Applied linguistics

Intrapersonal communication is language or thought that occurs within the communicator. In order to effectively communicate with others, you must first acknowledge intraprasonal communication - how you communicate with yourself. However, intrapersonal communication is occasionally guided by interpersonal communication. While there are many types of intrapersonal communication, each one is equally important to identify and understand. Through identification and personal examples, intrapersonal…

Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) is a communication theory that explain about the development of interpersonal relationship between peoples. It is important to know that URT is a theory that link communication to the study of uncertainty. Uncertainty reduction theory focuses on how people by using communication can gain knowledge and create understanding towards each other. Every new relationship involve uncertainty and these uncertainty will create uncomfortable inside each person, so they…

Coercion is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as, to force one to act or think in a certain manner, to dominate, restrain, or control by force. Often at work or in a group environment one might utilise this form of power to control dominance over the group. This usage of power can often make other team members conform. In another definition, coercion is described as "using force or authority to make a person do something against his or her will" (Collins Compact Dictionary, 2001, p.166).…

In the Indonesian context, Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) or public vocational school is educational system where students are prepared to be able to involve in many aspects of global contention. To fulfil that demand, one of the keys with which students should be equipped is the ability to use English since it is the language used in the global communication. However, as mentioned in Ministry of Education and Culture Regulation (2014 No. 60) the English that should be mastered by SMK students…

Conventionally, communication has been defined as the process through which information is shared between individuals and businesses. This process of flow of information between individuals may be undertaken either verbally or non-verbally. Words are usually utilized in verbal communication while non-verbal communication takes place through gestures, body language, facial expressions, eye contact, posture, or behavior. The individual or business that chooses to utilize their knowledge of…

Cultural industries come from the two words ‘culture’ and ‘industry’, and therefore from the term ‘Cultural Industry’. The term culture industry was created by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (CITE). The word Culture defines as “the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.” (dictionary.com). On the contrary Industry could be defined as that refers to consumption, commodification and…

In the preface of the book, “Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development”, Anna Wierzbicka explains that the people who are bilingual, are facing problems every day, due to the sense of the meaning of an word or a frase. She is focusing on multilingualism and emotions, the things that make harder the meanings of understanding between people. Also, she gives examples from her own life, whice are accurate, and shows very clearly the differences between languages. She was born in Poland…

Cultural awareness is very important and significant point in learning language. So, first of all, we should analysis what is culture and cultural awareness, connections between language and culture. There are different conceptions of culture. Culture has been referred to as ‘the ways of a people’. This view incorporates both ‘material’ manifestations of culture that are easily seen and ‘non-material’ ones that are more difficult to observe, as Saville-Troike notes. Anthropologists define…

Karl Beck son and Arthur Gang define the term “Synaethesia” as the intermingling of sensations; the sensing for example of certain sounds through colors or odors .(Beck son and Ganz,209) .Fogle , while amplifying Professor June E. Downey”s concept of synasthesia ,hints at the possibility of visual participation in some of the sensation clusters concerned : “ The function of all poetic imagery is to order ,relate, and unify desperate modes of physical, mental and emotional experience…

Literary theory consists of various principles, beliefs and underlying ideas that are used to understand and analyze different pieces of texts in literature. An interesting way to view literary theory is by considering theories as tools. Critics take these tool and apply it to a text in an attempt to look at it from a different perspective. It grants them the ability to examine a particular aspect of a text, which they regard of significant importance. When these theories are passed onto readers…