THE STUDY OF SUGGESTORY SPEECH ACT STRATEGIES BY INDONESIAN STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Windy Arman, - (2012) THE STUDY OF SUGGESTORY SPEECH ACT STRATEGIES BY INDONESIAN STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. S1 thesis, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia.

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate the most common strategies of suggestory speech act performed by Indonesian students learning English as a foreign language. The subjects of the study were 20 of third year students at English Education Department of UPI. The data were collected through Discourse Completion Test (DCT) and interviews. All the data gathered were analyzed by applying the framework of Flor (2005) and Brown-Levinson’s (1987) theory. The findings showed that students employed different strategies of suggestion. In this study, there were 12 suggestion strategies analyzed, i.e. performative verbs, noun of “suggestion”, imperatives, negative imperatives, the use of specific formulae (the interrogative forms), possibility or probability expressions with the use of modal verbs, the verb “should” utilization, the verb “need” utilization, the use of the conditional, the use of hints, the use of different impersonal forms, and obligation form. However, the most common strategy used was the use of hints strategy of indirect type which implies that the students tend to protect the hearer’s status by softening the superiority in giving a suggestion. The second common pattern used was the use of specific formulae of conventionalized forms type which indicates that the speaker is likely to let the hearer decide whether to take the suggestions or not. While the third common pattern used was the utilization of verb “should” of conventionalized forms type which implies a quite weak obligation from the speaker to the hearer. In this study, the influence of such social variables as age (A), gender (G), setting (L), social distances (D), power (P) and ranking of imposition (R) were also observed in students’ suggestion utterances. However, the result of the study described that only age, power, and ranking of imposition were the considerable influence on the strategy choices

Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Additional Information:	ID Sinta Dosen Pembimbing: R Dian Dia-an : 5978405
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Suggestory Speect Act, Foreign Language, English Education Department
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra > Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	Nanda Khaerunnisa Syafitri
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2023 12:29
Last Modified:	06 Jul 2023 12:29
URI:	http://repository.upi.edu/id/eprint/91566

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