A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND JAVANESE SOCIAL DEIXIS (SOCIO-PRAGMATICS STUDY)
This research studies the form and elements of English and Javanese social deixis. The objects of this research are the English and Javanese social deixis words. The data source of the English social deixis words come from three movie manuscripts of Man in The Iron Mask, Gladiator, and 1492...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English English English English English English English |
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.ac.id/10663/ |
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| Summary: | This research studies the form and elements of English and Javanese social
deixis. The objects of this research are the English and Javanese social deixis
words. The data source of the English social deixis words come from three movie
manuscripts of Man in The Iron Mask, Gladiator, and 1492 Conquest of Paradise.
The data source of the Javanese language come from the radio play manuscripts of
RRI Surakarta entitled ‘Kang Dadi Telenging Ati’ episodes 7 (Wednesday,
November 15 2006), 8 (Wednesday, November 22 2006) and 9 (Wednesday,
November 29 2006).
In gathering the data the writer uses the observation and the documentation
methods. The prime objectives of this research are the first is to find the form of
and then is to describe the elements in the use of English and Javanese social
deixis. In order to obtain the objectives mentioned, the writer gathers the data
from certain interaction English language, while the Javanese data is gathered
through the excerpts of conversation in the radio play manuscript. Then the data
from both languages are compared in accordance to their forms and elements they
construct. To come across with the forms of social deixis, the writer refers to the
relational and absolute social deixis. Afterwards, the writer uses the Face Strategy
to elucidate the elements of the English and Javanese social deixis.
Derived from the results of this research, the writer found that there are no
relational social deixis forms in English language. in contrast, the Javanese
language implies the use of relational social deixis, reflected by the use of speech
level of ngoko ‘low’, krama madya ‘refined’, and krama inggil ‘most refined’
variants. The most frequent elements in both languages are the hierarchical face
strategy. Moreover, the elements entailed in Javanese language are determined by
the speaker’s social rank, while the English entailed the similar as well. |
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