Chapter 1:

1.1 Language as Saying, Doing, and Being

Worksheet 1a

Instruction: Think of different situations in which the statement is used by the speaker

NO Saying Doing Being

1. Criticizing An unfriendly officer
2. Postponing
3. Saya sedang makan Etc
4.
5.
6.
7.

Worksheet 1b

Instruction: Analyze Rocky Gerung in any ILC episode and classify different statements of his into doing and being

No Saying Doing Being

Tumben saudara Nusron tumpul ke saya malam
ini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3A3_7iHtas

Etc

1.2 Language as Practice

Worksheet 2

Instruction: List other examples to show that language gets its meaning from activities not dictionaries or from other words

No Doing Being Saying

Hom pim pah
Interupsi
Coffee break
Etc

1.3 Language and ‘Politics’ = to be well accepted; to be social good

Worksheet 3

Instruction: List other examples to show that language have some rules and/or conventions that make the speaker be well accepted (social good)

No Saying Doing Being

Etc
 1.4 Two Forms of Discourse Analysis: Descriptive and ‘Critical’

Descriptive: only content to study the theme/issues being discussed or only grammar and its function to make meaning

Critical: Meaning as an integration of ways of saying, doing, and being

No Saying Doing Being

Hornworms sure vary a lot in how well they grow Expressing an opinion based on one’s Everyday person
doing, and being
Different ways of saying,

observation
The subject or the topic is hornworms (noun)
vary: process
Hornworm growth exhibits a significant amount of variation Making a claim based on statistical tests of expert
‘significance’ that are ‘owned’ and
 The subject or the topic is hornworm growth ‘operated’ by the discipline of biology
(noun phrase)—complex structure
 variation: abstract noun
 The voice of reason
Hornworms growth sure exhibits a significant amount of
variation

Odd: mixes everyday language with specialist language by

the use of sure (=emotion)

Etc
 Chapter 2

Building Tasks

Worksheet 2a

Instruction: Watch and transcribe one episode of ILC. List the clauses used by Rocky Gerung toward one of his opponent. Analyze them based on
the 7 building tasks (significance, practices, identities, relationships, politics, connections, sign systems and knowledge.

NO CLAUSES 7 building tasks

significance practices identities relationships politics connections Sign
systems
and
knowledge

Discourse Analysis Questions:

1. How is this piece of language being used to make certain things significant or not and in what ways?
2. What practice (activity) or practices (activities) is this piece of language being used to enact?
3. What identity or identities is this piece of language being used to enact? What identity or identities is this piece of language attributing
to others and how does this help the speaker or writer enact his or her identity?
4. What sort of relationship or relationships is this piece of language seeking to enact with others?
5. What perspective on social goods is this piece of language communicating?
6. How does his piece of language connect or disconnect things; how does it make one thing relevant or irrelevant to another?
7. How does the piece of language privilege or disprivilege specific sign systems or different ways of knowing and believing or claims to
knowledge and belief?

Worksheet 2b

Instruction: Collect and analyze data from social media that you are involved in and describe tensions between Prabowo’s fans and Jokowi’s fans
over status and commitment to the country