THE ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS OF INTERNET SLANG IN THESTUDENTROOM.COM FORUM

Ganjar Maulana63708004

INTRODUCTION

Background to the Study Internet slang phrases have become common

and popular expression for communicating internet user’s intention

Internet slang phrases can be used in declarative, interrogative, or imperative structure

Internet slang is used to express feeling, to make statement, to insult other people, etc.

Structure and function of internet slang phrases make a kind of relation: Direct speech acts

e.g. TBH is used in declarative to make personal statement Indirect speech acts

e.g. TMI is used in declarative to give an order

The writer is interested in analyzing them since they are used by the speaker to convey the intention in various way.

INTRODUCTION

Research Question What speech acts’ types may be identified on

the basis of structure from the chosen data? What speaker communicative intentions may be

interpreted?

Objectives To investigate the speech acts’ types based on

the structure from the chosen data To investigate speaker communicative intention

when using the internet slang phrases

INTRODUCTION

THEORETICAL REVIEW

Speech Acts Locutionary act Illocutionary act Perlocutionary act

Types of speech acts: Based on structure

Declarative Interrogative Imperative

Based on function/intention Assertives Expressives Directives Commissives Declaration

THEORETICAL REVIEW

Types of relationship Direct speech acts

Communicating the literal meaning that the word conventionally express

The structure and the function are directly related.

Indirect speech acts Communicating a same meaning as literal meaning,

but means something more as well. The structure and the function are not directly related.

THEORETICAL REVIEW

RESEARCH OBJECT AND METHOD

Research Object Various threads in thestudentroom.com forum

from September 2011 until February 2012

Research Method Analytic descriptive

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Data 1

“TBH I think that Capello should drop him from the tournament. He needs to be heavily punished by UEFA too, he deliberately kicked someone in trying to injure them.

If it was someone against Wayne or any of the rest of the England squad we'd all be calling for a lengthy ban.”

Analysis TBH (to be honest) is used when someone wants

to make personal statement Based on the speech event, TBH is a statement

from the speaker who thinks that Capello should drop Rooney from the tournament.

Thus, it can be classified into direct assertive since there is a direct relationship between structure and communicative function

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Data 2

“Stupid about Gerrard. But tbh he had a tight hamstring a few weeks ago didn't he...

We need to beat Arsenal and I can't see us doing it at all.”

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Analysis TBH (to be honest) is used when someone wants

to make personal statement Based on the speech event, TBH is not used as

statement, but it is used to make excuse of Gerrard’s poor performance.

Thus, it can be classified into indirect directives since there is an indirect relationship between structure and communicative function.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

Conclusions There are 2 types of speech acts identified based

on the structure of data; they are direct and indirect speech acts.

Direct speech acts consist of 3 communicative intention: assertives, commissives, and expressives.

Indirect speech acts consist of 3 communicative intention: directives, assertives, and expressives.

Suggestions Analyzing the reason leading the speaker to use

direct and indirect speech acts Analyzing direct and indirect speech acts in other

kind of internet forum

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

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