Prosody and Particles: A Study of Interaction in a Malaysian Academic Meeting

Don, Zuraidah Mohd; Tam, Shu Sim

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“…The use of these fillers could be categorized as hedges which according to Fraser (2010) are "words and expressions in the forms of modals, fillers, tag questions, that can attenuate the force of the speech acts and to express the levels of uncertainty towards the propositions in the utterances". These fillers could also be categorized as discourse markers or discourse particles which serve important functions as communicative tools (Ahmed & Maros, 2017;Don & Sim, 2016Nor, 2012. In terms of Brown and Levinson's politeness strategies (1987), using these fillers can become ways to be conventionally indirect which may create politeness.…”

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The use of politeness strategies in the classroom context by English university students

Mahmud

2019

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Politeness still becomes a major concern in English language teaching. It is considered as one way to maintain effective classroom interaction. Therefore, as one of the important actors in the class, teachers, and students need to practice politeness as a way to create effective classroom interaction. This study aims to explore the politeness strategies of English students at one of the universities in Makassar. The researcher applied a descriptive qualitative research method to explore the politeness phenomena in EFL classroom interaction. The participants of this research were two classes of English literature program consisting of 50 students. The primary sources of data were the individual student presentations which had been recorded. There were fifty transcriptions of the recording which lasted for five to seven minutes for each presentation. The transcriptions were analyzed and discussed based on the theory of politeness of Brown and Levinson (1987). The findings from this study revealed that English students used different kinds of expressions to encode their politeness in the class. Those expressions were in the forms of greetings, thanking, addressing terms, apologizing, and fillers. There were also some terms derived from students’ vernacular language which were used as a softening mechanism for their presentation. These expressions were categorized as positive and negative politeness. The findings of this study might be used as an input for teachers and students in an effort to create effective classroom interaction.

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The use of politeness strategies in the classroom context by English university students

Mahmud

2019

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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The Syllabification of High Vowels in the Kerinci Language: An Autosegmental Phonological Analysis

Rusli

Aziz

2022

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The aim of this article is to explain the syllabification of high vowels /i/ and /u/ at the nucleus position in the Kerinci language. In this language, the high vowels /i/ and /u/ at the nucleus position will undergo changes - for example, /i/, /u/, /is/ and /us/ will be realized as [aj], [aw], [ajh] and [awh]. In order to explain the phonological processes, each problem was analyzed using the theory of autosegmental phonology (Goldsmith, 1976, 1990). There are three processes involved in the theory, namely linking, delinking and features spreading. The phonological modifications involving the high vowels can be adequately explained based on the process of syllabification that is couched in the CV skeletal model of McCarthy (1981). The data for this study were obtained through three different methods, namely library research, observation and interviews. The instruments used in this study were a recorder, questionnaires and notebooks. The informants selected for this study comprised five men and women who are aged 50 years and above, who are native speakers of Kerinci Semerap dialect, and were born in Kabupaten Kerinci, West Sumatera, Indonesia. However, they have been living in Kampung Batu 21 Sungai Lui, Hulu Langat, Selangor, for more than 30 years. The finding showed that the high vowels /i/ and /u/ at the nucleus of word final syllable are linked to the coda nodes and surfaces as the glides [j] and [w]. Thus, the analysis of the syllabification of high vowels at the coda position explains the application of vowel [a] in the output of words such as [mã.taj] “dead”, [sa.taw] “one”, [tu.lajh] “write” and [lu.rawh] “straight” based on the CV skeletal model of McCarthy (1981).

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Prosody and Particles: A Study of Interaction in a Malaysian Academic Meeting

Abstract: This article examines prosody in interaction in

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The use of politeness strategies in the classroom context by English university students

The use of politeness strategies in the classroom context by English university students

The Syllabification of High Vowels in the Kerinci Language: An Autosegmental Phonological Analysis

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