Error and Communication Strategies Employed by Souvenirs’ Sellers at Sukarara Village

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10.2991/icollite-18.2019.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

error; communication strategies; souvenir’s sellers

Abstract

A speaker needs strategy in communication especially when they are making error in order to make the interlocutor understand and receive the message clearly. This study aims to discover (1) The error made by souvenir’s sellers in communicating with foreign visitors at Sukarara village, (2) factor caused the error, and (3) strategies employed by the souvenir’s sellers in encountering their problem in communication. This study used descriptive qualitative as its research design. Recording, observation, and interview were the techniques to collect the data. There were three sellers at Sukarara village that come from three different art shop as the sample of this study. The result of the study showed that (1) there are three kind of errors occurred in the conversation those were grammatical error, lexical error and contextual error, (2) factors that caused the error were seller’s lack of English vocabulary, seller’s lack of culture diversity, and Seller’s educational background, (3) the strategies employed by the sellers included code switching, body language, message abandonment and circumlocution.

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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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AU  - Akhmad Heri Tasliman
AU  - Nuriadi Nuriadi
AU  - Amrullah Amrullah
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Error and Communication Strategies Employed by Souvenirs’ Sellers at Sukarara Village
BT  - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 145
EP  - 148
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.31
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