Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)

Imperative Speech Acts in Public Interests in Pandemic Covid in Indonesia

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Nanik Sumarsih
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Nanik Sumarsih
Available Online 17 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201215.077How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Imperative speech, public appeal, pragmatics
Abstract

Since WHO declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, various efforts have been made by many parties, both the government and the community to deal with Covid-19 in Indonesia. Public understanding of the information conveyed will affect their way of thinking, taste, and behavior. This will have an impact on the decision to do or not do something as contained in the appeal. This paper aims to describe the form of speech and appeal functions made by the government and the community in handling COVID-19 in Indonesia. Data in the form of a speech appeal handling Covid-19 in Indonesia were obtained from brochures, posters, flyers published on the internet. The method used is the pragmatic equivalent method. The results show that public appeal speech handling COVID-19 in Indonesia had three forms of speech, namely (1) declarative sentence, (2) interrogative sentence, and (3) imperative sentence. Based on its function there are 11 meanings of imperative speech public appeal of handling COVID-19 in Indonesia, namely (1) notification appeal, (2) advice appeal, (3) order appeal, (4) prohibition appeal, (5) request appeal, (6) promise appeal, (7) offering appeal, (8) sentence appeal, (9) punishment appeal, (10) persuasion appeal, and (11) reminding appeal.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
17 December 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.201215.077
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201215.077How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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