Written Discourse Analysis (WDA)

1. Written Discourse Analysis
(WDA)
Group 2:
1. Ambar Nurul Ansari
2. Dwi Firli Ashari
3. Nurul Noviana
4. Widya Laksmawati
5. Yulia Sari Riyanti

2. Outline Presentation
Example of written discourse and analysis from:
1. Path
2. BBM
3. Facebook
4. WhatsApp (WA)

3. Written discourse: Path

4. 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.

5. Written discourse: BBM

6. 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.

7. Written discourse: Facebook

8. Written discourse: Analysis
1. Comment #1
(respondent)
• Gender: female
• Age: is about 22 y.o
• Status: alumnus
• Intension: giving tips
based on her
experience + giving
another news for
capacity development
2. Comment #2
(respondent)
• Gender: male
• Age: is about 18-19 y.o
• Status: freshman
• Intension: giving criteria
based on his personal
opinion toward the
question

9. Written discourse: Analysis
3. Comment #3 (respondent)
• Gender: male
• Age: is about 20 y.o
• Status: third-year college students
• Intension: sarcasm to me (it’s because I am
writing my capstone and is about to graduate
next year)

10. 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. )

11. Written discourse: Responses
toward status posted

12. 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

13. Written discourse: Analysis #2nd
respond
• Level of shock: overload

14. Written discourse: Analysis #3rd
respond
• Doubt, surprised

15. Written discourse: Analysis #4th &
5th responds
• Surprised, expecting
confirmation
• Interjection: “eh?”
Japanese
• Surprised, doubt
• Interjection: “hee?”
Japanese

16. Written discourse: Analysis #6th
respond
• Expecting confirmation
• Believes the
information
• Request

17. Written discourse: Facebook

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. THANK YOU