Promoting Character Education: Speech Acts of Requests in Javanese Language Used by Tanjung Community

DOI

10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Speech acts of requests, directive speech acts, hearer’s response, social context.

Abstract

A directive speech acts covers an expression of requests, which is mostly used by people in communication. This study aims to reveal speech acts of requests conveyed by people in Tanjung Village, Trenggalek, Indonesia. This study used ethnography research design with an approach of Levinson’s theory. Data were collected through a listening and speaking method. The obtained data were then analyzed using categorization and descriptive method, of which the significant data were presented using informal method. Results showed that there were three speech acts of requests in regard to the delivery method namely blaka langsung, blaka ora langsung, and ora blaka langsung. Another finding portrayed that there were four categories of speech acts of requests based on hearer’s views namely katampa katindakake, katampa ora katindakake, katampik katindakake, and katampik ora katindakake. This study recommends the use of Javanese speech acts of requests to be taught for students to experience local values such as respecting others as a part of character education.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Surana
AU  - Yohan Susilo
AU  - Lutfi ‘Ami Rosidah
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Promoting Character Education: Speech Acts of Requests in Javanese Language Used by Tanjung Community
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 277
EP  - 284
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.45
DO  - 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.45
ID  - 2019/08
ER  -