Pragmastylistics potrayed in Personal Essay of English Department’s Student

Abstract

This research focus oh how students apply pragmatylistics in personal essay whereas their background are organization activist who also have good academic achievement. This research apply some theories in analyzing data, namely: pragmastylistics, personal essay, communication theory. This research used descriptive qualitative method. Beside that this research use two data collection techniques: observation and interview. So that this research describe phenomenon which relate to research problems. Based on the findings, students apply some of stylistics expression which categorize into two: (1) lexical features: pararelism, and rhetorical question, and comparison and (2) figurative language: accumulation, ephipora, hyphopora, personification, accumulation, simile, symbol, metaphor, and antithesis. Whereas students uses different stylistics expression in some context: (1) lexical features: pararelism: used to harmonize of idea balancing, rhetorical question: used to employed in writing for the purpose of imposing a sense of support and approval of the reader, and comparison: used to emphasize writer’s idea through things’s comparison, and (2) figurative language: accumulation, used to forceful manner, simile: used to analogize power of ideas and ask the reader think about the writer’s ideas, ephipora: used to emphasize writers’s ideas, hypophora: used to urge reader think about writer’s idea through question, personification: used to emphasize teasing allusion to reader, , symbol: used to invite reader about writer’s idea through sign, metaphor: used to reader about writer’s idea through analogy, and antithesis: used to juxtaposition of opposing and contrasting idea