DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY

Speech act is an act of communication that must be understood by the speaker and listener. Misunderstanding of speech act in conversation or dialogue can cause the misleading in the conversation. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the speech act types in daily conversation between students and p...

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Main Authors: Syafryadin Syafryadin, Imam Sudarmaji, Santiana Santiana
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Language:English
Published: English Literature Department, Universitas Bangka Belitung 2022-10-01
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Online Access:https://lirejournal.ubb.ac.id/index.php/LRJ/article/view/152
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description Speech act is an act of communication that must be understood by the speaker and listener. Misunderstanding of speech act in conversation or dialogue can cause the misleading in the conversation. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the speech act types in daily conversation between students and parents at home.  Qualitative research design was undertaken by the researcher to gain the speech act types. The research participants were twenty-four students of English Education department. Checklist was used to obtain the data. Moreover, the data were analyzed by using qualitative analysis by applying several stages from reduction, displaying and drawing conclusion. The result showed that several types of speech were found during conversation of students and parents at home. Those were directive, declarative, expressive and commissive. The dominant speech act type was directive because the parents asked the students to do something at home. Another finding showed that the students and parents did not use representative speech act in the conversation. It is because in the conversation between students and parents at home were informal conversation that seldom or never use representative. In short, it is not all speech appeared in the conversation because it depends on the function of speech act itself.
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spelling doaj-art-1e8ba46d3f44465893ad907fbb5449772025-02-02T08:04:55ZengEnglish Literature Department, Universitas Bangka BelitungLire Journal2581-21302598-18032022-10-016210.33019/lire.v6i2.152152DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDYSyafryadin Syafryadin0Imam Sudarmaji1Santiana Santiana2University of BengkuluUniversitas Islam Syekh YusufUniversitas Siliwangi Speech act is an act of communication that must be understood by the speaker and listener. Misunderstanding of speech act in conversation or dialogue can cause the misleading in the conversation. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the speech act types in daily conversation between students and parents at home.  Qualitative research design was undertaken by the researcher to gain the speech act types. The research participants were twenty-four students of English Education department. Checklist was used to obtain the data. Moreover, the data were analyzed by using qualitative analysis by applying several stages from reduction, displaying and drawing conclusion. The result showed that several types of speech were found during conversation of students and parents at home. Those were directive, declarative, expressive and commissive. The dominant speech act type was directive because the parents asked the students to do something at home. Another finding showed that the students and parents did not use representative speech act in the conversation. It is because in the conversation between students and parents at home were informal conversation that seldom or never use representative. In short, it is not all speech appeared in the conversation because it depends on the function of speech act itself. https://lirejournal.ubb.ac.id/index.php/LRJ/article/view/152Speech actdaily conversationpragmatic study
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DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
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daily conversation
pragmatic study
title DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
title_full DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
title_fullStr DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
title_full_unstemmed DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
title_short DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY
title_sort dominant speech act type in daily conversation a pragmatic study
topic Speech act
daily conversation
pragmatic study
url https://lirejournal.ubb.ac.id/index.php/LRJ/article/view/152
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