An Interlanguage Pragmatics Analysis

A Study of Apology Speech Act by Beginner and Intermediate Japanese Learners

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_21How to use a DOI?

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Apology speech act; Beginner Japanese Learners (BJL); Interlanguage Pragmatic (ILP); Intermediate Japanese Learners (IJL)

ABSTRACT

Apologies play an important part in maintaining a human relationship. The realization of the apology speech act is often culturally specific and challenging for most foreign or second language learners to master. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the apology speech act strategy used by Japanese language learners in a public university in Northern Bandung. The data were collected by using Discourse Completion Test (DCT) which investigated four apology situations focusing on relations with the interlocutors. The participants of this study were 30 beginner Japanese learners (BJL) and 30 intermediate Japanese learners (IJL). The collected data were then classified into eight semantic formulas and were analyzed qualitatively by using the theories from Fraser (1981), Olshtain and Cohen (1983) which have been modified by Haristiani and Sopiyanti (2019) in their research. The result showed that both beginner and intermediate Japanese learners use main similar strategies overall. They tend to express an apology directly (meikakuna shazai hyoumei), followed by responsibility (sekinin shounin). However, the frequency of using the offer of repair (hoshou no moushide) strategy by intermediate Japanese learners tends to increase when compared to beginner Japanese learners. The finding demonstrates that there is a development of pragmatic competence in line with the increasing level of learners.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Devy Christinawati
AU  - Nuria Haristiani
AU  - Sudjianto
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - An Interlanguage Pragmatics Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 135
EP  - 143
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_21
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_21
ID  - Christinawati2022
ER  -