Argumentation Strategies of the Early Childhood Language in the Gender Perspective

Siti Salamah, Emzir, Fathiaty Murtadho

2019

Abstract

The way children view the world is a process of thinking critically that reflected through language expressions that can be seen from pragmatic strategy in giving argumentation. To date, the study on child’s language in Indonesian is only focused on the form and structure of argumentative sentences. Meanwhile, the study that is focused on child’s language viewed from gender perspective has not yet been conducted significantly, especially that is related to the argumentation strategy. Hence, the study of this paper will be focused on child’s pragmatic strategy reviewed from gender perspective. The subject and object of this study covered the use of sentence on children aged 5-6 years old. The study applied descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected using participated and non-participated observation methods. The data then were analyzed using the pragmatic match method. The result of this study shows that there were some differences between the boys and girls reviewed from the frequency intensity of the uttered argumentation types and the pragmatic strategy in expressing intention. The girls had better abilities in qualitative and comparison-typed argumentations. On the other hand, the boys were better in analogy-typed argumentations. Either the boys or girls had equal ability in argumentations type quantity and expert opinion. In the use of pragmatic strategy, the boys used more representative strategy than the girls. In contrast, the girls were skilled in arguing using control, expressive, and social strategies than the boys.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Salamah S., Murtadho F. and Emzir. (2019). Argumentation Strategies of the Early Childhood Language in the Gender Perspective.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS, ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, pages 447-455. DOI: 10.5220/0009001304470455

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icels19,
author={Siti Salamah and Fathiaty Murtadho and Emzir},
title={Argumentation Strategies of the Early Childhood Language in the Gender Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,},
year={2019},
pages={447-455},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009001304470455},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,
TI - Argumentation Strategies of the Early Childhood Language in the Gender Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Salamah S.
AU - Murtadho F.
AU - Emzir.
PY - 2019
SP - 447
EP - 455
DO - 10.5220/0009001304470455