Expressive Speech Acts of Women’s Communication on Facebook

DOI

10.2991/klua-18.2018.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Expressive Speech Acts, Facebook, Women Communication

Abstract

Women communication is always interesting to discuss. Facebook as a media of communication is the most famous sosial media used by the women. In early 2012 the user of facebook in Indonesia is 40.6 % women. It can be imagined that women communication on facebook has complexity. This study covers expresive speech acts among adult women in facebook. It is a qualitative study. The subjects were adult women at age of 25-35 years. The purposes of the research are: (1) to describe the expresive speech acts used by the adult women when communicating in facebook, (2) to idintify the function of expresive speech acts used by the adult women in facebook. The data were collected through observation, interview, and documentation. The primary data are the utterances of the adult women when up dating status and commenting on facebook. The design of this study is content analysis. The data were analyzed by Simak, Libat, Cakap instrument. The data were read and analyzed to describe the expresive speech act based on Kreidler's theory. Then they were identified as the function of the utterances. To dig more information the researcher participated in facebook activities such as commenting and giving the emoticon. Moreover, the interview was also conducted to achieve the goal of the research. Credibility test was done through extended observation and member checks. It is found that 6,88 % utterances are in the form of expresive speech acts. The function of expresive speech act indicates thanking, apologizing, blaming, praising, and wailing.

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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  - Rosita Ambarwati
AU  - Joko Nurkamto
AU  - Riyadi Santosa
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Expressive Speech Acts of Women’s Communication on Facebook
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 106
EP  - 109
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/klua-18.2018.15
DO  - 10.2991/klua-18.2018.15
ID  - Ambarwati2018/07
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