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Novel sebagai sebuah karya sastra mengandung banyak kemungkinan makna yang bisa dipahami oleh pembaca sesuai dengan kacamata yang dipakai. Suatu makna yang ditemukan pembaca dalam melihat sebuah novel bisa saja sama dengan keinginan pengarang, tetapi mungkin juga berbeda jauh dengan keinginan pengarang. Pada dasarnya ada dua pendekatan yang secara um'um bisa diterapkan datam melihat sebuah novel, yaitu pendekatan yang bersifat ekstrinsik yang melibatkan aspek-aspek tuar dalam merekontruksi makna sebuah novel, seperti aspek sosial dan budaya pengarang yang dihubungkan dengan aspek struktur dalam karya sastra; dan yang kedua adalah pendekatan yang bersifat intrinsik yang melihat sebuah novel dari keterkaitan unsur yang ada di dalamya. Kedua model pendekatan ini tentunya rnasing-masing punya kelebihan dan kekurangannya. Nmaun, yang paling penting di sini adalah adanya sebuah keterbukaan dan kebebasan pembaca untuk melihat sebuah karya dan menampilkan kernungkinan makna yang ada di dalamnya. Semiotika sebagai sebuah ilmu yang mengkaji tentang tanda telah memberikan sumbangan yang berarti dalam melihat sebuah novel. Tidak hanya sebuah novel, semuanya hal bisa dianggap tanda selama kita bisa menemukan kaitan antara tanda dan yang ditandai. Di sini yang dibutuhkan adalah sebuah sensitifitas yang tinggi untuk mendeteksi sebuah tanda, mencari acuanya, dan mendapatkan grouncf-nya. Ada dua ground atau dasar yang melatari sebuah novel yaitu konvensi kebahasaan karena novel ditu!is dalam bentuk bahasa dan juga konvensi kesastraan yang berlaku bagi novel pada umumnya sebagat sebuah karya sastra. Semiotfka adalah sebuah ilmu yang sangat luas. Di samping cakupannya yang bisa merambah ke semua hal yang memungkinkan bisa dianggap sebuah tanda, tetapi juga kita menemukan begitu banyak tokoh yang mencetuskan teori dan dasar-dasar argumennya. Makalah yang singkat ini memilih konsep semiotika Charles Sander Peirce sebagai dasar pendekatan terutama dalam melihat aspek hubungn antara tanda dan acuanya,

This study aims to describe the meanings of idioms with weaponry elements in Arabic. The object of study is focused on the Arabic weaponry idiomatic expression. The theory of Semantic field is used to dissect the idiomatic elements. This is useful for finding relationships of meanings, which are formed by the use of elements of the weaponry idioms. The results shows that the weaponry idiomatic elements of guns have meanings mostly out of the war context. The Arabic weaponry idiomatic expression can show some positive and negative attributes, human activities and human relationships with others or with nature.

Word Production (Called in Arabic by Al-Tawlīd Al-Luġawy) which means inventing new words is one of development of language phenomenon that happens in any languages including Arabic. This phenomenon is a demand of condition that one language is not capable of expressing ideas and emotions and has something to do with communication with non-speaker or other languages. Thus, a language can influence and be influenced. This paper tried to uncover reasons and theories using comparative study so that it is clear for Arabic language researchers to use tawlid in their research. The writer found eight reasons why neology emerged, which are development of civilization, friction between Arab and Non-Arab, administration system after Islamic expansion, translation process from Greek into Arabic, social and political demands, the beauty of expression, and inventing new scientific terms, while Ibrahim Murad stated five theories about neology: phonetic neology, morphological neology, semantic neo...

The development of Arabic which is influenced other language and culture is very interesting to be discussed, because Arabs themselves are not able to give a name to something that does not exist in their nature and their thought, such as naming cases, and terms that come from language and nature of thought of Indonesians. Many of these new words and terms have been featured in one of the Arabic language magazines which is Alo Indonesia . This study aims to find out how the names and terms in Indonesian discourse influenced Arabic and the problems that arise in the process of producing words in the magazine. This research is literature research that used descriptive methods, namely describing the data by concerning to how the use of new Arabic words and terms in Alo Indonesia magazine. The data collection method is done by using the “note-taking” technique which is then collected in the data card. To answer the two main problems above, the writer used Ibrahim Murad's theory of n...

The development of Arabic which is influenced other language and culture is very interesting to be discussed, because Arabs themselves are not able to give a name to something that does not exist in their nature and their thought, such as naming cases, and terms that come from language and nature of thought of Indonesians. Many of these new words and terms have been featured in one of the Arabic language magazines which is Alo Indonesia. This study aims to find out how the names and terms in Indonesian discourse influenced Arabic and the problems that arise in the process of producing words in the magazine. This research is literature research that used descriptive methods, namely describing the data by concerning to how the use of new Arabic words and terms in Alo Indonesia magazine. The data collection method is done by using the “note-taking” technique which is then collected in the data card. To answer the two main problems above, the writer used Ibrahim Murad's theory of ne...

The clash between Eastern and Western civilization has always been a topic of interest with various responses. Egypt is one of the countries, which has this response. This can be seen from Taufiq al-Hakim’s  “Usfur min al-Syarq”. The scholars of modern Egypt thought have divided these responses into three groups: the conservatives, the Westernists, and the moderates. The conservatives tend to preserve the indigenous cultures. The Westernists try to westernize the indigenous cultures, while the moderates hybridize the culture. Through Abrams’ categorization, al-Hakim’s thought can be formulated in three developments. Firstly, the progress of those two civilizations has different directions. Each has its own advantages: the Western deals with earth and the Eastern with heaven. Secondly, the Eastern loses its identity if the Western dominates. Thirdly, al-Hakim hybridizes the positive sides of the two poles.  

Sarah’s novel is a unique masterpiece of an author dubbed as Imlaq al-'Arab (The Giant), ‘Abbas Mahmud al-‘Aqqad. This novel is unique because it is the only of his work written in the form of novels among his works. It's pretty awesome because al-'Aqqad has written about 83 books in various fields of science and 10 anthologies of poetries. The presence of this novel provokes some responses of various groups of litterateurs, writers, and readers, either a positive or a negative response, particularly when it is associated with al-‘Aqqad’s side of life as well as the condition of society in his time of life. To review this novel, the author uses the Reception Theory in Literature. The theory emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text as an important factor in the interpretation of literature. In fact, the reader as interpreter presents diversity of meaning in accordance with the Horizon of Expectations as Hans Robert Jauss said. In addition, the diversity of...