Thursday, February 12, 2009

Reading 3.4 speech and speakers.

In linguistics process in sociocultural practice. The presentation was done by Ullyana and Syifaq. The writer tell us that the article able to makes us believe in what the article producer believe in. this is called positioning. In the article, the writer include example to “positioning” such as Ms Seductress and Miss Winner. The writer positioning women according to their achievements or their behaviour. We are also applying positioning in our culture. For instance, someone who is keen on day dreaming tend to be called as “Mat Jenin”. Mat Jenin is a symbol of a man who is love to day dreaming, and lazy. This is how Malay people positioning the lazy people. However, Ullyana and Syifaq has done a good presentation. In the article, the writer positioned Ms Winner is constructes in sexist discourse. a series of negative give the definition of herpositiion and defines.

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