Department of English Literature: Recent submissions
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Language And Masculinity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Masculinity Construction in Men’s Product Advertisements
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)This research aims to find out what kind of depictions of men are shown in men's product advertisements to build an image of masculinity and analyze how masculinity is constructed through language in these advertisements. ... -
An Analysis of Deixis in Mark Zuckerberg’s Speech at Meta Connect 2024
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)The aims of this study is to analyze the use of deixis in Mark Zuckerberg's speech at Meta Connect 2024 using George Yule's Theory. In addition, this study also examines the context of the situation to illustrate how the ... -
Experiential Function in Selected English Nursery Tales
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)Nursery tales help develop children’s knowledge and imagination. Thus, analyzing their experiential function is important to see if they suit children’s age. The objectives of this study are: to identify the types of ... -
Metode Penerjemahan dan Kualitas Versi Bahasa Inggris Cerita Rakyat Putri Mambang Linau
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)This study investigates the translation methods and the quality of the English version of the Putri Mambang Linau folklore. The objectives of this research are (1) to identify the translation methods used in the English ... -
An Analysis of Speech Acts Performed by The Main Characters in The Social Network Movie
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This study analyzes the types of speech acts used by the main characters, Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, in the movie The Social Network. The study aims to classify these speech acts into three categories: locutionary, ... -
Multimodal Analysis of British Council English Course Brochures
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)This linguistic study is concerned with multimodal texts that contain the interaction between verbal and visual semiotic modes. The objectives of this study are (1) to identify the verbal and visual elements of British ... -
Gender Representation in Indonesian Government Endorsed and Global Publisher English Textbooks A Critical Discourse Analysis
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This research aims to investigate the proportion of male and female representation in English textbooks Authorized by the Indonesian Government Endorsed and Global Publishers in domestic and professional roles as well as ... -
An Analysis of Word Frequency & Collocation in Malala's Discourse
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This research discusses word frequency and collocation in Malala's discourse. This thesis aims to identify the language used in the discourse, such as word frequencies, and to analyze collocations in order to convey the ... -
Lexical Relations in the Weeknd’s Selected Song Lyrics A Semantic Analysis
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2023)The purpose of this study was to analyze the important of lexical relations and meaning properties as part of semantic features. This research also aims to explain the types of lexical relations and to find the most dominant ... -
Multimodal Analysis on the Multifaceted Universe of the 2023 The Flash Movie
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)"The Flash" movie that released in 2023 is a movie from the multifaceted world of the DC Universe. This study aimed to uncover the meaning representation of the main character in this movie. A descriptive qualitative ... -
Multimodal Anlysis on Team RRQ and EVOS E-Sport’s Team Jersey
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)The aims of the study are to identify the multimodal elements of Team RRQ and EVOS E-sports’s jersey and to describe the multimodal elements of Team RRQ and EVOS E-sports’s jersey that represent the meaning. This study use ... -
Toponymy of Buildings in Kesawan Square Medan: A Semantic Analysis
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This study aims to analyze the names of buildings and provide valuable insights into the semantic analysis of building names in Kesawan Square, Medan. The research method employed is qualitative analysis, which seeks to ... -
A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of Margaret Atwood’s Novel The Handmaid’s Tale
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This research explores The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood through a feminist stylistic lens, focusing on how language is used to represent gender. Employing Sara Mills' feminist stylistic theory, this research ... -
Ambiguity in the Headline of Jakarta Post Article
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This thesis is entitled Ambiguity in the Headline Jakarta Post Article. The purposes of this thesis are to determine the types of ambiguity and to find out the dominant type of ambiguity found in the headline Jakarta ... -
A Contrastive Analysis between British and American In Pronouncing Diphthongs
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)Since British Standard English is the most prestigious accents and used as a model in teaching pronunciation meanwhile there is no widely used term for the most prestigious accent of General American. The objectives of ... -
Improving Listening Ability of Students of the SMA Negeri 1 Pegajahan through English Songs
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2024)This research is to know about the improvement of student’s listening ability on a weak form of functional word. To improve the student’s listening ability, the researcher uses songs as media. The research data are taken ... -
Violation of The Conversational Maxims in "Wednesday" Series
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)This research analyzes the violations of conversational principles in the Wednesday series using H.P. Grice's Cooperative Principle and Christoffersen’s the reason of violating the maxims theory in which identified eight ... -
An Analysis of Directive Speech Act in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Movie
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)The purpose of this thesis is to describe the types of directive speech acts found in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom movie and to explain how the types of directive speech acts in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom movie. This thesis ... -
Interpersonal Metaphor in Teacher’s Talk: A Case Study in Panca Budi Kindergarten Medan
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)This study investigates the use of interpersonal metaphors in teacher talk at Panca Budi Kindergarten in Medan from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The research focuses on how teachers use ... -
ECOCRITICISM IN THE MOVIE AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
(Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2025)This study examines the representation of ecocriticism in the film Avatar: The Way of Water using Lawrence Buell's ecocritical theory. The main focus of this research is to identify how environmental destruction such ...