scholarly journals POLITENESS, SPEECH ACT, AND DISCOURE IN SASAK COMMUNITY

MABASAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Muh. Junaidi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Negative Face

Politeness, speech act and discourse have become an interest area of language use in context. Attention has been drawn to the universality of politeness strategies across the culture. This study examines the nature of pattern of communication in terms of politeness, speech acts and discourse in Sasak speech community. The subject of the study is 1 Tuan Guru giving religious speech in Sikur village. Participant observation is used as the method of data collection in this study. A video recording was used to collect data. Result of the study shows that reminding and suggesting are not the acts of indicating or threatening addressees’ negative face, but positive strategies used to minimize the threat for addressees’ positive face and negative one as a means of saving addressees’ negative face. These three variables were interrelated to decipher the nature of speech pattern of language use in the Sasak speech community. The notion of face should be analyzed according to norms and cultural values of such acts in different speech communities. Hence, the universality of communicative action and the type of speech act in a given speech community are crucial variable to scrutinize the language use in context

scholarly journals Politeness and Speech Acts of Malay Kupang

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Riyanti Menno
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Politeness Theory ◽  
Linguistic Politeness

The study was aimed at examining the use of polite language (language use) in Kupang Malay speech community. There are two basic theories of this research; speech act and linguistic politeness theory. The politeness theory was combined with speech act theory, because the speech act theory investigates what to choose, while the theory of politeness investigate whether the utterances are polite or not. In speech, the BMK speaker also uses the six the principles of politeness toward the listeners. These principles are tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim

scholarly journals Contrastive Pragmatics: Apologies & Thanks in English and Italian

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Cuneyt Demir ◽  
Mehmet Takkac
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
American English ◽  
The Status ◽  
Language Competency ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Remedial Strategies

<p>Awareness of language or language competency has greatly changed from the focus of language itself as form and structure to language use as pragmatics. Accordingly, it is widely accepted that different cultures structure discourse in different ways. Moreover, studies have shown that this holds for discourse genres traditionally considered as highly standardized in their rituals and formulas. Taking inspiration from such studies, this paper employs a corpus-based approach to examine variations of the apology and thanking strategies used in English and Italian. First the apology itself as a form of social action is closely analyzed and then thanking. This study also pays special attention on analyzing and contrasting apology and thanking strategies in American English and in Italian in terms of Marion Owen’s remedial strategies (Owen, 1983), and Olshtain &amp; Cohen’s semantic formulas in the apology speech act set (Olshtain &amp; Cohen, 1983). The purpose of the study is not only to compare apology and thanking speech acts but to also learn their contextual use. The findings suggest that the status and role of the situation affect the speakers’ choice of apology and thanking strategies, and semantic formulas are of great importance.</p>

scholarly journals Speech Acts Analysis on Teaching and Learning Process Used by the Teacher in MAN 2 Mataram in Academic Year 2016-2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Yulia Isnaini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Perlocutionary Act ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Research Show

This study was aimed at finding out Speech Acts Analysis on Teaching andLearning Process used by the Teacher in MAN 2 Mataram in Academic year 2016/2017. The method of this research is qualitative research The data of this research were the utterances performed by the Teachers of MAN 2 Mataram. The research instrument was the researcher himself. Participant is the subject from which the data obtained (Arikunto, 2010: 172)The Researcher’s participant actively classification speech act by the Teachers on teaching and learning process.T he instrument of data by using video camera and observation. To analyze the data Based on Louis (2005:181). This study used observation and video recording as an instrument of data collection, the researcher applied coding system. In this research, there are two validity principles applied by the researcher. The results of the research show that there are three classifications of speech act performed by the Teachers in the aching and learning process . The results of the research show that there are three classification of speech act performed by the Teachers in the aching and learning process. they are 4 data of locutionary act , 30 data of Illucotionary act, 7 data of Perlocutionary act . So the total of data were 41 data of speech act are used By the Teachers in MAN 2 Mataram.

scholarly journals A Bridge to Portugal: Language and Identity in Bridgeport, CT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Fabio Scetti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
American English ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Status

Here I present the results of BridgePORT, an ethnographic study I carried out in 2018 within the Portuguese community of Bridgeport, CT (USA). I describe language use and representation among Portuguese speakers within the community, and I investigate the integration of these speakers into the dominant American English speech community. Through my fieldwork, I observe mixing practices in day-to-day interaction, while I also consider the evolution of the Portuguese language in light of language contact and speakers’ discourse as this relates to ideologies about the status of Portuguese within the community. My findings rely on questionnaires, participant observation of verbal interaction, and semi-structured interviews. My aim is to show how verbal practice shapes the process of identity construction and how ideas of linguistic “purity” mediate the maintenance of a link to Portugal and Portuguese identity.

scholarly journals Speech Acts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Levinson
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Linguistic Pragmatics ◽  
Recursive Structures ◽  
Core Language ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Essential Insight

The essential insight of speech act theory was that when we use language, we perform actions—in a more modern parlance, core language use in interaction is a form of joint action. Over the last thirty years, speech acts have been relatively neglected in linguistic pragmatics, although important work has been done especially in conversation analysis. Here we review the core issues—the identifying characteristics, the degree of universality, the problem of multiple functions, and the puzzle of speech act recognition. Special attention is drawn to the role of conversation structure, probabilistic linguistic cues, and plan or sequence inference in speech act recognition, and to the centrality of deep recursive structures in sequences of speech acts in conversation.

REQUESTING SPEECH ACT OF UTTERANCES IN OCEAN’S ELEVEN BY STEVEN SODERBERGH: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 410
Author(s):  
Nurul Hasanah ◽  
Japen Sarage
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
The Real ◽  
Syntactic Form ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Actual Use

The term sentence and utterance are made different in terms that the former refers to syntactic structure, while the latter points out the actual function of such a structure in real communication. The same things apply to the terms request and requesting. The first term suggests the structural characteristics of sentence asking people to do something while the second term indicates the real sentence causing people to do something. The first deals with formal grammar while the second deals with pragmatics the actual use of language in communication.This article attempts to see requesting in its possible different syntactic forms as parts of speech acts in Ocean’sEleven by Steven Soderbergh. A pragmatic approach is applied since it uses context as a part of linguistic analysis involving the speaker, addressee, time, location, and genre in the conversation. A syntactic form of a sentence only cannot represent the real meaning of intention.The analysis of speech act of the conversation in the film brings us to an understanding that pragmatics encourage us to comprehend different kinds of setting to achieve requesting as a part of language use. Pragmatics as a branch of linguistics reveals mutual understanding between the speaker and the hearer.

scholarly journals Politeness of Language Use amongst Millennial Generation in Namlea City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Chairul Basrun Umanailo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
The City ◽  
Directive Speech ◽  
Descriptive Method

Language politeness is politeness and subtlety in using language when communicating through oral and written. This research is qualitative research using the descriptive method. This research comes from the form of communication between millennials in the city of Namlea. They communicate using the Indonesian Ambonese dialect, while the type of data obtained in this study in oral speech contains politeness elements in the language. The data obtained through the recording are then analyzed using descriptive methods, namely a picture of the reality obtained from the data obtained. The analysis process is carried out through stages, identifying data and numbering data that contain language politeness. The results found that courtesy in language was; directive speech acts and expressive speech acts. There are four forms of speech acts by the millennial directive of Namlea, Buru, and six states of explicit speech act.

Pragmatics and Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 937-948
Author(s):  
Thomas Bearth
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Gricean Maxims ◽  
Repair Mechanisms ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
Discourse Grammar ◽  
Negative Face

While pragmatics is committed to viewing language as goal-driven human activity in specified interactional settings, its application to African contexts, besides offering a means of evaluating the universality of its concepts in predominantly oral settings (negative face, Gricean maxims), reveals areal properties of language use and design. Straightforward correspondence between use and specific features of design is rare apart from speech routines (e.g. greetings), but discourse/grammar interfaces generate structured fields of pragmatic inquiry (information structure, deixis). Culture-driven constraints bear on usage (e.g. taboos) and on negotiation of inferential meaning, while lexically coded metapragmatics opens a little-explored field of hermeneutical reflection indigenous to African communities (speech act vocabulary, proverbs focusing on verbal behavior, repair mechanisms). Broadening the scope of inquiry to the societal dimension of communication while reducing its verbal component to zero level, the chapter concludes with some observations on silence as a pragmatic strategy in African public discourse.

scholarly journals Variability and its limits in bilingual language production

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 855-856
Author(s):  
JUBIN ABUTALEBI ◽  
HARALD CLAHSEN
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The Other ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Activation Patterns ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Ideal

Experimental and other empirical research on language is faced with the fact that language performance exhibits a high degree of variability at all linguistic levels. Variability is found across languages, across speech communities within one language, across individuals within one speech community and even within the same individual. Bilingual language use adds a further source of variability to this already complicated picture. On the other hand, there are aspects of language and language use that are constrained, stable, or robust and that are less (or not at all) subject to variability, for example, possible options that are not chosen in any language or kinds of error that are never produced. Several familiar ways of dealing with the variability of language use and its limits have turned out to be unsatisfactory. One approach has been to simply abstract away from variability with constructs such as the ‘ideal speaker–hearer’ (who – to our knowledge – nobody has met so far). Another strategy is to average across individuals, which sometimes results in arbitrary mean scores or mean activation patterns that are hard to replicate for individuals, even for those who took part in a given study. A third solution when confronted with variability in language use is to take it at face value, positing that every language, every speech community, and even every individual is different, an approach that essentially gives up on discovering any kind of generalizations. While none of these strategies appears to us to be particularly fruitful, the problem of how to deal with variability in language performance and its limits remains.

scholarly journals Speech Act Use in Parenting Style toward Children Self-Esteem in Bad Moms Movie

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-299
Author(s):  
Wenny Pratiwi ◽  
Malikatul Laila
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Authoritative Parenting ◽  
The People ◽  
Authoritative Parenting Style ◽  
Descriptive Method

The parents become one of the crucial factors in determining children’s character. Their character is influenced by the people around them who have frequently made interaction. Based on Bad Moms movie, the changes of parent’s treatment to their children give an effect in several aspects. The technique of collecting the data is watching and examining the movie which relates to language use in parenting style towards children’s self-esteem. The technique of data analysis was done using descriptive method speech acts theory by Kreidler (1998), parenting style theory by Baumrind (1967) and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in Shintya (2013). Based on Bad Moms movie, the use of directive utterances in the authoritative parenting style support the hearer to do something, by doing something, the children become independent. The use of directive utterances helps the hearer to reduce miscommunication and improve the effective communication.

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