Ambiguity and Communicative Strategy in Japanese Story Retelling

DOI

10.2991/soshec-19.2019.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ambiguity, ambiguity factors, communicative strategy, Japanese, communicative competence.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe and explain the trigger of ambiguity factors in Japanese story retell toward 5 students in the third and fourth semesters. It also aims to find out the communicative strategy which is used during the communication. The data was gathered through semi-structured interviews using illustration pictures as elicit media, after that the conversation was being recorded and transcribed. The data analysis was transformational generative grammar. The results of the analysis show that the trigger of ambiguity factors was the aspect of language competence which is vocabulary mastery and grammar, the complexity level of sentence structures, and the cognitive aspects. Meanwhile, the communicative strategies were reduction strategy and achievement strategy. This study is beneficial to develop communicative competence in Japanese language teaching.

Copyright

© 2019, 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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AU  - Mintarsih
AU  - Didik Nurhadi
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DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Ambiguity and Communicative Strategy in Japanese Story Retelling
BT  - Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and  Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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