The Analysis of Booster Expression in Complaining Speech Act

DOI

10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

booster; expression; complaint speech acts; strategy

Abstract

Complaint speech act is part of expressive speech acts. However, these potentially threaten the face of the hearer. The speaker will use boosters expression in complaining strategy to express their emotion. Boosters expression as a linguistic marker is not only appeared in real life communication but also literary works. The issues are cultural differences and each language may have an effect of using it. Thus it raises a question of how booster expression used in complaining speech acts as a strategy to communicate between speaker and hearer in the novel. This paper aims to explore boosters expression in complaining speech acts used by the characters in the novel The A.B.C Murders written by Agatha Christie (1936). Data were the utterance made by the characters in the novel The A.B.C Murder. Data were taken by document analysis in classifying boosters expression in complaining speech acts. The results show that 1) there are fifteen characters used boosters expression in employing complaint speech acts, 2) Boosters’ expression form used by the characters in employing complaint speech acts are adjunct, comment adjunct, intrinsic booster, and fixed expression.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ilham Ilham
AU  - M.R. Nababan
AU  - Diah Kristina
AU  - Tri Wiratno
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - The Analysis of Booster Expression in Complaining Speech Act
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 344
EP  - 351
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.59
DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.59
ID  - Ilham2019/08
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