DA ASSIGNMENT 1

DA ASSIGNMENT 1

Deni Erwinandari / A. 320090179 / D

1.      Definition of Discourse

Discourse is the way in which language is used socially to convey broad historical meanings. It is language identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is using it and under what conditions. Language can never be 'neutral' because it bridges our personal and social worlds.

2.       

Govt told to merge under-performing regions

The Jakarta Post | Fri, 04/20/2012 10:49 AM

Regional autonomy experts are calling on the central government to focus on merging the country’s worst-performing provinces, regencies and municipalities, given their failure to bring significant progress to their people and strengthen democracy.

Several critics have also urged the government to maintain the moratorium against the creation of new regions, despite proposals for new jurisdictions continually being pushed by lawmakers.

Siti Zuhro, a member of the Home Ministry’s Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) expert team, said the moratorium, set to end in December, should be kept in place to curb political enthusiasm from local elites and political parties to form new regions. According to a government evaluation, almost all of the 205 new regions formed between 2001 and 2008 failed to perform well in improving social welfare and strengthening democracy.

a.      Cohesion

Ø  Substitution

From the article, there is some of substitution used such as experts, country’s, provinces, regencies, municipalities, critics, regions, proposals, jurisdictions, lawmakers, Ministry’s, Sciences, elites, parties and regions.

·         Substitution of a Noun

-          Experts  the meaning to related the official regional autonomy assigned  to encourage the performance of the state, province, county and city.

-          country’s the meaning to related  central government.

-          Provinces the meaning to related part of the country which means its performance is encouraged by the central government.

-          Regencies the meaning to related one of part which means its performance is encouraged by the central government.

-          Municipalities the meaning to related one of part country which means its performance is encouraged by the central government.

-          Critics the meaning to related suggestion from regional autonomy and society to maintain the moratorium against the creation of new regions.

-          Regions the meaning to related location of provinces, regencies and municipalities.

-          Proposals the meaning to related documents which proposed by regional autonomy.

-          Jurisdictions the meaning to related law of government.

-          Lawmakers the meaning to class of central government or parliamentarian such as make regulation of written.

-          Ministry’s the meaning related to departments in the country of central government.

-          Sciences the meaning related to conception of institute of government Indonesia.

-          Elites the meaning to related upper class of home ministry’s in Indonesia.

-          Parties the meaning related to name of class in government.

Ø  Ellipsis

From the article above, there are nothing ellipsis containing in each of words of the article.

Ø  References

The article above not contains the reference because the reporter is report the direct statements of the informant of news.

Ø  Conjunction

The conjunctions which use in the article above such as: and, between

The meaning of each conjunction word is to indicate the relationship between before sentences and the next sentences.

Ø  Lexical Cohesion

·         Repetition

The repetition of the article such as: government, regions and democracy.

The word government means that organization or the leaders of country for regulate some problem in country and the word regions means is location or place which consist of some people and then the word democracy means is discussion of conference together to need and compact the society.

·         Synonymy

In the article above, there is nothing a synonymy words containing.

·         Hyponymy

On the central government to focus on merging the country’s worst-performing provinces, regencies and municipalities. The sentence means the provinces, regencies and municipalities are part of country’s.

·         Metonymy

In the article above, there is nothing a metonymy words containing.

·         Antonymy

 In the article above, there is nothing a metonymy words containing.

b.      Deixis

Ø  Personal Deixis

-          Their means to related member of government.

Ø  Spatial Deixis

In the article above, there is nothing a Spatial Deixis words containing.

Ø  Temporal Deixis

-          End in December means to related Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) expert team, said the moratorium, set to end in December.

Ø  Discourse Deixis

In the article above, there is nothing a Discourse Deixis words containing.

Ø  Social Deixis

“Regional autonomy experts are calling on the central government to focus on merging the country’s worst-performing provinces, regencies and municipalities, given their failure to bring significant progress to their people and strengthen democracy”.

The meaning of this sentence is to give a reason about the problem containing.