The objectives of this study aim to analyze both the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye in terms of conceptual or ideological factors and narrative techniques which influence the construction of the representation... and the relationship between the representation and J.D. Salinger’s views on changes in American society in the 1940s. This area of study might concern two theories: namely, a theory of representation and narratology. In addition, this research is intended

the representations of cultural aspects in the ELT textbooks, which are used in a public primary school where Cambodian, Lao, Myanmar, and Thai learners have created culturally and ethnically diverse landscape. Drawing upon the content analysis, the findings reveal... of cultural representations and learners’ lack of recognition of the sociocultural background depicted. Language teachers and school administrators have become instrumental in narrowing down the cultural gap that exists between the textbooks’ cultural content

The article is a descriptive analysis aimed to demonstrate the signification and representation of sex as presented in the series Sex and the City. Sex and the City was the successful TV series. Sex, of course, was one... that satisfying sexual intercourses suggested long lasting relationships while unsatisfying ones gave clues of failure. The signification of sex to relationship had formed a representation of sex as signifier of relationship.

they do as well as classification in terms of age, gender, and race. The main difference in the representation between these two social groups was the use of Nomination and Physical Identification. Based on our findings, we shed light on the implications

literature in the world, with respect to literary themes and gender representation. The study uses two corpus analysis tools, Wmatrix and AntConc, to generate information such as key semantic fields (thematic categorizations), collocations and concordances

The study investigated the representations of L1 Thai learners on English number agreement, a form which is non-existent in Thai. It is hypothesized that the L2 learners have target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement... 80% on the structures of singular/plural head with modification. However, deviant production was found on irregular nouns. The results indicated the learners’ target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement but incomplete knowledge

This study aims to investigate the representation of the Rohingya in the comments in response to the online BBC News’ YouTube video “Who is burning down Rohingya Villages?” through Transitivity analysis. Transitivity analysis was applied to uncover... characteristics more than negative characteristics in the relational process. The study suggests that representation of the Rohingya can be varied depending on the content providers’ perspectives. The comments from the international audiences appear to imply

literature in the world, with respect to literary themes and gender representation. The study uses two corpus analysis tools, Wmatrix and AntConc, to generate information such as key semantic fields (thematic categorizations), collocations and concordances

of material, mental and relational process, but different in terms of verbal processes. Overall, the identical pattern of self-representation may be an indication of their attempts to mitigate the psychological and communications space called ‘transactional

and elaborate on the signification of the representation. This descriptive qualitative study focuses on finding the ideational meaning by identifying the type of processes used in the clauses and images of the picturebook and the intersemiotic relation between... them. The data were analyzed by employing Halliday’s transitivity system, Kress and Leeuwen’s visual grammar, and Royce’s intersemiotic complementarity. The findings showed that for the verbal representation, the most dominant process used