Religious and Cultural Values in Douglass Macarthur's Poem and It's Translation (a Discourse Analysis Study)

Al Arief, Yusuf and Amelia, Rizky (2017) Religious and Cultural Values in Douglass Macarthur's Poem and It's Translation (a Discourse Analysis Study). In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences Education - "Multicultural Transformation in Education, Social Sciences and Wetland Environment" (ICSSE 2017) :. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research . Atlantis Press. ISBN 9789462524514

Abstract

"A father's prayer" is a poem written by General Douglas MacArthur used by Andrie Wongso motivate people. Our research was to describe the differences of religious and cultural values based on the language use. These differences were based on discourse analysis using Systemic Functional Grammar. This study is a Descriptive qualitative research. The data was collected by using observation method and documentation technique. Writers found facts that at least there were two big differences between the poem in English and in Indonesian caused by the religious and cultural values.