Rusabesi Community’s English Language and Communication Patterns

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language pattern, communication pattern, horizontal communication, interference, first language

Abstract

The research focused on how English language and communication patterns used by a community affected the way its members socialize with their peers and other people. As the research data were utterances and sentences used by Rusabesi Community members in their everyday communication, we conducted an observation and interview with some of them to find more accurate data. All data were qualitatively analysed using the concepts of language and communication pattern. The research showed that Rusabesi Community members mostly communicated with others using indirect speech patterns and informal languages as what they did in their first language. These patterns eased the tension that laid between the senior and junior members. This community also used the horizontal communication pattern in conveying meaning or messages to the others because the pattern supported teamwork which was considered more effective. In addition, they also found it was more convenient when they communicated using some visual media, such as pictures and other realia especially in semi-formal discussion. This led to conclude that Rusabesi Community members’ first language interfered their English utterances or sentences in their everyday communication, but they still maintained the horizontal communication pattern to have more intimate communication interaction.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhammad Farkhan
AU  - Kesha Lariesa
AU  - Alya Nadyasmara Kamal
AU  - Shafira Kautsar Mahdi
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Rusabesi Community’s English Language and Communication Patterns
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 32
EP  - 36
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icclas-18.2019.9
DO  - 10.2991/icclas-18.2019.9
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