The Use of Language Features in English Department Students’ Conversations

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200129.153How to use a DOI?

Keywords

communication, deixis, hedges, conversation, polytechnic

Abstract

Language is a tool to exchange our ideas, and its role grows more significant that makes our communication better and more interesting, so that communication has higher value to analyse. To make our communication more compelling, and lively, we can use language features to be ‘played’, and they might be’ installed’ without being realized by us in the room of communication. The use of language features is important, so students have to know how to apply them in their spoken, and for that reason, the research entitled: The use of Language Features in English department Students’ Conversations was conducted. The aims of the research are: The first is to identify language features used in conversation of English students. The second is, to analyse the function of each language feature mostly used by them, and this research used qualitative method. After all the data have been analysed, it could be concluded that there are 4 language features used mostly in students’ utterances, namely: deixis (128 times) adjacency pairs (80 times), then discourse markers (78 times) and hedges (72 times). Those four language features are used mostly because they can create natural utterance such as: expressing hesitation, softening face threatening act (FTAs), showing surprise and others. However, some students still made mistake of using them. From the result, it could be concluded also that students need to be taught Introduction to Linguistics to be applied more in Speaking, Writing and Reading.

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© 2020, 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  - Ratna Padmi Trihartanti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/05
TI  - The Use of Language Features in English Department Students’ Conversations
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Learning Innovation and Quality Education (ICLIQE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1248
EP  - 1261
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200129.153
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200129.153
ID  - Trihartanti2020
ER  -