Jambi is a province in Indonesia which is divided into eleven regencies and and municipalities. One of the regencies is Bungo whose capital is Muara Bungo. Muara Bungo community uses Jambi Malay language to interact one other. This study discusses about the situational referents of swear words in Jambi Malay language. The background of the research was the habits of Muara Bungo community in using swear words to express anger, disappointment, resentment, hatred, etc. The purpose of this study is to identify, describe, and explain the situational referents of the swear words in Jambi Malay language. The data were collected by means of listening, interview, recording and note taking techniques. They were analyzed by means of distributional and identity methods. The results of the analysis of this qualitative research were presented in an informal descriptive form. They show that the situational referents of the swear words in Jambi Malay language are different from other regional languages in terms of form, naming, and function of swear words. AbstrakJambi merupakan salah satu provinsi yang ada di Indonesia. Jambi memiliki 11 kabupaten, salah satunya adalah Muara Bungo. Masyarakat Muara Bungo menggunakan bahasa Melayu Jambi untuk berinterakasi satu sama lain. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi kebiasaan masyarakat Muara Bungo menggunakan makian pada saat mengekspresikan rasa marah, kesal, kecewa, benci, dan lain-lainnya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi, menggambarkan, dan menjelaskan makian yang mengandung referen keadaan dalam bahasa Melayu Jambi. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik simak dan teknik wawancara. Penelitian ini juga menggunakan teknik rekam dan catat. Teknik analisis data menggunakan metode padan dan agih. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil analisis disajikan dalam bentuk deskriptif informal. Penemuan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa makian referen keadaan dalam bahasa Melayu Jambi memiliki perbedaan dengan bahasa lainnya, yaitu dari segi bentuk, penamaan, fungsi makian.

This research was aimed to reveal and explain the violations conducted by Google to its user privacy which is implied through its Privacy Policy Agreement statement by analyzing it with Theme and Rheme proposed by Halliday. This qualitative research was done by applying the documentation recording method in collecting data and the Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics as the basic theory. The result of the data was presented in the table analysis and in the form of descriptive interpretation. The result showed that Google build its clauses with the 4 types of theme construction. From the analyzed clauses, the dominantly built clause is the single constituent with marked theme where “We” is the mostly occurred subject. Yet, Google applied unmarked theme mosty in their clauses. With this dominant occurences of “We”, Google construe its existence as the authority holders of the w hole agreement. The researchers found that similar finite predicator appeared repeatedly such “collect” and “use” in building its clauses. These constitute Google’s strategy in order to force the user’s permission to let Google freely access their privacy. In addition, the operation of the conjunction “and”, extention, expansion and exemplificatory constituents represent the plentiful request of Google related to its user’s information. Those summarized the violation conducted by Google to its user’s privacy.

Language and ecology have the reciprocal relationship in Ecolinguistics perspective.One of the relationship is formed through the metaphorical expressionscontaining 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.