Imperative Speech Acts in Public Interests in Pandemic Covid in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.077How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Imperative speech, public appeal, pragmatics

Abstract

Since WHO declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, various efforts have been made by many parties, both the government and the community to deal with Covid-19 in Indonesia. Public understanding of the information conveyed will affect their way of thinking, taste, and behavior. This will have an impact on the decision to do or not do something as contained in the appeal. This paper aims to describe the form of speech and appeal functions made by the government and the community in handling COVID-19 in Indonesia. Data in the form of a speech appeal handling Covid-19 in Indonesia were obtained from brochures, posters, flyers published on the internet. The method used is the pragmatic equivalent method. The results show that public appeal speech handling COVID-19 in Indonesia had three forms of speech, namely (1) declarative sentence, (2) interrogative sentence, and (3) imperative sentence. Based on its function there are 11 meanings of imperative speech public appeal of handling COVID-19 in Indonesia, namely (1) notification appeal, (2) advice appeal, (3) order appeal, (4) prohibition appeal, (5) request appeal, (6) promise appeal, (7) offering appeal, (8) sentence appeal, (9) punishment appeal, (10) persuasion appeal, and (11) reminding appeal.

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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  - Nanik Sumarsih
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - Imperative Speech Acts in Public Interests in Pandemic Covid in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 490
EP  - 498
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.077
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.077
ID  - Sumarsih2020
ER  -