Investigation of Students’ toward Environmental Awareness through Responses of Caring Speech Acts: A Case Study of Polytechnic’s Student in Surakarta, Indonesia

This study is aimed to investigates caring speech act in reminding of utterances used by students of polytechnic in Surakarta, Indonesia while in other’s wrongdoing in laboratory of pharmacy. This research was a qualitative study employing the pragmatics approach. The subjects comprised the 80 students pharmacy’s program study in Polytechnic Indonusa of Surakarta, Indonesia, deriving 5 male students and 75 female students participated in the study. The research data consist of three types, namely: (1) the data of speech act, (2) the data of observation note, and (3) the data of discourse completion test/DCTs. The first data obtained through observation techniques assisted recording using a handycam, the second data obtained through interviews, and the third data responses obtained from situation the written DCT. The datas were analyzed using the interactive analysis model by Miles and Huberman in three steps: (1) data reduction,(2) data display, and (3) conclusion finding and verification. According to the result, speech acts in reminding utterances used by students of polytechnic in Surakarta, Indonesia as responses in other’s wrongdoing are assertives, directives, commisives, and expressives