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Naskah Dan Rekonstruksi Sejarah Lokal Islam; Contoh Kasus Dari Minangkabau, Oman Fathurahman

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Manuscripts are not supposed to be something unknown to the public and possessed by limited circle of people. Manuscripts are cultural heritage of a nation the content of which reflects the ideas, knowledge, tradition, and the patterns of behavior of the past society. As such they can be of use to different segments of society. This paper discusses the benefits of manuscripts to the efforts of reconstructing Islamic intellectual history in Indonesia by studying the case of local manuscripts in the Minang region. These manuscripts are not only the products of a writing tradition that had developed strongly in the …

Nusantara Dalam Era Niaga Sebelum Abad Ke-19, Mohammad Iskandar

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Trading activities in the Nusantara archipelago had developed into an international trade. According to Ricklef, Europe was not the most developed region in the world. The developing world at the time was in fact the Islamic world, stretching from the Middle East to the Nusantara. If we trace it further back into the past, to the pre-Islamic age, trade in the Nusantara region had developed, espcially during the golden eras of Sriwijaya and Majapahit. This paper describes the economic and trade development in the Nusantara before the 19th century.

A Comparison Of Beijing And Taiwan Mandarin Tone Register: An Acoustic Analysis Of Three Native Speech Styles, Richard Christen Torgerson

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the possibility of pitch and tone register differences between native speakers of Taiwan and Beijing Mandarin by means of an acoustic analysis of three speech styles. Speech styles included spontaneous interview, spontaneous descriptive, and controlled read sentential speech. Data analysis included long segments of recorded speech in order to discern any statistically significant pitch register differences between the two dialects. Speech style and read tones were also analyzed. Results suggest that tones produced in Taiwan Mandarin are in a slightly lower register than those produced in Beijing Mandarin. Surprisingly, speech style was not a significant predictor of …

The Effect Of A Study Abroad On Acquiring Pragmatics, Johanna Katherine Brown

Theses and Dissertations

Pragmatics in Arabic needs to be studied for two main reasons: first, the large cultural difference between American and Middle Eastern society; and second, the recent surge in demand for Arabic speakers in the US. Especially in regard to refusals, what is acceptable in America is rarely acceptable in Arabic speaking countries. There are very few occasions when refusal of an offering of food or other hospitalities is acceptable. Arab culture requires one to provide family members with anything they need, including money. If that is not possible it is required to find the means for what they need. American …

Teacher Training Via Digital Apprenticeship To Master Teachers Of Arabic: Exposure, Reflection, And Replication As Instruments For Change In Novice Instructor Teaching Style, Jeremy L. Palmer

Theses and Dissertations

The Modern Language Association (MLA) recently reported that from 1998 to 2002 there was a 92% increase in Arabic programs throughout the United States. With the increase in media coverage of current events in the Middle East, more and more students are desiring to learn about the region's languages and cultures. More teachers of Arabic are needed to meet this growing demand for Arabic instruction. This thesis investigates whether deliberate intervention via explicit and implicit exposure to the instructional behavior, skills, and strategies of master teachers of Arabic, combined with replication thereof, as well as critical personal reflection, positively alters …

Arabic-Yoruba Morpho-Syntax, Tajudeen Yusuf

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Teaching/Learning Centers: Professional Development For Teachers Of Linguistically And Culturally Diverse Students, Holbrook Mahn, Dee Mcmann, Sandra I. Musanti

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This article describes an innovative professional development model that uses on-site Teaching/Learning Centers in which teachers work and collaborate with other teachers to learn about effective methods of literacy instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse students. This model fosters collaborative, sustained, on-site, and practical development in which teachers plan, model, observe, discuss, and reflect together as they transform their practice.

Acquisition Of Violations Of English Principle B By Native Speakers Of Japanese Or Chinese, Clarion C. Mendes

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This work focuses on Principles A and B of Binding Theory as applied to English. While English has a very strict interpretation of Binding Theory, it has a violation of Principle B with sentences with locative prepositional phrases and verb phrases of caused movement or perception.

In contrast, Chinese and Japanese have a very liberal interpretation of Binding Theory. The study is involved with investigating whether or not Japanese or Chinese speakers adapt to the English violation which is typically not taught in a classroom setting, but something acquired through natural exposure.

A custom survey was designed to see if …

Tawaran Hermeneutika Untuk Menafsirkan Alquran, Ali Akbar

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Hermeneutics is a word that becomes popular lately especially among postmodernist people. Since the definition and the scope become broader, many groups of people can use hermeneutics nowadays. One of the application of hermeneutics is the interpretation of Al-Qur'an, the Moslems' holy bible. It is known that Moslems has their own way in interpreting their bible, with Tafsir. The focus of this paper is to convey the similarity and the difference between hermeneutics and Tafsir, and also the Moslems' opinion toward the interpreter who use hermeneutics as the frame of his interpretation.

Ideals Without Heat Indonesia Raya And The Struggle For Independence In Malaya, 1920-1948, Byungkuk Soh

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Kajian ini ditujukan untuk menemukan pemahaman perkembangan kesadaran nasional bangsa Melayu dalam mencapai kemerdekaan bangsa Melayu. Di dalamnya dikaji muncul dan berkembangnya kelompok-kelompok intelektual baru Melayu yang memiliki daya desak di balik perkembangan pergerakan kemerdekaan Melayu. Tahun 1920-an dianggap sebagai awal perkembangan kesadaran nasional bangsa Melayu. Dalam periode itu kelompok sosial baru, yaitu kaum agamawan terdidik, intelektual terdidik Melayu, dan intelektual terdidik Inggris, muncul di luar hierarki Melayu tradisional dan mulai menampilkan cita-cita sosiopolitis yang berdampak besar pada pembentukan bangsa Malaya, yang kemudian menjadi Malaysia, hingga bergerak terus ke tahun 1948.

Hubungan Intertekstualitas Di Antara Novel-Novel Mochtar Lubis, Kim Jang Gyem

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Mochtar Lubis merupakan tokoh yang selalu gigih memperjuangkan kebenaran, keadilan, kebebasan berpendapat, dan nasib rakyat. Hal itu terlihat dari berbagai aktivitasnya sebagai sastrawan dan wartawan. Dalam setiap karya sastranya, Mochtar Lubis seolah-olah menyatakan dengan jelas pemikirannya. Dengan mengamati hubungan antarteks (intertekstualitas) di dalam karya-karya Mochtar Lubis, dapat dijalin benang merah mengenai persoalan yang selalu didengungkan oleh sastrawan itu dari satu karya ke karya yang lain, seperti ketakutan manusia dan dekadensi moral manusia.

Iklan Lampau Indonesia Dalam Wujud Komik Analisis Bahasa Dan Grafis, Zeffry Alkatiri

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

As a powerful medium to persuade people to buy a product or service, ads have long been used in many forms. This study attempts to understand the language use and graphic design of comic as one of the ads forms in Jakarta-based Indonesian media, particularly in the period of 1940-1960s. By employing different approaches in Linguistic Anthropology, Mass Communication and Graphic Design, the findings show a close relationship between the language and the graphic design of the ads with the society who consumed them as well as a trend towards informal language use and popular culture.

Partikel Fatis Dalam Bahasa Mandarin; Sebuah Telaah Awal, Hermina Sutami

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Phatic particles are rarely discussed, especially in the scope of syntax, even though the notion of phatic communion had been proposed by Malinowski in 1923. In Indonesian language, Harimurti (1986) had pioneered the inclusion of phatic expression into the Indonesian parts of speech. In Mandarin language, there has not been any special interest to discuss it. Generally phatic particles overlap with interjections and interrogatives. However, this article discusses about some evidences about the differences among them.

Islam, The Indonesian State, And Identity The Ideas Of Nurcholis Madjid And Abdurrahman Wahid, Muhammad Fuad

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Makalah ini membahas gagasan-gagasan Nurcholis Madjid dan Abdurrahman Wahid tentang hubungan antara Islam dan negara dan antara Islam dan bangsa dan implikasinya pada konsep tentang identitas Muslim di Indonesia. Madjid berpendapat bahwa umat Islam pernah berhasil mengembangkan masyarakat yang demokratis pada masa Madinah dan Andalusia di masa lampau. Dia mengajak umat Islam Indonesia untuk menggunakan keberhasilan ini sebagai model untuk membangun demokrasi di Indonesia sekarang. Sementara itu, Wahid menelusuri sejarah Indonesia untuk mencari model tersebut dan mencoba menerapkannya pada situasi Indonesia sekarang. Implikasi dari dua orientasi yang berbeda ini adalah bahwa model Madjid mengesankan identitas Muslim yang lebih menekankan keislaman …

Iwu Brings In The Chinese New Year, Leslie Boelter

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Continental Philosophy In Britain And America, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Continental, or as it is sometimes called, contemporary European philosophy represents a range of approaches to academic philosophy distinguished from the analytic modality dominating professional or institutional philosophy in the United Kingdom and in the United States, as in Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Where the analytic tradition itself may be said to trace its own roots to Europe, e.g., positivism may be traced to France and its originator August Comte, and logical empiricism to Germany and to Austria and the writings of Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein and the members of the Vienna Circle, continental philosophy expresses an ideological tradition …

'Listen, Rama’S Wife!’: Maithil Women’S Perspectives And Practices In The Festival Of Sāmā-Cakevā, Coralynn V. Davis

Faculty Journal Articles

As a female-only festival in a significantly gender-segregated society, sāmā cakevā provides a window into Maithil women’s understandings of their society and the sacred, cultural subjectivities, moral frameworks, and projects of self-construction. The festival reminds us that to read male-female relations under patriarchal social formations as a dichotomy between the empowered and the disempowered ignores the porous boundaries between the two in which negotiations and tradeoffs create a symbiotic reliance. Specifically, the festival names two oppositional camps—the male world of law and the female world of relationships—and then creates a male character, the brother, who moves between the two, loyal …

History Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Undergraduate's Companion To Arab Writers And Their Web Sites, Barbara J. Strauss

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

The article reviews the book "The Undergraduate's Companion to Arab Writers and Their Web Sites," by Dona S. Straley.

Tuning In (Or Out) The Big Voice Of Arundhati Roy Following The God Of Small Things, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

Arundhati Roy made a great splash in 1997 with publication of The God of Small Things, receiving the Brooker Prize for her first and to date only novel and thereby stepping suddenly and quite flamboyantly into the spotlight of international literary notoriety. Not surprisingly, most who have read her highly acclaimed novel have waited for another novel to follow in its wake. After nine years, a second novel has not yet followed. Roy has said she will write another novel when and if she feels ready and has a story that needs to be told, but some impatience among …

Can China Import Western Ideas?, Fang Deng

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Memahami "Cultural Studies" Dan Multikulturalisme Dari Perspektif Pascamodern, Akhyar Yusuf Lubis

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Cultural studies is a study of culture, the paradigm of which is quite different from that of the conventional (i.e. modern) studies. If we accept this view, it means that the whole problem of cultural reality, epistemology, and methodology cannot be used to understand and investigate cultural studies and multiculturalism. The infeasibility of using conventional study of culture to apprehend cultural studies and multiculturalism is related with the principle of incommensurability between those two fields, so there are different worldviews and rules (language games) between the two. This difference is vividly showed in character and model of study that conceives …

Homoseksualitas Dalam Lagu-Lagu Prancis, Joesana Tjahjani

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Sexual revolution in France in the decade of the 1970s is characterized by social openness toward sex. There is a change in the pattern of spousal living, including same-sex relation. Homosexuals in France have the courage to declare their sexual orientation. Despite pros and cons within the French society, PACS or the solidarity civil pact, since 1999, allowed homosexual pairs to formalize their commitment outside marriage. French songs with homosexual themes began to appear in the decade of the 1960s. Since then, around 90 songs foreground homosexuality through various themes and perspectives. In the first reading, the lyrics only foreground …

Ide Kebangsaan Dalam Puisi Antara Sajak-Sajak M. Yamin Dan Sejumlah Sajak Karya Penyair Malaysia, Sunu Wasono

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

show that Indonesian and Malaysian literatures grew and developed out of the same old tradition, namely Malay tradition. Indonesian and Malaysian languages are also rooted in the same language, namely, the Malay language. It only makes sense that there a number of similarities This paper discusses the nationalist ideas found in the poems of M. Yamin published in Indonesia Tumpah Darahku and a number of poems produced by 10 Malaysian poets. These Malaysians' poems are found in a poetry anthology titled Puisi-puisi Kebangsaan 1913-1957 (nationalist poems 1913-1957) compiled by Abdul Latif Abu Bakar and published in 1987. Based on a …

Perkembangan Lobi Yahudi Dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Politik Luar Negeri Dan Kongres Amerika Serikat, Agus Setiawan

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

United States' foreign policy has been extremely influenced by some determinant factors both personal and institutional. However, by the end of World War II, an institution known as interest group, played important role relatively to the determination of United States' foreign policies, particularly those which were related to Middle East conflict. A Jewish lobby known as AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) has been the most powerful interest group to influence the United States' foreign policy especially after President Truman's administration. This article describes the internal development of AIPAC and some AIPAC's actions in order to get public supports to …

Pencarian Dasar-Dasar Filosofis Bagi Keberadaan Filsafat Nusantara, Ganang Dwi Kartika

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The meaning of philosophy in Indonesian has become an interesting topics, especially when it is related to another concept, culture. Some Indonesian dictionary writers defined "filsafat" (philosophy) in many ways from different aspects. However, the definitions have not reflected the meaning accuracy, both from the linguistic pattern aspect and from its terminology. Besides that, the definitions, which come from Western, invite another question. If there is Western philosophy, then what about Eastern philosophy, especially Nusantara philosophy? That question is also discussed in this writing.

Beyond Currywurst And Döner: The Role Of Food In German Multicultural Literature And Society, Heike Henderson

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

After outlining some striking similarities between ethnic food marketing and multicultural literature, I intend to analyze the role of food in contemporary German literature and society. Specifically, I will look at two texts by Rafik Schami ("Kebab ist Kultur") and Uwe Timm (Die Entdeckung der Currywurst). In both of these texts, food plays a crucial role. In "Kebab ist Kultur," food is a marker of difference and alterity. In Die Entdeckung der Currywurst, food is the impetus to trace history - personal history as well as the history of postwar Germany. Questions related to cultural differences, history, and …

Translation Of “La Niña De Guatemala” In "Francisco Goldman Interview By Esther Allen", Anne Fountain

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Kisah Cinta "Smaradahana", Nanny Sri Lestari

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Kakawin Smaradahana is one of the most famaus literature in old Java. Untill these time Kakawin Smaradahana for Javanese people still give a great inspiration to write, so there is always a transformation from time to time. This short article shows how the manuscript transforms from time to time.

Pembantaian Etnis Cina Di Batavia 1740 Dampak Konflik Golongan "Prinsgezinden" Dan "Staatsgezinden" Di Belanda?, Lilie Suratminto

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

From 9th to 10th of October 1740 the riot occurred in Batavia, which was followed by a terrible massacre of the Chinese ethnic. More than 10.000 Chinese were killed. This was the black page of the East Indies Companies history in Batavia. This paper revealed the background of the actors who had played an important role in the tragedy in Batavia in 1740. They were two nobleses groups that influenced the policy of the Republic of the Netherlands, namely the Orangi n (the people who agreed Orange family as their leader and the head of state) or the Prinsgezinden and …