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REPRESENTATION OF INDONESIAN SPEECH ACTIVITIES IN CLASSROOM LEARNING: A STUDY OF COMMUNICATION ETHNOGRAPHY

Date Published : 30 May 2025

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Sulistyawati, Nawawi

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Indonesian speech acts politeness strategies classroom communication communication ethnography pragmatics.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR AND UNDERGRADUATE PAPER (IWUP) 2025

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General Track

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Abstract

This article describes a research study that was conducted to describe and clarify politeness in speech acts using Indonesian in the talk done during a lesson in the classroom of Bahasa Indonesia at University of Prof. Dr HAMKA, Jakarta, with a focus on representations of (1) the forms of politeness in the speech acts, (2) the functions of politeness in the speech acts, and (3) the strategies of using politeness in the speech acts. It was a case study that began with communication ethnography and pragmatics. The data was divided into two categories: data from utterances and data from field notes. An interactive model of analysis was used to analyze the two types of data collected through recordings, observations, and interviews. The study's findings are as follows: First, it is discovered that (a) such representations in Indonesian use the declarative, interrogative, and imperative modes, (b) the declarative mode represents command, request, advice, and praise, (c) the interrogative mode represents requesting, asking for what students have promised, clarifying whether students have understood, and giving a warning, and (d) the imperative mode represents giving a warning, (f) utterances in the interrogative mode, on the other hand, tend to strengthen the illocution power, making the utterances appear less polite. Second, it is discovered that (a) the functions of politeness in directive acts consist of requesting, permitting, advising, commanding, and forbidding functions and (b) the functions of politeness in expressive acts consist of praising and thanking functions in the context of representations of the functions of speech-act politeness. Third, it is discovered that (a) utterances can be direct, realized in complete imperative form and imperative form with incomplete phrase, and (b) utterances can be indirect by (1) being with expressions of politeness used in a positive way, (2) being with expressions of politeness used in a negative way, and (3) being unclear in the context of representations of the strategies of speech-act politeness.

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Sulistyawati, Nawawi, S. N. (2025). REPRESENTATION OF INDONESIAN SPEECH ACTIVITIES IN CLASSROOM LEARNING: A STUDY OF COMMUNICATION ETHNOGRAPHY. Proceedings UHAMKA, 3(1). https://conferences.uhamka.ac.id/uhamka/paper/view/190