Compliment response to a speaker is not a simple task. It often makes speaker in a problematic position among receivers either avoiding disagreement or refraining from implying self-praise. The interesting is that people in every culture background getting involved in this dilema try to find out a way that is able to minimize the potential of making inconvenience by proposing several strategies. The strategies are mainly determined by the culture of the speaker. In Javanese culture, people believe that the good way in establishing relationship with others is being modesty. Javanese have special term for this act, namely andhap ashor. This article aims in explaining the choice of strategies by Javanese. This will reveal the way of Javanese think. The data were collected by the use of observation supported by recording and note-taking technique, and interview. The results shows there are three macro strategies, namely agrreement, nonagreement and request interpretation. These three, then, are broken down into several micro strategies. The choice is based on the obedience to the politeness principles in Javanese circumtances

This thesis deals with how readers understand the sequences of event and time displacement in the literary works especially short story. Temporal deixis, as one of deixis types, have an important role along with tense to help readers understand the story. This thesis identifies the sequences of event, describes time displacement and sequence event in short story by using temporal deixis and tense, and explains the use of temporal deixis in short stories. The result shows that four selected short stories contain temporal deixis and change of tense. In conclusion, the four selected short stories contain temporal deixis and change of tense to signify time displacement from present to past and vice versa.Keywords: temporal deixis; time displacement; sequences of event; tense; short story

The use of social media in communication changes the way people express the idea represented through their language. This study aims to seek for the form of communication patterns in social media and to reveal causes of specific pattern language usage found in media, especially in office domain. The study was conducted using descriptive qualitative by describing the results of observations, interviews, and documentation. The data were collected by non-participatory observation method and note taking technique. Based on the results of the analysis of the data, it can be concluded that the communication patterns are realized in the form of: (1) various forms of language which do not meet the standard language, (2) the use of other non-verbal representations, such as emoticon, and (3) ecrononciation, that is, writing the spoken language. The choice of utterances is affected by relative status, social distance and range of imposition. As communicating to others, most utterances represent the obedience to politeness maxim, namely be friendly (sumanak), be considerate (tepa slira), suitable topic to event (empan papan), and pleasant voice true and good temper (nuju prana).

Laesan is a traditional art that comes from the word “laesun” which means “suwung” or empty. In the show, it tells the story of a human being from the womb to return to the grave which is told through a dance accompanied by songs according to the session. This study aims to describe the relationship between humans and elements of communication and communicative actions in the cultural event of laesan performance. This research applied a qualitative descriptive approach with ethnographic studies of communication. The research data were in the form of fragments of speech and actions involved in laesan performing arts. The research method was ethnographic and participatory. The results show that laesan art communication has a communication system related to the sequence of GASKENPI components. The forms of messages in laesan art are mantras and song lyrics. The act of communication in laesan art is divided into two: (1) the act of communication between laesan players and the empty atmosphere of the universe, (2) the act of communication between laesan players and the audience. These two forms of communication have functions related to environmental preservation which include the songs entitled Ella Ello, Bandhan, Luruo Sintren, and Santrine Dodol Gambir.

Communication plays an essential role for humans in making great conversations where some addressee forms are used by the speakers to give respect to others. The researcher discusses how 20th-century society represents the usage of the addressee form in showing honor or relationship to their interlocutors using social deixis theory by Levinson and social dimensions by Holmes. The study aims to demonstrate the social deixis types used and its reference meaning and explain how external factors influence social deixis forms in Downton Abbey and Made in Dagenham movies set in 20th century. This study focuses on the pragmatic approach conveying the use of linguistic choices by all movie characters. The research design includes the descriptive qualitative type. In collecting the data, the researcher uses non-participatory observation. This research shows that the relational and absolute social deixis type existed in the movie characters' utterances in 20th-century society. However, the Authorized Speaker type of absolute social deixis is not found in both movies. Beside that, this study discovers all components of social dimensions that could figure the social factors which influenced the characters' addressee forms: solidarity, relative status, formality, and two functional scales.Keywords: social deixis, pragmatics, movie, social dimension, social factor