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A study on speech acts used by backstreet boys in Arjosari Malang
No full textABSTRACT
The study of language in society focuses on utterances produced by people in their daily conversation. The utterances, which arc spoken by people, intend ol act and always produce an act relates to the listener, this always called speech act.
The researcher focused on the kinds of speech act used by backstreet boys in Arjosari - malang which are analyzed viewed on Austin’s theory (see 2.1.1), they are Locutionary act, Illocutionary act and Perlocutionary act. While the function of speech act is analyzed viewed on Leech’s theory (see 2.1.3) In this case, the researcher focused on the Illocutionary act which has four function: Competitive,.،٩ convivial, collaborative and confiictive function. In other hand, the Locutionary act and Perlocutionary act have not function anymore.
The researcher uses the descriptive qualitative research in this study. The data are taken from the natural utterance which is produced by backstreet boys and the guide in the daily conversation in Arjosari-Malang. In this case, the researcher came him self to the backstreet boys area and became the main instrument by doing observation, interviewing, taking notes and recording in order to get the valid data. While the researcher uses triangulation in order to make this research perfect.
As the result of the research, the researcher finds all kinds of speech act used by backstreet boys and the Guide. They arelocutionaryact (54), Illocutionary act (42), and perlocutionary act (27). On the other hand, the researcher finds the function of speech act intended on Illocutionary act used by backstreet boys. They are Competitive Function (19), Convivial function (4)و Collaborative function (13) and conflictive function (2). On the contrary, the researcher does not find the function of locutionary ac and perlocutionary act in this research because basically, both of them have no function.
Based on the result above, it can be indicated that the backstreet boys often use the Illocutionary act in their daily conversation that mostly use competitive function such as; asking act, ordering act and demanding act.
Finally, the researcher suggests to further researcher who intend in the social research especially in sociolinguistic area in order to continue and increase the , research on Backstreet boys’ phenomena through other perspective. Because there are so many phenomena related to the Backstreet boys that need to investigated and researched
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GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY AND LEXICAL DENSITY IN THE TEXTS OF ENGLISH HANDBOOK AT PRIVATE ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL IN MEDAN
Full text linkAbstract: This study aimed to find out the problems occur in the grammatical complexity of the narrative and descriptive texts in English Handbook used by the Private Islamic Junior High School in Medan especially in Grade VII, VIII, and IX. The lower level should have the text written in simple sentences more than the higher one while the compound and complex sentences were suitable for the higher level. However, the findings showed that the percentage of the simple sentences used in the narrative texts of Grade VII, VIII, and IX was 33.9%, 60% and 50%. The percentage of compound sentences used in the narrative texts of Grade VII, VIII, and IX was 33.3%, 4% and 16.7% while the percentage of complex sentences used in the narrative texts of Grade VII, VIII, and IX was 27.8%, 36% and 13.3%. For the descriptive text, the percentage of simple sentences used in the descriptive texts of Grade VII, VIII, and IX was 25%, 69.2%, and 53.8%. The percentage of compound sentences used in the descriptive texts of Grade VII, VIII, and IX was 31.25%, 15.4%, and 23.1% while the percentage of complex sentences used in the descriptive texts of Grade VII, VIII, and IX was 43.75%, 15.4%, and 23.1%. Therefore, the selection of the text was grammatically inappropriate
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