Riyadi Santosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6910303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Riyadi Santosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Riyadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Santosa |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOSA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sebelas Maret University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9677-2253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring the Microinsult Strategy (Assumption of Criminal Status) in 12 Years a Slave Through the Judgment System
Assumption of criminal status is a microinsult subcategory within racial microaggressions, explored in this study through the appraisal system of judgment to analyze its depiction in the movie 12 Years a Slave. The research focuses on utterances containing judgment evaluations, extracted from narrative stages, including Orientation, Complication, and Resolution. Data were collected through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with linguistic experts and …
Politeness Strategies in Interrogation Speech Acts
This study investigated the translation of illocutionary acts and politeness strategies within interrogation speech events. It uses Agatha Christie's novel A Murder Is Announced and its Indonesian translation as a case study. The research addresses a gap in existing literature, which primarily focuses on politeness in formulaic language and lacks a detailed analysis of more complex, context-driven speech acts like interrogations. Employing a qual…
Translation of Expressive Speech Acts by Protagonist and Antagonist Characters in the Witcher Series
This study examines the translation of expressive speech acts in the Netflix series The Witcher, focusing on the protagonist Geralt of Rivia and the antagonist Cahir Mawr Dyffryn. Expressive speech acts—such as apology, gratitude, condolence, lament, congratulation, protest, and praise—play a crucial role in conveying emotions and shaping character identity. A total of 158 utterances were analyzed from English–Indonesian subtitle pairs using qual…
A Translation Analysis of Attitude in the Motivational Book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This research aims to analyze the types of attitudes as an appraisal system, identify the techniques used in translating them from English to Indonesian, identify shifts in translating this system, and assess the impact of translation techniques on quality. It belongs to descriptive-qualitative research with an embedded case study design. In addition, the current study uses a purposive sampling technique to select its data sources. Moreover, it a…
Improving Public Literacy in Hate Speech Cases on Social Media as an Effort to Mitigate Legal and Social Impacts
Hate speech does not receive serious attention from the community, so hate speech cases often recur. This research seeks to explain the forms and types of potentially criminal speech, especially insults on social media, as well as the mindset developed by insult perpetrators. This research uses a qualitative method that focuses on one issue of defamation. The data source is a copy of the final decision of a defamation case. The data was collected…
The Hidden Dynamics of (Im)politeness in Offensive and Defensive Reactions to Online Loans
The aim of this research is to explore the implied meaning of (im)politeness in the offensive and defensive responses of online loan debtors. The method used is verbal communication analysis and data collection through case studies. Research findings show that the influence of dynamic cultural shifts provides space for these two responses as alternative speech partners. The offensive response aims to attack the interlocutor with greater intensity…
A Qur’anic Discourse Analysis
Unveiling the Constructed Identity of Santris
This article aims at finding how santris living at modern pesantren construct their identities. The study is conducted at MBI AU a pesantren in Mojokerto, East Java with 156 respondents, 79 males and 77 females. The data are taken from their chats in WhatsApp groups for private contexts and from book communication and their public performance for public context. Interview is also conducted to support the data. The study reveals that at the macro …
Designing and assessing experiential learning pedagogy for an intercultural communicative competence training module
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is crucial for future workers in the global job market, where many feels unprepared to communicate effectively with culturally diverse colleagues. Therefore, university students must develop this skill to stay competitive. Experiential learning pedagogy, focused on ICC training, can enhance final-year students’ abilities, offering an alternative to traditional teaching methods. To examine the effective…
Preserving Face Threatening Acts in the English Translation of Bumi Manusia
This research aims to find the types of FTA contained in the English translation of the novel Bumi Manusia. Apart from that, this research also analyses translation techniques and the level of translation accuracy. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The research results state that there are two main types of FTA, namely Positive Face Threatening Acts (PFTA) and Negative Face Threatening Acts (NFTA). There is a predominance of PF…
Examining Social Actors in Investment Fraud News
This study examined media-framed investment fraud issues through critical discourse analysis (CDA) by Fairclough (1995). It analyzed the impact of context on text, employing van Dijk's (2009) theory of news discourse and van Leeuwen's (2008) framework for social actors (SAs) in investment fraud news, they were the affiliate (AF), the investor (IF), and the police (PL). Transitivity analysis (TA) was used to assess power relationships, while the a…
Exploring the Genre of International Online Communication to Map the Stages and Phases in the Participants’ Analytical Exposition Texts
In the current digital age, an online messaging platform called the International Virtual Exchange (IVE) Program is widely utilized in the English language learning process. The participants of the IVE Program are learners from non-native English-speaking countries with different cultural contexts, so they may have different realizations of genre structures. Most studies employing genre analysis only covered the genre stages without analyzing the…
Masculinity Unveiled
This study aims to identify the manifestations of masculinity portrayed by the main characters in the Twilight Saga novel series and to examine the appraisal system utilized to articulate masculinity and its subsequent translation. This research employed qualitative descriptive research. This research was oriented towards translation products. Data sources, including documents and informants, were selected through purposive sampling. The novels T…
Appraising Romanticism in Autobiographical Text
This study aims to examine the appraisal of romanticism in autobiographical text from the perspective of translation study. The data were purposely taken from the autobiography of the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, titled Sukarno, An Autobiography as told to Cindy Adams (1965) and its Indonesian translation (2014). The appraisal resources of romanticisms were evaluated by using Martin and White framework (2005) particularly in terms of at…
Preserving Meaning or Form
The research aims to analyze the structure of the lines of verse in "Hamlet", examines the translation techniques employed, and understands their impact. This study adopts a descriptive qualitative approach with case studies on translation products. It used purposive sampling to select documents, specifically the original verses from "Hamlet" and their Indonesian translations. It gathered insights from informants, including a literary expert, a t…
Can Translation Alter Political Persona? The Case of the Rhetorical Repertoire of Obama and Trump Translated From English to Indonesian
As rhetoric in political speeches represents a particular persona that political figures strive to cultivate, that rhetoric should project the same image as the original when translated. Therefore, this study aims to explore the shifts in rhetorical strategy categories as seen in the translation of the political speeches of former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump from English to Indonesian, how they affect message correctness, and ho…
Pemetaan Vitalitas dan Upaya Revitalisasi Bahasa Jawa Berdasarkan Kategori Usia di Kelurahan Mekar Sari
Regional languages that are used less will end in language extinction. There needs to be revitalization efforts to increase the vitality of regional languages, mainly in multicultural areas. This research examines the vitality of the Javanese language in Mekar Sari Village and its mapping and revitalization. This research is qualitative research with a field research model. The data for this research are Javanese people in Mekar Sari Village. The…
Translation analysis of Afghan female character through politeness strategy
The present paper aims to analyze how the main character, Mariam, in A Thousand Splendid Suns was characterized through the politeness strategy in English, and how its characterization is translated into the Indonesian Language. This study is a single holistic case study design, and the researcher collected and analyzed dialogues representing the politeness strategies of Mariam through document analysis and validated through Focused Group Discuss…
Uncovering intention behind the translation of headlines
News headlines play a prominent role in both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors of news translation. This study aims at describing how thematic structure of news headlines represents news writer’s intention, and how this intention is transferred into the target text by the translator journalists. The data consists of news headlines from an Indonesian online news site, translated from English language news from international news wires. Using…
Socio-pragmatic analysis of utterances with polite addressing terms
This study delves into cross-cultural translation, specifically utterances including politeness addressing markers in Arabic-English translation through a sociopragmatic lens. By employing a qualitative research design, the study thoroughly examines Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Midaq Alley’ using Spradley’s ethnographic analysis method, which encompasses domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, componential analysis, and cultural theme analysis. The findings of …
Intercultural communicative competence among Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia
Millions of Indonesian migrant workers have sought employment in Malaysia during the last three decades. Many of them are skilled and unskilled laborers, and their incorporation into the host society's labor market has the potential to improve their own quality of life while also contributing significantly to the country's economy. However, Indonesian migrant workers encounter numerous problems in their professional and personal lives. Therefore,…
Emoji and Text Combined
This research is motivated by the abundance of emoji usage in social media. However, the research that focuses on the status relation and the function of emoji in meaning construction in a text is rather limited. This paper examines the status relation of emoji and textual mode, and functions of emoji as used by two selected musicians in posting advertisement on Twitter. The data consists of combinations of emoji and textual element taken from Ka…
A pragmatic and discourse study of common deixis used by Yemeni-Arab preachers in friday Islamic sermons at Yemeni mosques
The usage of deixis in sermons, especially in Islam, has been understudied. This study investigated deixis in Friday sermons by Muslim preachers in Yemen using pragmatics and discourse analysis. The shape, purpose, feature, and frequency of the three main categories of deixis (personal, spatial, and temporal) were analyzed. The researcher translated 65 Yemeni-Arab sermons into English from offline and internet sources. Qualitative and quantitativ…
The simile and metaphor in translation of Yemeni spoken Arabic common names of animals and supernatural creatures into English
This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) and their translation into English. The study aims to identify the most effective English translations of these metaphors by sending a questionnaire to 43 native English speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language metaphors and similes (TL) and using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework to classify similes. The findings indicate that YA dialects us…
The Impact of Translation Techniques Toward Translation Quality of Javanese Swear Words in Subtitle Film Yowis Ben 2
The aims of this research are to identify translation techniques and translation quality of swear words in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. This qualitative descriptive research is an embedded-cased study and oriented to translation product. The source data of the research are Javanese swear word in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. The data were collected by document analysis and FGD (Focus Group Discussion)…
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Ludic Linguistics
Linguistic research on fictional constructed language (conlang) in video game dominantly employs an approach mimetically designed for fictions and films namely a priori and a posteriori. We argue that a priori and a posteriori are unable to comprehensively analyze the relationship between fictional conlangs with game elements. This research aims at constructing a new taxonomy on fictional conlang design approach that adheres specifically to video…
Translation Technique of Women Anger Speech Act in Television Series 13 Reasons Why Season 1
The study aimed to analyze the translation technique used in women's anger speech acts in a television series entitled 13 Reasons Why Season 1. This study was a descriptive qualitative research and an embedded case study. Analysis document and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were used to collect the data. The result shows the behaviour patterns of the translator using various translation techniques in all types of speech acts including direct verbal…
Register in Discussion Genre on Israel-Palestine Conflict Through Affect Evaluation
Purpose of the study: This data exploration is to seek the level and also the sort of unhappiness expression as a part of effect used in the news texts as a register included in discussion genre taken from 2 news texts of New York Times, 2 news texts of BBC, 1 news text of The Guardian 1, 1 news text of Bloomberg 1, 1 news text of USA Today and 1 news text of Fox News. Methodology: The data is explored with the appraisal theory by using domain an…
The Impact of Translation Techniques towards the Accuracy of Sarcasm Expression in Television Series the Big Bang Theory
This research aims at mapping out the translation techniques applied in translating sarcasm expressions and describing the impact of translation techniques toward the translation quality in terms of the accuracy aspect. This descriptive qualitative research used documents (i.e. subtitle of television series The Big Bang Theory and its translation in bahasa Indonesia) and informant (i.e. raters) as the data sources. To collect the data, the method…
Translating Ambivalent Sexist Attitudes toward Women in Pulau Buru Quartet
Indonesian classic literary works culturally represent ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women. Instead of campaign againts sexism in most of countries, the novelist directly or indirectly plays role in the case of spreading out sexism. The track record of Indonesian literary works in wide world literature exposes that Pulau Buru quartet written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer has obtained special attention by readers over the globe. It has been transl…
Criticism in the Javanese Arek Cultural Community
This article studies the speech act criticism and its function as a means of social control in the Javanese Arek Cultural Community (JACC) in East Java, Indonesia. Its goal is to understand how criticism is expressed in various contexts based on ±Power (±P), ± social Distance (±D), ±Public (±Pu), and to understand the criticism strategies appropriate for use in these contexts. The data was collected through Discourse Completion Tasks and intervie…
The Impact of Translation Technique on Translation Quality of Metaphor of Modality in Novel “Anne of Green Gables”
This study aims to identify the impact of translation techniques on translation quality in the novel “Anne of Green Gables.” It is a qualitative research-oriented translation study. The data were collected by content analysis and focus group discussion. The result of this research shows that there are seven translation techniques used to translate the metaphor of modality; they are established equivalence, modulation, deletion, paraphrase, compen…
An Investigation into the Translation Techniques Used in the Female Characters in the Comic of Pasutri Gaje
This study is aimed to identify the translation techniques used in the female characters of the comic of Pasutri Gaje which contain annoying speech. This research is embedded in a descriptive qualitative approach conducted and the purpose of the research is to identify the translation techniques used in translating sentences accomodating expression of annoyance in the conversations of female characters in the comic pasutri gaje. Data were collect…
Conjunction Shifts and their Impact on Translation Quality of Orwell’s Animal Farm
This study aims at identifying conjunction shifts and their impact on the translation quality of Orwell’s Animal Farm in accuracy and acceptability aspects. This descriptive qualitative research is an embedded-cased study and oriented to translation products. The data were collected by document analysis and focus group discussion and then analyzed by Spradley’s data analysis method. The results show that 207 data of conjunction shifts in terms of…
The Divergent of Ideational Metafunction Realizations in Novel Graphic Translation
This article is a translation product oriented study designed to investigate a systemic way of analyzing the divergent of Ideational metafunction realizations in novel graphic translation using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The objectives of this study are to identify divergent of ideational realizations in the translation and what cause them. The study is a descriptive qualitative with an embedded case study. The linguistics data of thi…
Modalitas Sebagai Peranti Sistem Appraisal Dalam Teks Iklan Kuliner Khas Semarang Di Media Internet
Persuasive power in the language of advertising can be reflected in the structure of words, phrases, or clauses in the contents of written or spoken advertisements. Most ad text uses verbal and nonverbal symbols to convey the intent and purpose. The use of language in advertising is adjusted to the needs and to achieve the purpose of the ad. Linguistic research specifically looking at appraisal devices in culinary text advertisements on the inter…
Sufi Healing and the Translation of Metafunction in Al-Hikam Aphorisms
Studies related to Sufi healing have focused on the theories used by Hakim abu-Abdullah Moinuddin al-Chishtiyya related to the power of unconditional love to work healing miracles. The aspects contained in his Book of Sufi Healing consequently become the starting point for the elaboration of the Al-Hikam aphorisms, the monumental work of Ibn Athaillah As-Sakandari. This study aimed to find common ground between Sufi healing and the Al-Hikam aphor…
The Reconstruction of the Image of Javanese as an Old Language Through an English Translation of Javanese Cultural Terms in Indonesian Novel ‘Gadis Kretek’
As on old language, Javanese has its uniqueness. The uniqueness of Javanese language is reflected through the use of speech level and the distinctive specification in addressing things and activities. Consequently, Javanese language is rich with vocabularies and it has many specific cultural terms in many aspects and activities. In Indonesian novel ‘Gadis Kretek’, many Javanese cultural terms are incorporated to depict and construct Javanese soci…
The Impact of Translation Techniques Toward Translation Quality of Javanese Swear Words in Subtitle Film Yowis Ben 2
The aims of this research are to identify translation techniques and translation quality of swear words in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. This qualitative descriptive research is an embedded-cased study and oriented to translation product. The source data of the research are Javanese swear word in subtitle film Yowis Ben 2. The data were collected by document analysis and FGD (Focus Group Discussion)…
The thematic system in the construction of Arabic Sufism communities and Islamic identity
This research aims to investigate the thematic system (theme and rheme) of Arabic texts, especially Arabic Sufi texts related to al-Hikam aphorisms. Thematic structure is defined as the set of options relating to ‘information structure’, the linguistic representation of extralinguistic experience and how a Sufi constructs an information structure in al-Hikam aphorisms. In this case, the extralinguistic experience is focused on the Arabic Sufi com…
The ideology behind the translation of an Islamic moral ethic book
This research investigated the ideology behind the translation of an Islamic moral ethic book, i.e. Al-Hikam, from Arabic into English. Such ideology can be examined through a textual equivalence analysis, which focuses on the cultural form and information structure. In this regard, one of the subjects of focus is themes (old information) and rhemes (new information). However, previous studies on the information structure in Islamic religious tex…
Emoji and Text Combined
This research is motivated by the abundance of emoji usage in social media. However, the research that focuses on the status relation and the function of emoji in meaning construction in a text is rather limited. This paper examines the status relation of emoji and textual mode, and functions of emoji as used by two selected musicians in posting advertisement on Twitter. The data consists of combinations of emoji and textual element taken from Ka…
A pragmatic and discourse study of common deixis used by Yemeni-Arab preachers in friday Islamic sermons at Yemeni mosques
The usage of deixis in sermons, especially in Islam, has been understudied. This study investigated deixis in Friday sermons by Muslim preachers in Yemen using pragmatics and discourse analysis. The shape, purpose, feature, and frequency of the three main categories of deixis (personal, spatial, and temporal) were analyzed. The researcher translated 65 Yemeni-Arab sermons into English from offline and internet sources. Qualitative and quantitativ…
The simile and metaphor in translation of Yemeni spoken Arabic common names of animals and supernatural creatures into English
This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) and their translation into English. The study aims to identify the most effective English translations of these metaphors by sending a questionnaire to 43 native English speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language metaphors and similes (TL) and using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework to classify similes. The findings indicate that YA dialects us…
Unveiling the Constructed Identity of Santris
This article aims at finding how santris living at modern pesantren construct their identities. The study is conducted at MBI AU a pesantren in Mojokerto, East Java with 156 respondents, 79 males and 77 females. The data are taken from their chats in WhatsApp groups for private contexts and from book communication and their public performance for public context. Interview is also conducted to support the data. The study reveals that at the macro …
Designing and assessing experiential learning pedagogy for an intercultural communicative competence training module
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is crucial for future workers in the global job market, where many feels unprepared to communicate effectively with culturally diverse colleagues. Therefore, university students must develop this skill to stay competitive. Experiential learning pedagogy, focused on ICC training, can enhance final-year students’ abilities, offering an alternative to traditional teaching methods. To examine the effective…
Preserving Face Threatening Acts in the English Translation of Bumi Manusia
This research aims to find the types of FTA contained in the English translation of the novel Bumi Manusia. Apart from that, this research also analyses translation techniques and the level of translation accuracy. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The research results state that there are two main types of FTA, namely Positive Face Threatening Acts (PFTA) and Negative Face Threatening Acts (NFTA). There is a predominance of PF…
Examining Social Actors in Investment Fraud News
This study examined media-framed investment fraud issues through critical discourse analysis (CDA) by Fairclough (1995). It analyzed the impact of context on text, employing van Dijk's (2009) theory of news discourse and van Leeuwen's (2008) framework for social actors (SAs) in investment fraud news, they were the affiliate (AF), the investor (IF), and the police (PL). Transitivity analysis (TA) was used to assess power relationships, while the a…
Exploring the Genre of International Online Communication to Map the Stages and Phases in the Participants’ Analytical Exposition Texts
In the current digital age, an online messaging platform called the International Virtual Exchange (IVE) Program is widely utilized in the English language learning process. The participants of the IVE Program are learners from non-native English-speaking countries with different cultural contexts, so they may have different realizations of genre structures. Most studies employing genre analysis only covered the genre stages without analyzing the…
Masculinity Unveiled
This study aims to identify the manifestations of masculinity portrayed by the main characters in the Twilight Saga novel series and to examine the appraisal system utilized to articulate masculinity and its subsequent translation. This research employed qualitative descriptive research. This research was oriented towards translation products. Data sources, including documents and informants, were selected through purposive sampling. The novels T…
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