In their development, the languages referred to as Bahasa Indonesia (or BI, for short) and New Javanese (or NJ, for short) have absorbed a quantity of lexicon from Sanskrit. Much of the same lexicon has been absorbed from Sanskrit into BI and NJ. Granted that BI and NJ influence each other, perhaps BI has absorbed the Sanskrit lexicon from NJ or vice versa. However, referring to historical aspe…
Manuscripts of Javanese literary texts with a Christian nuance are difficult to obtain. Compared with the development of the Hindu, Buddhism, and Moslem traditions in Javanese literary culture, that of the Christian tradition is still relatively new. Only a few Javanese literary texts with a Christian nuance are assumed to be currently in existence. The writer has in hand a manuscript containin…
This article is about a study conducted to describe the Layang Mursada Pesisiran, one of the classical texts resulting from the development of coastal literary work. Layang Mursada Pesisiran, the subject of the study, was written (or, rather, copied from the original) in 1879 and published by Badan Pekerja Kongres Bahasa Jawa, a working body for a congress on the Javanese language. The manuscri…
Though the French avant garde poet Apollinaire is no longer alive, his masterpieces remain timeless and his influence on the world of literature and art are greatly felt. The way typographical poetry, which is a kind of visual poetry or calligram, is presented is extremely interesting and this article intends to describe the relation between the meaning of the words in the calligram and its pic…
This article is concerned with a heated controversy about the Crayon Synchan comic serial and aims at producing an alternative reading view using a postmodern perspective. Situating the text concerned in the discourse of postmodernism, referring especially to its view on the fall of grand narratives, the use of parody and intertextuality, the way it posits readers, the aestheticization of ordin…
Retorika merupakan tindak komunikasi yang dilakukan dengan menggunakan bahasa. Karena pemakaian bahasa bergantung pada konteks sosial, retorika juga terkait dengan beberapa unsur seperti penutur, saluran, khalayak (audience), pesan yang disampaikan, konteks budaya, materi yang disampikan, dan sebagainya. Makalah ini mendeskripsi retorika dan faktor yang terkait dengan retorika dalam konteks kom…