Oktavianus Oktavianus

• Professor
• Professor at Andalas University

The capitalist ideology has been critiqued in various disciplines, including literature, especially when executed by tyrant governments or influential individuals. This article examines how modern discourse, such as the novel Normal People by Sally Rooney, represents issues of capitalism in Ireland, which impact the rights of its people and their a...

This research aims to explore the role of Rumah Puisi Taufiq Ismail in Indonesia’s literary tourism development and how people perceive it. The main focus is to study how Taufiq Ismail’s persona is presented in his poetry house. This research collected data through direct observations, interviews, and surveys using literary tourism-related concepts...

The article aims to identify the research gap by qualitatively analyzing request speech acts in the Minangkabau language. This study uses a qualitative approach to investigate ‘naturally happening talks data’, which refers to real-life conversations and interactions from Minangkabau speakers to identify the linguistic strategies used in pre-request...

Culture is something essential and a marker of the identity of an ethnic group. Therefore, culture must always be part of human life. However, due to various factors, the culture of a tribe is often neglected and which lead to cultural disasters. In this regard, this study examined cultural disaster in Minangkabau. The study used a qualitative and...

Educators, researchers, and scientists from various fields, including literary critics, are striving to address the impacts of climate change and disasters on human beings, as depicted in Emile Zola's work "The Flood," which illustrates human vulnerability amidst natural disasters. This research aims to explore the use of flood imagery by Emile Zol...

This study is investigating the linguistic features of sports commentary. The focus is the politeness techniques using and gender-specific language variations observed in 2022 FIFA World Cup. This study used qualitative approach. This study was examining the collection of real-time commentary from various matches in 2022 World Cup. The analysis of...

Upaya sosialisasi sejarah Indonesia kepada siswa-siswi Sekolah Dasar di Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan, Sumatra Barat ini bertujuan untuk memperkenalkan sejarah Indonesia kepada siswa-siswi daerah ini, mulai dari masa penjajahan hingga masa kemerdekaan Indonesia untuk meningkatkan pemahaman mereka akan perkembangan bangsa Indonesia. Metode pelaksanaan k...

Persuasive languages have advantages and strengths in influencing the public to achieve goals. Therefore, people use persuasive language widely in various communication events. In this regard, this study attempts to research the strategic role of persuasive language used by politicians in the City of Padang who are running to become members of the...

Metafora dan nilai budaya ialah dua perkara yang saling berkaitan. Nilai budaya ialah bahagian daripada identiti manusia. Salah satu cara untuk menyatakannya ialah melalui metafora. Sehubungan itu, kajian ini bertujuan menganalisis metafora leksikal berhubung dengan nilai budaya dalam novel Di Bawah Lindungan Ka’bah karya Hamka. Kajian ini mengguna...

This study investigates the toponymy of the Indonesian Islands. The researchers collect data by tracing documents containing islands' names from colonial to modern times. The data are taken from written sources containing the names of the Indonesian islands. The study applies a historical and linguistic approach. The research results indicate that...

Many factors determine the quality and sustainability of agricultural products. In addition to soil fertility, seed, climate, and use of technology, cultural values are significant and decisive. This research aims to study agricultural productions and farming cultures reflected in Minangkabau metaphorical expressions. The study is conducted qualita...

This study aims to research Minangkabau language as an ethnic identity in this digital era. The researcher did the study in five areas in West Sumatra. It is a qualitative study in which all language phenomena contributing to the validity of findings are considered. Data are collected through participative and nonparticipative observations. The dat...

This article discusses the change in the Minangkabau political orientation from the Dutch colonial era to the present. They pose the Minangkabau language as a political issue in the national interaction. This paper is on how Minangkabau people view their mother tongue as a part of national identity, how they make it as the ammunition for the moveme...

Pelatihan pembuatan bioetanol dari limbah kulit pisang dilakukan untuk membantu masyarakat dalam memanfaatkan limbah rumah tangga. Ini dilakukan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat akan bahan bakar alternatif. Masyarakat di berbagai tempat mengolah pisang menjadi aneka jenis makanan. Namun kulit pisang mereka buang sebagai limbah. Kegiatan ini meru...

Many studies have been carried out on religious narratives that go hand in hand with the Covid-19 pandemic, but only focus on religious authority, religious attitudes and behavior, and the contributions of religious leaders. In fact, the religious dimension in the Covid-19 hoax circle is a form of social practice that contains a dialectical process...

The Minangkabau tribe in West Sumatra is rich in local foods developed from the raw materials derived from various flora and fauna found in Minangkabau. The existence of Rumah Makan Minang, which can also be called Rumah Makan Padang spread throughout Indonesia and even abroad is the reflection of the wealth of various local Minangkabau foods. The...

Public spaces are the sphere where people meet each other for many purposes, activities, and interests. Public spaces are decorated with languages with various designs and motives to guide and give information to people in public spaces. Language is displayed in public spaces as the name and labels of shops, restaurants, offices, buildings, streets...

This research is an attempt to study gairaigo in Japanese. The study is focused on the formation, meaning, and cultural implication of gairaigo. The data for this study are Japanese loan words borrowed from English taken from NHK Easy Japanese News from May 2021 to October 2021. The research used qualitative and quantitative approaches. The data ar...

Nagari Andaleh sebuah nagari di Kecamatan Batipuh, Kabupaten Tanah Datar Provinsi Sumatera Barat. Nagari ini kaya dengan potensi sumber daya alam dan sumber daya manusia. Saat ini nagari ini menjadi salah satu destinasi wisata di Kabupaten Tanah Datar. Permasalahan yang dihadapi nagari adalah masalah branding dan positioning destinasi wisata. Tujua...

Da'wah is one of the most appropriate means of broadcasting religion to its adherents both monologically and in dialogue. Minangkabau cultural leader is one who is considered as a preacher for the Minangkabau community because of his role as 'mamak' providing protection for nephews and his people are considered to have verbal competence and cogniti...

Humor can be regarded as one of the unique ways of communicating ideas and delivering messages. It can be easily found in the daily use of language in various contexts and situations. This short writing is an attempt to analyze humor to find the systems or patterns of humor of human language. The data for this study are taken from some collections...

Tulisan ini merupakan suatu upaya untuk mengkaji bentangan bahasa tulis di ruang publik dalam upaya pencegahan virus korona. Ruang publik adalah temat-tempat di mana anggota masyarakat berkumpul bersama, berinteraksi, dan berkomunikasi seperti di sekolah, tempat ibadah, pasar, jalan-jalan umum, rumah sakit, bandar udara, dan di kenderaan-kendaraan...

This study aims to describe the role and usefulness of communication and information technology in the inheritance of local wisdom values of Minangkabau culture in the speech of the Minangkabau cultural leader in the context of the "Pitaruah Ayah" Monologue Speech. The role of information technology in the field of socio�culture has a positive cont...

p>Swearing is deemed as improper to use in certain settings. However, it can be used to convey positive emotions too, including complimenting something or someone. This research article aims to investigate the linguistic forms, pragmatic meanings, and pragmatic functions of family-theme swearing used in compliments on Twitter. Kreidler (2002), Raml...

Salah satu aspek yang unik terkait dengan Rumah Makan Minang di Indonesia adalah nilai budaya yang terkandung pada nama, label dan simbol yang digunakan. Cara pengungkapan nilai budaya melalui aneka desain nama, label dan simbol disebut dengan lanskap linguistik nilai budaya. Penelitian ini merupakan suatu upaya untuk menelaah nilai budaya pada Rum...

Language and ecology have a reciprocal relationship in Ecolinguistics perspective. One of the relationships is formed through the metaphorical expression containing the names of fauna(animal metaphors). This study described the animal metaphors found in Iwan Fals’ Social Critics and Humanity songs that very famous among Indonesian community. Throug...

The paper explores the forms of language being used in the public signs around the tourist objects in Samosir regency, North Sumatera. Investigating forms of language in public sphere is a relatively new approach in applied linguistic and the branch of linguistics studying such forms is called Landscape Linguistic (or sometimes called Linguistic La...

This research aims to identify the language used by children from Nias ethnic families in Banuaran as well as the reason for using the language. The writers wanted to know what language is used and the possible use of other languages and code-mixing performed by these children in various situations, including athome, in the community of Nias, and i...

The aims of this article were to find the tendency of yellow journalism headline which often appears and to reveal the function of language in yellow journalismheadline. The data sources in this research were taken from English printed magazines and newspapers which were indicated as yellow journalism product.This research was a descriptive qualita...

Abstrak Semangat Profesionalisme dalam Peribahasa Minagkabau. Semangat profesionalisme sangat penting dalam kehidupan manusia. Semangat profesionalisme itu dapat ditransfer menjadi bagian dari sikap, perilaku, tindakan dan kebiasaan seseorang dalam melakukan sesuatu. Nilai-nilai yang mendorong munculnya semangat profesionalisme dalam bentuk sikap,...

This short article is an attempt to identify and discuss the types of language that can shape the identity and character of the nation. The analysis is done by looking at the relationship between language and culture. The result of the analysis indicates that language, both proverbs and nonproverbs, contains values. The values are transferred into...

This writing tries to see how the language reflects the speakers’ arttitude, perception, and belief in relation to the norms in their daily life. The data are taken from Minangkabau and English language. The reason to choose these different languages as the object of the study is to show how the languages from the different family represent the con...