Illocutionary Acts of Minahasans Men and Women in the Family Conversation: A Sociopragmatic Study

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10.2991/icss-18.2018.180How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Illocutionary acts, men and women, minahasa, conversation, family

Abstract

As social beings, men and women in their daily activities always involve in conversations. Similarly, husband and wife in the family, in their interactions they use language to convey different kinds of information, ideas, opinions, suggestions, instructions, and appreciations. The aims of this research are to identify and explain the variety of illocutionary acts of men (as husband) and women (as wife) in the family conversation, and to explain also the ways of men and women perform the kinds of illocutionary acts in a family conversation. The data of this research are sentences, clauses, phrases, words, and special expressions in Manado Malay. The method of data collection in this research is the Listen-Involve-Speak Method (the Observation Method), with recording, note-taking, and elicitation techniques, as well as the Reflexive-Introspective Method and Interview Method. For the data selection the sampling technique is used, which is the purposive sampling. For the language data analysis, the understanding/interpretation technique is used. Furthermore, for the data confirmation, the snowball sampling technique is used. This technique involves informants. The results of this study show that in the family both men and women use the kinds of speech form namely words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and special expressions in Manado Malay which contain the various illocutionary acts. The illocutionary acts consist of asking a question about something, controlling, saying something, criticizing, complaining, refusing, telling to do something, asking for understanding, giving up, allowing (D1) ; asking for help, telling to do something, refusing, complaining, asking for understanding (D2) ; reprimanding, protesting, criticizing, blaming, giving advice, telling to do something, asking for understanding, asking for responsibility, telling to do something, encouraging, protest, looking for excuses, take off responsibility (D3). Besides, other illocutionary acts were also found, such as requesting information, saying honesty, dictate, give direction, nagging, grumbling, motivating, claiming, asserting, suggesting, encouraging, cornering, explaining, caring, convincing, ensuring, telling the truth, joking, offering the help, reminding, appreciating, apologizing, inspiring, etc.

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© 2018, 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  - Johanna Rimbing
AU  - Mister Gidion Maru
AU  - Jim Roni Tuna
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Illocutionary Acts of Minahasans Men and Women in the Family Conversation: A Sociopragmatic Study
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 873
EP  - 877
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icss-18.2018.180
DO  - 10.2991/icss-18.2018.180
ID  - Rimbing2018/10
ER  -