scholarly journals Implementation of Brown & Levinson’s Sociological Aspects in Verbal Interaction at Hotel Context

2017 ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
I Made Rai Jaya Widanta ◽  
Made Budiarsa ◽  
I Wayan Simpen ◽  
I Made Netra
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Vocational College ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Data Collecting

This research is an initiating reserach atempting to support the main project of developing pragmatic-based English teaching model at vocational college. Specifically, it is aimed examining whether (or not) sociocultural aspects of power, distance, and rank of imposition (PDR) proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) is applicable for hotel context. In addition, it was aimed at designing oral role play card used for the main research data collecting. The role play card focuses on speech act (SA) of request and refusal. Twenty hotel staff were involved in doing exemplar generation, and activity undertaken to list situations at hotel dealing with request and refusal, and to inventory two most widely occured situation of each SA to be used as topic of role play card. The card was piloted by involving three students to see whether they were appropriate and obtain input of correction both content and language before being used. It was concluded that PDR is not tottaly suitable sosiological aspect used for criteria in doing verbal interaction at hotel context as power and distace (P D) are not distinctive aspects.     

SEXUAL EUPHEMISM EXPRESSED IN POP AND HIP HOP LYRIC SONGS: A PRAGMATIC STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Cita Mustika Kusumah
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Directive Speech ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Sexual Body

This research aims to describe and give an overview of the use of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop lyric songs to avoid taboo words which are usually unfreely to mention in public. The researcher uses qualitative method and descriptive method to analyze the data. The researcher uses forty songs consist of twenty pop songs and twenty hip hop songs to be analysed. From forty songs, the researcher finds ninety seven data. Researcher believes the data are found to contain sexual euphemism in the utterance that included in pragmatic study.Researcher describes and analyzes every single of data that are included the theory of Allan and Buridge (1991). From the research data, the researcher found that there is a differential usage of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop which is sexual euphemism in sexual activity appears more frequently in pop songs and sexual euphemism in sexual body parts appears more frequently in hip hop songs. Both pop and hip hop songs use representative speech act more frequently than directive speech act. Euphemism was used in the lyrics to avoid words that are considered taboo in some communities.Keywords: speech act, sexual euphemismINTRODUCTIONIn

scholarly journals Turkish Vocational School Students’ Perception of 5E Teaching Model

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Yasar Kazu ◽  
Emine Bozu
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Question Survey

This purpose of this study is to determine perception of students about implementation of 5E teaching model, one of the applications of constructivist approach in classroom environment, in vocational schools. For this purpose a 32-question survey was administered. 631 students were surveyed, including 227 male, 404 female studentsof 13 different programmes in Tunceli Vocational School of Tunceli University during the 2011-2012 academic year. Average, t-test, standard deviation, frequency and percentage distribution were used for the analysis of the research data. According to the results of the study, significant variations by gender were detected in 6 items, including “Supporting learning by revealing pre-knowledge”, “Defining the wrong points in the developed hypotheses ”, “Considering as unnecessary the instructor’s encouragement tolearn”, “Listening to the explanations of my friends”, “Giving opportunity for peer-review among students” and “Giving answers to questions with admissible evidences”. Affirming with their replies, the students revealed the applicability of the model. However further studies are necessary to see the implementation of the phases of the 5E model respectively, and it is considered that different researches should be performed with the purpose ofobserving that necessarypre-learning for each phase has been carried out.

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