Research Article
Repairing Interlocutor’s Mistakes in Selecting Speech Act in Laboratory Classes: A Case Study at Polytechnic Collage in Surakarta, Indonesia
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286900, author={Ratna Susanti and Sumarlam Sumarlam and Djatmika Djatmika and Muhammad Rohmadi}, title={Repairing Interlocutor’s Mistakes in Selecting Speech Act in Laboratory Classes: A Case Study at Polytechnic Collage in Surakarta, Indonesia}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Seminar and Workshop on Research Design, for Education, Social Science, Arts, and Humanities, SEWORD FRESSH 2019, April 27 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={SEWORD FRESSH}, year={2019}, month={9}, keywords={speech acts interlocutors mistake polytecnich collage}, doi={10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286900} }- Ratna Susanti
Sumarlam Sumarlam
Djatmika Djatmika
Muhammad Rohmadi
Year: 2019
Repairing Interlocutor’s Mistakes in Selecting Speech Act in Laboratory Classes: A Case Study at Polytechnic Collage in Surakarta, Indonesia
SEWORD FRESSH
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286900
Abstract
The setting in this study was in the pharmacy laboratory of Polytechnic Indonusa Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. In the laboratory classes, there are some students who make mistakes and violate procedures.This study aims to repairing interlocutor’s mistakes in selecting speech act in an academic situated interaction between student-students of Polytechnic collage, specifically to describe the pragmatic forces and the context following the use of speech acts. The participants were 80 (eighty) students. The study revealed that the pragmatic force on the studied data includes giving information, deciding, commanding, suggesting, challenging, influencing, rebuking, criticizing, and sarcasting. On the observed speech acts, the more indirect utterances were expressed, the stronger pragmatic force on speaking partners. The expressed polite language among the participants in the pharmacy laboratory interaction were realized through the maxim of generosity, agreement and tact maxim. The politeness scale mostly used by the students with fellow mediated by the maxim of sympathy.