Promoting Character Education: Speech Acts of Requests in Javanese Language Used by Tanjung Community

Abstract

A directive speech acts covers an expression of requests, which is mostly used by people in communication. This study aims to reveal speech acts of requests conveyed by people in Tanjung Village, Trenggalek, Indonesia. This study used ethnography research design with an approach of Levinson's theory. Data were collected through a listening and speaking method. The obtained data were then analyzed using categorization and descriptive method, of which the significant data were presented using informal method. Results showed that there were three speech acts of requests in regard to the delivery method namely blaka langsung, blaka ora langsung, and ora blaka langsung. Another finding portrayed that there were four categories of speech acts of requests based on hearer's views namely katampa katindakake, katampa ora katindakake, katampik katindakake, and katampik ora katindakake. This study recommends the use of Javanese speech acts of requests to be taught for students to experience local values such as respecting others as a part of character education.

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“…Third, Mahmud (2019b) discusses the speech act in the context of local wisdom in Makassar. Fourth, speech act research in the context of daily conversation done by Surana et al(2019) that discusses concerning the use of speech act in functioning for the asking uttered by the speaker of Javanese language in Trenggalek Regency. From these four previous research, it can be concluded that the speech act theory was used in various research contexts and purposes.…”