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Miami Teen Commits Suicide in Two-Hour Long Facebook Live Video, the Third in as Many Weeks. Author Attribution in Suicide Notes: Evidence from Applied Linguistics. An Analysis of Adjectives Used in Suicide Notes in Terms of Positivity/Negativity/Neutrality. Penyelesaian Kasus KDRT (Kekerasan dalam Rumah Tangga) di Pengadilan Agama. Meanings in a Suicide Note: An Analysis of Linguistics Pragmatics in Nusadi’s Suicide Note. Patriarchal culture that puts women in charge of serving the family is also presumably to take part in encouraging the suicide.Īlfiyan, R.

The results of lexical semantic analysis showed that the notewriter left a couple of messages like apologies and requests but in an assertive mode to be carried out by the abandoned parties, while the results of pragmatic semantics analysis and relevance theory showed that the motive of the suicide was feeling of failure in carrying out her role as a housewife. The procedures began with tabulating and categorizing the words based on their part of speech to see their prominent linguistic features and conducting twofold analysis, namely lexical semantic analysis to find notewriter’s messages and pragmatic semantic analysis and relevance theory to find the underlying motive. In this article, words, phrases, and sentences employed in a suicide note left by a married young lady were analyzed using lexical semantics, pragmatic semantics, and relevance theory to uncover messages and underlying motives. Suicide note, one of noteworthy evidences in forensic linguistics, may inform the suicidal behavior of the notewriter, such as the emotional aspects, messages, expectations, motives, and its genuinity.

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