Group 2:

1. Ambar Nurul Ansari

2. Dwi Firli Ashari
3. Nurul Noviana
4. Widya Laksmawati
5. Yulia Sari Riyanti

Written Discourse Analysis

(WDA)
 Outline Presentation
Example of written discourse and analysis from:
1. Path
2. BBM
3. Facebook
4. WhatsApp (WA)
Written discourse: Path
 Written discourse: Analysis
From the screenshots above, there is different
perspective within the quote and the person. The
quote includes the Mathematics thing and the
person cannot understand even I have explained
what it is meant by the quote. It is because the
prior knowledge of the person is different with
Mathematic thing and also her interests. She is an
English teacher from Global Prestasi School and
she does not like Mathematics. Therefore,
although the quote is quite funny, she still cannot
understand what it intends to or refer to.
Written discourse: BBM
 Written discourse: Analysis
The second one is the conversation on BBM. I
posted a private message which was Bete
banget sama anak priuk. I wish the respond was
like asking why or something related with the
private message. But then, I got the different
respond which was Walahh.. Piye kbrmu mbar?
It was really far from the respond that I wanted.
Maybe, it is because of the different culture. She
has not been to Jakarta and of course she does
not know Priuk. And the second possibility is she
does not know who the person that I mean is.
That is why those things happened.
Written discourse: Facebook
 Written discourse: Analysis
1. Comment #1 2. Comment #2
(respondent) (respondent)
Gender: female Gender: male
Age: is about 22 y.o Age: is about 18-19 y.o
Status: alumnus Status: freshman
Intension: giving tips Intension: giving criteria
based on her based on his personal
experience + giving opinion toward the
another news for question
capacity development
 Written discourse: Analysis
3. Comment #3 (respondent)
Gender: male
Age: is about 20 y.o
Status: third-year college students
Intension: sarcasm to me (its because I am
writing my capstone and is about to graduate
next year)
 Written discourse: Facebook
The GazettE here means a
name of Japanese Visual Kei
band that most of Indonesian
young generations who love
Japanese culture familiar
with.

(And everybody is STILL

waiting for them to come
to Indonesia. )
Written discourse: Responses
toward status posted
Written discourse: Analysis #1st
respond
Interlocutor: he does
not much follow the
news about Japanese
pop culture
He believes the
information.
Stereotype of men:
straight-forward
Written discourse: Analysis #2nd
respond
Level of shock: overload
Written discourse: Analysis #3rd
respond
Doubt, surprised
Written discourse: Analysis #4th &
5th responds
Surprised, expecting
confirmation
Interjection: eh?
Japanese

Surprised, doubt
Interjection: hee?
Japanese
Written discourse: Analysis #6th
respond
Expecting confirmation
Believes the
information
Request
Written discourse: Facebook
 Written discourse: Analysis
People who give response on my status stated that
they agree with me. I think, maybe all of them have
the same feeling which is not stupid though they
are slow learner. Some of them even clearly stated
that they are not stupid. In my opinion, they have
confidence and aware of their own capability.
Some of them also put exclamation sign on their
respond, and I think it implies that they strongly
agree with my status even more than the other.
 Written discourse: BBM
Gender: Female and Male
Age: 23-24 years old
Status: College student
Intension: Related to the
conversation topic

The conversation is
linguistically correct in using
punctuation, capitalization,
cohesion for each sentences.

In other point of view, this man

tends to use exaggerating
sentences which is usually used
for woman.
 Written discourse: WA
Gender: Female and female
Age: 21-23 years old
Status: College student
Intension: Related to the
conversation topic

Linguistically analyzed:
She did not use correct
punctuation
Many abbreviations
Slank language
Interjections: ceilaaah, ish,
yowes
Use cohesion
The conversation used
many metaphors to
express a feeling or
thought. The metaphors
can be ambiguous as
positive or negative
meaning.
THANK YOU