Tourism domain requires its actors not only to well communicate using foreign languages but also understand the proper politeness strategies. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative research is to figure out the best tourism actors’ linguistic politeness strategies to the Japanese tourists in Kuta beach....

Ethnic Java of Panaragan is an ethnic group in Ponorogo society. In Ponorogo society has a customary figure named warok, in the art of reyog, warok as the leader of the reyog community. As an art that requires courage, many warok use expressions speech act to express a flattery as an appreciation of...

The objective of this research is to describe various strategies of linguistic politeness used by entertainment service users (penanggap) and performers in negotiation for Javanese karawitan art entertainment service procurement in Surakarta region. The politeness strategies employed by the penanggap...

Linguistic Politeness is the act of a person in speaking which respect others according to the prevailing norm in the society. In Javanese society, a person is categorized as polite speaker when the person can use degree of Javanese speech correctly. The ability of a speaker using the degree of Javanese...

Chinese have their own language system to address other people in their society, and so have Javanese. The different forms of addressing terms are significant because it is the most vivid way to reveal the social relationship of the people in their society. The different ways of using address forms can...

This study aims to describe the form and function of speech acts values in student-teacher communication, both in the classroom when the learning activities take place or in the school environment that is outside the classroom. This research was conducted by using qualitative descriptive approach. From...

This article describes the realization of speech acts suggestion expressed by the Islamic preachers (da’i(-s)) in responding to the questioners' (mad'u) questions. The data were obtained by employing the methods of nonparticipative-observation and recording method. The data analysis used the method of...

Complaints are all utterances that are born out of misery. Therefore, the complaints of IMWs in HK are intended as utterances that show the sorrow of the IMWs. The aim of this research is to find out forms of complaints shown by the IMWs relating to the behavior of their husbands who are staying in Indonesia....

This study discusses pragmatic skills of Sasak language speakers. It also studies the way the Sasak society present speech acts such as greeting, requesting, thanking and complaining in their daily interaction. For this purposes Ishihara & Cohen (2010) elucidate these speech acts tend to follow regular...

This study aims to find out the speech characteristics used by caregiver when serving elderly patients. The usage of appropriate speech related to selection of appropriate vocabulary and language. And also related to the use of speech level in Japanese, whether using keigo or futsuukei. This study also...

This study aims to identify the forms of language-based politeness when interacting with lecturers and other students in academic activities. The basic theory used in this research is the theory of speech acts according to Searle and the theory of politeness according to Leech (2014). This research includes...

This study projected the aim at focusing on the analysis on gender bias in textbook tasks and test-items in printed national examination documents as well as the students’ perception toward the bias. This study provides information about two issues: data sources and data analysis. The data were taken...

Film as one media of communication can deliver message to the audience. It has various genre which becomes interesting subject to investigate. The utterance on the film, especially children genre, which is used by the character can influence the language acquisition on children when they watch the film....

There are many studies on directive speech act from politeness perspective. However, those studies only focus on speaker’s perspective such as the form of speech, speech act strategy, and contextual influences on speech act choices in interpersonal relations.The attention which is relatively less given...

A conversation made by two people is known as dialogue. It is structured by means of adjacency pairs that may be analyzed under the umbrella of pragmatics (Yule, 2006). This study was aimed at: (1) identifying the structure of adjacency pairs in the dialogue between President Joko Widodo and Najwa Shihab...

Radio broadcast (broadcast) or better known as radio is one means of electronic communication used by the public to obtain information, send information and obtain entertainment that is auditive (Onong, 1990, p. 18). The purpose of this study is to know the type of expressive speech acts contained in...

Javanese speech community is culturally a collective society. Togetherness to maintain a social bond could be performed by giving phatic advice as the expression of sympathy by applying Javanese politeness principles (Gunarwan, 2007). Kinds and strategies of giving phatic advice in Javanese youngsters...