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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), Ramlan (2005), and Ljung (2011)’s opinions were utilized in this research. Observational method was used to collect the data. Distributional and identity method were used to analyze the data. The results of this study demonstrate that: (1) linguistic forms of family-theme swearing are word and phrase, (2) the pragmatic meaning of the family-theme swearing is as utterance meaning, and (3) the pragmatic functions of the family-theme swearing are as Adjectival Intensifier and Anaphoric Use of Epithets. This research is hopefully able to assist EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students to communicate in English better with other English speakers on Twitter.

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 contribution as a mediation of the existence of Minangkabau cultural leaders to their people in carrying out their functions from this speech can be heard globally by the Minang generation. This study used the illocutionary speech act theory presented by Searle and the values of local wisdom by Octavian. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with the ethnographic approach. The data were taken in the form of recorded speech used by Minangkabau cultural leaders in the form of data transcription and strengthened by in-depth. The findings of this study are (1) The role of information communication technology in maintaining and inheriting local wisdom of Minangkabau culture (2 ) Speech actions used by Minangkabau cultural leaders in the form of assertive, directive and declarative (3) The power of the language delivered has a function as informative, supervise, directive persuasive and non-dominative or egalitarian. (4) The local wisdom values of Minangakabau culture passed on to the Minang generation are the values of religiosity.

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. Through Ecolinguistics study, the writer tried to find out how animal as a part of ecosystem can be used to describe human life especially their social and political life through metaphorical frames. This is a descriptive-qualitative research that is conducted by using Ecolinguistics parameters consists of interrelationship, diversity and environment parameters to analyze the interactions between language and ecology. The result of analysis showed that the metaphorical expression formulated and generated from the characteristic of the nature of fauna (animal metaphors) that found in Indonesian environment. The nature used as a source domain was mapped to a target domain referred to human beings with their activities forming a new understanding and enrich vocabulary. The connection between the two domains was recorded in cognitive of the language users at the ideological dimension which is then understood by society at the sociological dimension. The whole meaning formed a strong relationship between language and environment.

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 attitude, behavior and habit to shape the identity and character of the nation.