Phatic Advice Giving of Javanese Youngsters in Friendship Domain as A Politeness Strategy to Tie a Union

DOI

10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

phatic; advice giving; Javanese students; consolation; politeness

Abstract

Javanese speech community is culturally a collective society. Togetherness to maintain a social bond could be performed by giving phatic advice as the expression of sympathy by applying Javanese politeness principles (Gunarwan, 2007). Kinds and strategies of giving phatic advice in Javanese youngsters are the focus of this research. The method of collecting data for this research is distributing Discourse Completion Tasks (DCT) to 100 respondents. Then, in-depth interview with the informants is conducted as well to verify the data from the DCT. The respondents and the informants are university students in Madiun who are the native speakers of Javanese. The result of the research shows that the kinds of phatic advice are suggestion, prohibition, and support with peculiar characteristics which are different from the characteristics of a directive speech act of the previous theories (Searle, 1969, Kreidler 1998). The strategies of giving phatic advice consist of reassuring, complimenting, encouraging, stating common things, sharing common experiences, warning, and insinuating. Apparently, the act of advice giving in Javanese youngsters community is not mainly intended to give a problem solving but more about showing politeness by expressing sympathy. Therefore, the advice giving is categorized as phatic as it only performs to maintain social relationship and friendship among the members of the society. Consolation is the main feature of phatic advice giving in Javanese culture.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuli Widiana
AU  - Sumarlam Sumarlam
AU  - Sri Marmanto
AU  - Dwi Purnanto
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Phatic Advice Giving of Javanese Youngsters in Friendship Domain as A Politeness Strategy to Tie a Union
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 449
EP  - 454
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.83
DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.83
ID  - Widiana2018/08
ER  -