https://ibn.e-journal.id/index.php/LINGUA <div id="journalDescription"> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Esensi Lingua is a journal for implementing research in English and Bahasa Indonesia, focusing on Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching. Its ISSN is 26566478. This journal is&nbsp;</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true">published by the Lembaga Riset dan Pengabdian Masyarakat Institut Bisnis Nusantara (LRPM IBN). Articles should have never been published online or in print in other journals.&nbsp;</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The editors welcome submissions of manuscripts related to the field.&nbsp;</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The publication is scheduled twice a year, in May and November. Google Scholar, Garuda, Copernicus, OneSearch, Neliti, EndNote, Zotero, and Grammarly index it</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true">. Articles will be checked for plagiarism by Turnitin, with the minimum level of similarity possible, and have a blind review by the reviewers.</span></p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> Lembaga Riset dan Pengabdian Masyarakat Institut Bisnis Nusantara en-US ESENSI LINGUA 2656-6478 https://ibn.e-journal.id/index.php/LINGUA/article/view/868 <p>This research discusses the sentences used in affirmation when applying Law of Attraction (LoA). The aims of this research are to introduce the sentences used in applying LoA successfully, and contribute in science and language fields. There are three research questions offered in this research, first. how do language elements are used in applying LoA, second, how are the sentences arranged to direct positive vibes, and the last, what words should be chosen to attract positive vibes. The data are taken from several books used by LoA practioners. The conclusions are the language elements used in LoA: <em>nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, possessive adjectives, prepositions, determiners, conjunctions, or pronouns, </em>the sentences are arranged to direct positive vibes by applying Losier (2007) tools, namely <em>identify desires, give your desire attention, and allow it, c</em>hosen words to attract positive vibes commonly are <em>attracting, getting, come, radiate, better, worthy, good, grateful, effortlessly, every way, love, joy, positivity, abundance</em>, and <em>prosperity. </em></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Law of Attraction (LoA), positive vibes, goals, word choices&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> Cut Nina Sausina ##submission.copyrightStatement## 2024-05-31 2024-05-31 6 1 1 9 https://ibn.e-journal.id/index.php/LINGUA/article/view/884 <p style="font-weight: 400;">This research aims to find out the reasons of characters uttering some ambiguous words, phrases, or sentences in the movie and to describe the meaning of ambiguous words uttered by characters. This research will also provide some ambiguous characteristic information that appears more often in the movie. The method used for this research is descriptive qualitative and the writers use theory by Crystal (2008). The data audio-visual data taken from the part of the conversation of the movie. The research obtained nine data contained the ambiguous word, phrases, or sentences. They are lexical and structural ambiguity. Lexical ambiguity is a characteristic that often appears in this movie. There are eight data using ambiguous lexical characteristics, while there is one data that uses ambiguous structural.</p> Dewi Nuryanti Siti Nurhalimatus Sa’diah ##submission.copyrightStatement## 2024-05-31 2024-05-31 6 1 10 18 https://ibn.e-journal.id/index.php/LINGUA/article/view/914 <p style="font-weight: 400;">The research aimed to explain some terms of words used in verbal communication by customer service to its customers. The data were recorded data taken by recording and transcribing into utterances. The method used was the qualitative method Cresswell and the theory used for analyzing is by using Kreidler’s theory. The result found three general terms of words used in some processes. They are 1) Terms of using words in verbal communication related to service availability at Adira Finance Zainul Arifin, such as The Multipurpose credit, motorcycle/car loans, electronics, furniture, and gadget loans terms; 2) Terms of using words in verbal communication related to customer offering process such as Log in to CRM Next, choose potential leads, list of potential leads, biodata of prospective customers, and contacting prospective customers; and 3) terms of using words in verbal communication related to the credit application process, such as checking the history payment of customers, vehicle units checking, calculating credit structure, providing customers forms and files, credit analyst process, and disbursement of funds.&nbsp;</p> Dewi Nuryanti ##submission.copyrightStatement## 2024-05-31 2024-05-31 6 1 19 23