WHERE IS GOD?

When the Russian astronauts were first in space, they mockingly said, “Look! There is no God here”. Indeed, those who believed in God have never said that God is in space.

Christians, for example, believe that God is in Heaven; other believers may have different opinions as to where God is. But one thing they have in common is that God exists in this universe. A Moslem philosopher illustrates the existence of  Allah  in this universe as the existence of soul in our body. We do not know for sure in which part of the body the soul is--- in the head, chest, or limbs? But we know that those parts are living --- they move and develop – we can feel it. The soul is there, everywhere in our body.

It is quite similar to the existence of  Allah  in this universe. Everywhere we can see His creations – on green land, in the blue sky, even in the blackest deep on the oceans or in the centre of the earth. Allah is only one, but He is there, everywhere in this world; there is nothing resemble Him. Allah is very close to those who have faith in their hearts.

Mengatur Ukuran Kertas di Microsoft Word

Sebelum membuat dokumen baik naskah maupun karya tulis lainnya di Microsoft Word, hal yang sebaiknya lebih dahulu dikerjakan adalah mengatur ukuran kertas yang akan dipergunakan, mengatur margin serta orientasi kertas.

Biasanya secara default, ukuran kertas berada pada ukuran kertas A4, sementara di Indonesia jenis kertas yang biasa beredar adalah A4 (Quarto) dan F4 (Folio). 

Ukuran kertas yang juga biasa dipergunakan adalah:
A4 : 21 cm x 29,7 cm
Letter : 21,59 cm x 27, 94 cm 
F4 : 21,5 cm x 33 cm (iki folio yaaaa)
Legal : 21,59 cm x 35,56 cm



reference and inference ppt download



this is the last material of my pragmatics lecture.click here for free download abiieZ:
reference and inference george yule
the other downloadable materials of pragamtics can be seen at this linkz: all-my-pragmatics-downloadable-materials

A CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS ON OSCAR WILDE’S HAPPY PRINCE

A CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE  ANALYSIS
ON OSCAR WILDE’S HAPPY PRINCE
Faizal Risdianto, S.S,M.Hum
STAIN SALATIGA

Abstract
The title of this paper is a conversational implicature analysis on Oscar  Wilde’s Happy Prince. In this paper, the writer discusses conversational implicature in one of Oscar Wilde’s short story entitled Happy Prince. The objectives of the study are to identify the implicature utterances uttered by the characters in Oscar Wilde’s Happy Prince and  to describe the implied meaning uttered by the characters in Oscar Wilde’s Happy Prince.

History of Pragmatics / Origin of Pragmatics

A Brief Introduction to Pragmatics

Written by 刘吉林,语言学2005研究生

(1) What is Pragmatics

As it is known to most of us,. Pragmatics is one branch of general linguistics, which also includes phonetics, phonology, morphology and semantics. But when we talk about pragmatics, we may ask what it is. So we should define it, and there are a lot of philosopher and linguists who have given their respective ideas about it. Such as Charles Morris’s famous definition of pragmatics as “the study of the relation of signs to interpreters-”, Levinson’s consideration of pragmatics as being “the study of those relations between language and context that is gammaticalized, or encoded in the structure of a language.”, and Mey’s definition as “Pragmatics studies the use of language in human communication as determined by the conditions of society.”. But I prefer a definition given by a Chinese professor Ran Yongping, who expressed his idea in the book A Survey of Pragmatics :”Pragmatics is a discipline not only concerning the sense, but also concerning the derivation of sense and the understanding of underlying meaning as its objects. It aims to decipher the negotiation and derivation of meaning in communication. So pragmatics studies, aiming at the derivation of sense during intercommunication, are by-directional dynamic studies.” (语用学不单纯是关于意义的一门学科,而是以意义的产生和对潜在意义的理解作为研究对象,从而揭示交际中人们是如何进行磋商、产生意义的,也即语用学研究是相互应对中的意义为对象的双向动态研究) 冉永平,1998。Professor Ran put emphasis on dynamic studies, which develops from the idea of British scholar Thomas, the founder of dynamic pragmatics, who argued that the studies of pragmatics should aim at interactive sense. Language is alive not dead, and it is for using, so only the dynamic studies are significant.

(2) History of Pragmatics / Origin of Pragmatics

A story about "Krambil" (old coconut)

(When I was young in the year of 2000 , saiki wis old man :)

One day in madukawan, Pamekasan, madura, I met some pakistani men who were joyfully eating "Krambil" (old coconut).
They looked so happy in eating it.For Your info, In Pakistan "Krambil"and  "Pepaya" are belong to rare expensive fruits.
I ever met one pakistani man who said "Brother faishol, I think you're not my brother". I said to him, "How can it be? I'm your brother in Islam". then again he replied, :"yesterday you have promised that you will buy me pepaya but you forget about it". ( ya Allah Gusti cuma pengen makan kates/pepaya wae bilang YOU'RE NOT MY BROTHER. Benar2 pengalaman paling kadir, kirun dan rustam (maaf kalo ada nama rustam disini :)

ok .back to the topic of A story about KRAMBIL
I met then under the tree eating krambil with euphoria and great enthusiasm.
one of them said to me, "challo (come on) Brother Faishol, let's eat this fresh old coconut.
this is very delicious.in pakistan if we have this one we will eat with all the members of the family, cut this into some slices/pieces and happily eating our part.
this is a precicious and fresh fruit".
I just smiled coz I could not imagine eating that fruit treated as if it was similar to the joy of eating "yummy" washington apple or "the luxurious" durian .
I said to him, "No, brother :). in my place that's one of the ingredients for cooking". this will make me KREMINEN (cacingan :).
then he asked me curiously,"What's KREMINEN"
I smiled again, "Nothing. Kreminen means "bohot acha=good :)

list of Sophisticated Words

Hi, guys! It's me again! First, CMIIW 

Is it really important to learn about "Sophisticated Words?"

In my opinion, when we are in informal situations in our daily life it's not really necessary to learn sophisticated words. Because, how often we use them in informal situations? The most common answer is as we all know : SELDOM.

But, when it comes to formal situations it's become a way more important to use sophisticated words. Especially in situations that we "sell ourself" such as in our thesis judgment, job-interview, academic presentation, seminar, etc.

Mengubah Mental Pegawai dengan Khuruj

Adzan shalat Dhuhur berkumandang dari masjid di kantor Walikota Palopo, Sulawesi Selatan, siang itu. Hampir seluruh pegawai bergegas menuju masjid untuk menunaikan shalat. Sebagian pegawai pria lengkap dengan kopiahnya, sementara pegawai wanita lengkap dengan busana Muslimah.
Situasi di atas adalah pemandangan sehari-hari di kantor tersebut. Shalat berjamaah diharuskan bagi seluruh pegawai Muslim. Tak hanya itu, di kantor ini juga diwajibkan berjilbab bagi Muslimah, bisa mengaji, serta khuruj (keluar wilayah untuk berdakwah dengan waktu yang telah ditentukan). Semua itu tertuang dalam surat edaran Walikota Palopo dengan nomor 450/160/Kesra/IV/2009, perihal Peningkatan Shalat Berjamaah dan Kerjasama Dakwah dengan Jamaah Tabligh.

Tapi jangan salah, semua ini bukan paksaan. Semuanya berjalan dengan kesadaran setelah para pegawai mengikuti pesantren kilat yang diberi nama Bimbingan dan Latihan Mental Spiritual. Hasil kerjasama Pemda Palopo dan Jamaah Tabligh (JT).

Cooperation and implicature

Cooperation and implicature
In our daily life, speakers and listeners involved in conversation are generally cooperating with each other. In other words, when people are talking with each other, they must try to converse smoothly and successfully. In accepting speakers’ presuppositions, listeners have to assume that a speaker is not trying to mislead them. This sense of cooperation is simply one in which people having a conversation are not normally assumed to be trying to confuse, trick, or withhold relevant information from one another.
However, in real communication, the intention of the speaker is often not the literal meaning of what he or she says. The real intention implied in the words is called conversational implicature.
Example:
[1]
A: Can you tell me the time?
B: Well, the milkman has come.
In this little conversation, A is asking B about the time, but B is not answering directly. That indicates that B may also not know the accurate time, but through saying “the milkman has come”, he is in fact giving a rough time. The answer B gives is related to the literal meaning of the words, but is not merely that. That is often the case in communication. The theory of conversational implicature is for the purpose of explaining how listeners infer the speakers’ intention through the words.

Making dakwah on the journey from calcutta to New Delhi

Written by : Pak Faizal Solo
Assalamualaikum wr.wb
berikut ini adalah satu cerita unik dalam perjalanan naik kereta api dari calcutta ke new delhi. saat itu saya dan beberapa teman berjumpa orang India asli yang muslim tapi alirannya Brelwi. apa seh "Brelwi"? "Brelwi" itu aliran yang meninggikan Nabi Muhammad SAW secara berlebihan. mereka menganggap Nabi Muhammad itu bukan manusia seperti kita tapi sudah merupakan "Nur" tersendiri. mereka juga senang berlama-lama di kuburan dengan berdoa memohon sesuatu. 
Nah, yang saya jumpai ini seorang supir yang senang ziarah kubur makam wali-wali yang bertebaran di lembah hindustan. dia rencana mau ke makam syaikh nizamuddin aulia dan ke makam ajmeer syarif. 
yang aneh dari orang ini ketika waktu sholat tiba dan kami ajak sholat dia menolak dengan halus.
begini rekaman percakapan yang berisi ajakan buat dia.

me: ap hadrat namaaz karo. tashrif namaaz (tuan yang mulia sholatlah, mari sholat)
the brelwi: I'm a driver.
me: it's ok that you're driver but you're moslem.I suggest you  to perform sholat right now.
the brelwi: I'm a driver and I just perform sholat at jum'ah.
me: ap hadrat, namaaz dzoruri hai . (tuan yang mulia, sholat itu penting/wajib).
the brelwi: :)