Current Issue
It is our great pleasure to present KLAUSA Journal Volume 9 No. 2 (2025), an issue that reflects the journal’s continued commitment to advancing scholarly inquiry in linguistics, literature, and discourse studies across diverse cultural and media contexts. The articles gathered in this volume demonstrate both theoretical rigor and methodological diversity, addressing contemporary issues ranging from semiotics, pragmatics, and semantics to media studies, digital discourse, and literary analysis.
This issue opens with a semiotic reading of popular culture through Roland Barthes’s framework in the analysis of the Korean drama Lovely Runner, followed by an important qualitative study on the impact of gadget exposure on early childhood first language acquisition. Several contributions foreground discourse and media analysis, including examinations of cohesion and coherence in political news reporting, public decoding of disinformation in online political discourse, and critical pragmatic perspectives on language ethics among adolescents in TikTok comment sections. Other articles explore naming practices in Javanese society, acceptance experiments in Indonesian sentence structure manipulation, and reception and clarification strategies employed by cancelled K-pop idols and actors on social media. Together, these studies highlight the dynamic relationship between language, society, and digital media.
Literary and critical perspectives are equally well represented in this volume. Comparative stylistic analysis of poetry by W.S. Rendra and Robert Frost, an investigation of flaming as verbal cyberbullying on TikTok, and a deconstructive reading of aporia in Minanto’s Aib dan Nasib enrich the interdisciplinary scope of this issue. Collectively, the contributions in this volume underscore the relevance of linguistic and literary scholarship in interpreting social change, cultural negotiation, and meaning-making practices in both local and global contexts.
We extend our sincere gratitude to the authors for their valuable contributions, the reviewers for their insightful and constructive feedback, and the editorial team for their dedication and professionalism. We hope that KLAUSA Journal Volume 9 No. 2 (2025) will serve as a meaningful resource for researchers, educators, and students, and will inspire further dialogue and research in the fields of language, literature, and discourse studies.
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