Male and Female Mitigation in Institutional Conversation Setting: Viewed from the Strategies in Speech Acts

Fatma, Sumarlam, Sarwiji Suwandi, Ani Rakhmawati

2018

Abstract

As a multidisciplinary field, pragmatics tries to explain meaning and language structure by refering to aspects beyond the language itself. Phenomena in using language still demands an investigation on sociopragmatic field completely. This research aims to investigate how academic society choose and utilize mitigation in using speech acts especially directive speech acts. Besides investigating the mitigation marker, the researcher also consider local language elements as a choice of communication strategy to show honor, intimacy, and other values. Mitigation choice used in the context of interaction between male and female becomes singular uniqeness in this field since it involves how they try to understand each other linguistically. This research uses sociopragmatic approach with descriptive qualitative as the method. Based on the use of linguistic strategies, several variables are found: (1) social distance between locutor and interlocutor determined based on the general variable, socio-economic background, and culture; (2) social stratification between locutor and interlocutor, (3) difference of mitigation between male and female in academic situation. The use of mitigation is not only about the locutor’s choices to treat the interlocutor, but also about a reflection of social causes and psychological causes which resemble the character in expressing language. Through language, moral and value and behavior can be expressed; it includes saying thank you, discussing with someone older or younger, and replying someone in academic situation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fatma., Sumarlam., Suwandi S. and Rakhmawati A. (2018). Male and Female Mitigation in Institutional Conversation Setting: Viewed from the Strategies in Speech Acts. In Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS, ISBN 978-989-758-470-1, pages 237-243. DOI: 10.5220/0009019200002297

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bicess18,
author={Fatma and Sumarlam and Sarwiji Suwandi and Ani Rakhmawati},
title={Male and Female Mitigation in Institutional Conversation Setting: Viewed from the Strategies in Speech Acts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS,},
year={2018},
pages={237-243},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009019200002297},
isbn={978-989-758-470-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS,
TI - Male and Female Mitigation in Institutional Conversation Setting: Viewed from the Strategies in Speech Acts
SN - 978-989-758-470-1
AU - Fatma.
AU - Sumarlam.
AU - Suwandi S.
AU - Rakhmawati A.
PY - 2018
SP - 237
EP - 243
DO - 10.5220/0009019200002297