This paper takes a critical look at the news reports of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia on Mina stampede. Previous studies have indicated that media discourse contributes to public opinion and ideology. Little, however, has been mentioned on how variation in media discourse affects the process. This study analyzed 24 news reports from the two countries from 24 to 31 September 2015...

Effective communication in clinical interaction is an important issue because the message must be received appropriately by patient to increase patient’s health quality. It could become more complex when occurred sensitive contexts such as delivery of bad news related patient's condition. Studies on genre delivering doctors and linguistic features used that are realized medical-themed movies ha...

As students’ academic language ability grows, they are expected to move from summarizing or retelling works of literature to studying texts critically. With this comes the demand for more developed literacy skills or, as those working from a systemic functional linguistic perspective would argue, an increase in the students’ resources for making meaning in an ever-widening variety of contexts (...

Written assessment feedback in higher education has been examined from different perspectives. However, there is limited empirical evidence of how tutors use language to provide on students’ assessed academic writing. By deploying the rarely used Appraisal framework Systemic Functional Linguistics, this innovative study evaluative by undergraduate business writing two assignments at a distance ...

This qualitative case study research set out to look at the concepts of hegemony and power in supervisory meetings centered on idea linguistic ideologies. Two BS (English) supervisees their supervisors were chosen for as two studies recorded later transcribed analysis purpose. The adopted Halliday’s Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) data collection Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse A...

In 16], Warren suggested a method for embedding higher-order (HO) programming constructs into Prolog, that can be viewed as a kind of higher-order into rst-order (FO) translation. This method has been used in diierent settings as a tool for the combination of functional and logic programming 3, 2, 1], or even for the reduction of the former to the later 4]. The present paper was motivated by ou...

To better engage with patients, nurses need employ various communication skills, particularly “engagement strategies” that enable them to understand, elicit or empathize patients’ concerns. Such engagement is essential delivering good patient-centered care. This paper describes one part of a mixed-methods needs analysis: the aim was find and analyze illustrative examples actual nursing in Engli...

The novel as a modern literary genre is generally regarded as the realization of its main character's journey from immaturity to a status of maturity. The character, usually an uncomplicated person unable to cope with the complexities of life at first, gains an insight and understanding to handle his/her complex situation accordingly later in the novel. It is usually agreed in both literary cri...

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menguraikan transitivitas dalam teks pidato Presiden RI Joko Widodo dengan menggunakan pendekatan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Pendekatan yang digunakan penelitian adalah System-Theoretic (SFL) deskriptif kualitatif. Sumber data berupa tentang pelonggaran masker. Cara pengumpulan analisis teknik menyimak dan mencatat. Penerapan metode membaca pidato. Kem...