases her...

Masterchef Canada Judges’ Strategies for Giving Compliments in the Season 7 Finale

This descriptive qualitative research sought to examine compliment as one of the pragmatics phenomena. The object of this research is compliment strategies applied to acknowledge contestants as interlocutors. The finale episode of MasterChef Canada season 7 entitled “And the Winner of Season 7 Is…” became the data source. It got Claudio Aprile, Michael Bonacini, and Alvin Leung...

Comparison of Women and Prostitution in Woman at Point Zero and Tuhan Izinkan Aku Menjadi Pelacur

Everyone has their rights from birth, but not everyone has the same degree of freedom as everyone else, especially if they belong to a minority group. Because of this, women have always been subject to male power and marginalized in all aspects. Due to disappointment toward the gender differences and objectification, many women fall into a profession that is considered taboo and...

Non-EFL Students’ Perception of Grammar and Their Ability in Understanding Basic Grammar

This study describes the students’ perception of grammar and to know their ability in understanding basic grammar. This research is descriptive qualitative. The analysis shows that students like learning English grammar because grammar is a rule or guideline related to English proficiency. But a lot of grammar material must be learned because it is very complicated, complex, and...

The Importance of English Practice to Overcome the Students of Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Difficulty in Learning English

Learning English as a foreign language attracts many problems. This research investigates the students’ difficulties, factors affecting the difficulties, and the students' solutions to learning the English language. This research used a qualitative approach. The respondents of this research are fifteen students of the English Education Study Program The respondents were chosen...

Embracing Google Translate: EFL Students’ Attitudes on Enhancing Literacy Practice

This study investigates students' attitudes toward the use of Google Translate (GT) in their online literacy practices. The study looks at the results of an online questionnaire survey completed by 70 students studying English Language Education at Universitas Sintuwu Maroso in Poso, Central Sulawesi. The purpose of this research is to examine how students' attitudes regarding GT...

Popularizing the Gay Characters: A Study of American Gay-Themed TV Series in 2000s

This study is a qualitative research which concentrates on the rise of TV series gay characters on American televisions starting in the early 2000s. The emergence of gay TV series in 2000s has made this phenomena interesting as well as essential to discuss since American television in the pre 2000s era was not not open about the gay characters in television series. The data for...