scholarly journals Teachers’ Politeness Markers in Request in Classroom Interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Hieronimus Canggung Darong ◽  
A. Effendi Kadarisman ◽  
Yazid Basthomi
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Classroom Interactions ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Illocutionary Act

This study is an attempt to examine politeness markers employed by Indonesian English teachers in classroom interactions. Purposefully chosen English teachers were observed, audio-recorded, and analyzed by using the politeness principle and Gricean cooperative principle. The conversation analysis revealed that to mitigate the illocutionary act of request, aside from using internal modifiers at most (consultative device, politeness markers, hesitators, hedges, play-downs, committers, down-toners, understaters), the teachers also used external devices as an adjunct to the head acts (grounder, sweetener, and disarmer). Besides, teachers intentionally violated the maxim for the sake of extending the talk. Further research needs to include more participants and instruments in a wider area of analysis.  

scholarly journals “Are you saying …?”

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Public Hearings

This study explores metapragmatic comments in Nigerian quasi-judicial public hearings, involving interactions between complainants, defendants and a hearing panel, with a view to investigating their forms, features, distribution and functions. The data are analysed quantitatively and qualitatively from a discourse-pragmatic framework that incorporates Verschueren’s theory of metapragmatics, Mey’s pragmatic act theory, Grice’s Cooperative Principle and conversation analysis. Four types of metapragmatic comments are used: speech act descriptions, talk regulation comments, maxim adherence/violation related comments and metalinguistic comments. Their distribution and functioning are shown to be partly predictable from properties of the speech event, while they also co-determine the nature and development of the analysed hearings.

scholarly journals Speech Act Taking Place in the Medical Conversation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. p29
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Agung Dian Susanthi ◽  
Ketut Artawa ◽  
Ida Bagus Putra Yadnya ◽  
Made Sri Satyawati
Keyword(s):  
Antenatal Care ◽  
Physiological Condition ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
Context Of Situation

This study aims at analyzing the maxims in the five categories of speech act on medical conversation of textbook entitled “English for midwives: Practical Guidance For Antenatal care”. The objectives are: (1) To find out the categories of speech act on the medical conversation, (2) To analyze the intended meaning of the speaker, (3) To analyze the cooperative principle that must be concerned on the conversation. There are some theories applied in this study, namely the theory of Speech Act, theory of context of situation, the maxim theory. The result shows that there are three categories of speech act (illocutionary act) found in the conversation, namely: assertive, directives, and expressives. The data (1) shows that the assertive conveys asking information; The data (2) shows directive conveys request; The data (3) shows directive conveys suggestion, there is maxim violation in term of manner found in this data; The data (4) shows directive conveys request; The data (5) shows directive conveys explanation; The data (6) shows directive conveys suggestion, there are maxims violation found in terms of quantity, quality and manner; The data (7) shows expressive conveys asking physiological condition, there are maxims violation in terms of quantity and quality; The data (8) shows expressive conveys asking physiological condition, there are maxims violation in terms of quantity, quality and manner found; The data (9) and (10) show expressives convey asking physiological condition.

scholarly journals Conversation Analysis Of Indonesia Lawyers Club Talk Show Episode “Negara Paceklik, Perokok Dicekik?”

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Agus Ganjar Runtiko
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Cooperative Principles

This study aims is to identifying the structure of conversation and application of cooperative principle as a prerequisite for good conversation in the discussion on Indonesia Lawyers Club (ILC) talk show episode "Negara Paceklik, Perokok Dicekik?" Which aired on August 23, 2016 at TVOne. The data analyzed by using conversation principles as suggested by D. Hymes in the ethnography of speaking, and cooperative principles as suggested by H.P. Grice. This research reveals that as a live broadcast event, ILC talk show episode "Negara Paceklik, Perokok Dicekik?" has form a good structure and meet SPEAKING scheme. However, in terms of the cooperative principle, ILC talk show still needs an evaluation. This study confirms Garfinkel concepts about creativity of human actors, who in the context of ILC conversation are modifying goals, rules, structure and style, also effects of the discussion according to his interests.

scholarly journals Pragmatic Strategy of Indonesian English Teachers in Questioning

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Hieronimus Canggung Darong
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Classroom Talk ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Conservation Analysis ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Social Communicative ◽  
Pragmatic Strategies

<em>This study was an attempt to examine pragmatic strategies and questioning types employed by English teachers in classroom interactions. Delivering the functions of questions by their types is insufficient to manage the flow of interaction. As such, the teachers need a certain pragmatic strategy. Data were gathered from three Indonesian English teachers. Purposefully selected teachers were observed, audio-recorded, and analyzed by using Gricean cooperative principle and politeness principle following the principle of Conservation Analysis (CA). The conservation analysis revealed that the use of external devices- adjunct to the head acts or enquirers (grounder, sweetener, and disarmer) and internal modifiers (syntactic interrogative downgraders and lexical consultative downgraders) were mostly used by the teachers in employing questions to mitigate the illocutionary act of questioning as a request. In addition, the teachers intentionally violated the maxim for the sake of managing the flow of conservation. Subsequently, this study mirrors previous research findings that display questions as the most frequent strategies used to extend the talk and to invite learner response. Instead of analyzing questions that conventionally associate those with speech act theory, social aspects of interpersonal normativity (being responsible and autonomous) might be of benefit in sharing social-communicative intentions in order to extend the classroom talk.</em>

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Some Quranic Verses in Light of Grice's Cooperative Principle

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Ismail Abdulrahaman Abdulla ◽  
Suhayla H. Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Speech Events

The present paper is an attempt to evaluate the applicability of Grice’s Co-operative Principle and Conversational Maxims, as one of the outstanding models in Pragmatics, to some selected Quranic conversations. Grice’s model is regarded as template for the flow of conversations and interactions held between people. Quran, as a Holy Text in Islam, contains many speech events, i.e., situations wherein conversations take place. In the stories narrated in Quran, there are situations in which, as the ordinary life of the human beings, participants converse with one another. In this study , the researchers examine the applicability of the conversation model of Grice to the Quranic conversations. To this end, the researchers have quoted some verses from Quran, first  in Arabic along with their translations in English , and analysed them in light of Grice’s model of conversation analysis. Findings indicate that in the Quranic conversations there are occasions where the maxims of conversation are observed and in some other cases not observed. This fact attests the universality of Grice’s model.

scholarly journals Judicious Use of L1: A Sociocultural Investigation of Teachers’ Use of L1 in L2 Classrooms

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Khonamri
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Classroom Interactions ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
L1 Use

This study is a sociocultural investigation of the reasons why teachers use L1 in L2 classes through different classroom “modes” (Walsh, 2011). So far, a few studies regarding L1 have focused on L1 use in different classroom contexts, and none have used Walsh’s model of classroom modes. To this end, the present study used Walsh’s model which quarters the classroom context along with the Conversation Analysis techniques, to meticulously examine the classroom interactions. The classes were chosen from three different teachers in Mazandaran, Iran. A total of 6 sessions were recorded and transcribed. Results suggest that teachers use L1 mostly for managing purposes: drawing students’ attention, and making sure they have comprehended what they are supposed to do, and educational purposes: explaining difficult grammar and vocabulary, and eliciting desired structures or utterances. These findings might help teachers use L1 more efficiently and judiciously, instead of avoiding it when and where it might benefit the learners, as well as minimizing it in their classes as much as possible.

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