Seminar Linguistic
SEMINAR ON LINGUISTICS
AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT AND MAXIMS OF CONVERSATION
USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST MOVIE
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language has a social function as a tool to make connection between human beings. Without language, it seems impossible for people to interact with others in their daily life because language can express people’s feeling, willing, and opinion. In short, language is the oral symbols that represent meaning as they are related to real life situation and experience. People use language to communicate with another people. Their feeling, emotion, and desire can be showed by using language.
Holmes (2000:1) defines that sociolinguistic study the relationship between language and society. They are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social context, and they are concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning. The way people talks are influenced by the social context in which they are talking. It matters who can hear us and where we are talking, as well as how we are feeling. Sociolinguistic is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectation, and context, on the way language is used. Hymes (1989:45-66) explains that among the notions with which a theory must deal are those of ways of speaking, fluent speaker, speech situation, speech event, speech act, component of speech event act, and rule of speaking and function of speech.
By making a statement may be the paradigmatic use of language, but there are all sorts of other things we can do with words. We can make requests, ask questions, give orders, make promises, give thanks, offer apologies, and so on. Moreover, almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the
AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT AND MAXIMS OF CONVERSATION
USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST MOVIE
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language has a social function as a tool to make connection between human beings. Without language, it seems impossible for people to interact with others in their daily life because language can express people’s feeling, willing, and opinion. In short, language is the oral symbols that represent meaning as they are related to real life situation and experience. People use language to communicate with another people. Their feeling, emotion, and desire can be showed by using language.
Holmes (2000:1) defines that sociolinguistic study the relationship between language and society. They are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social context, and they are concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning. The way people talks are influenced by the social context in which they are talking. It matters who can hear us and where we are talking, as well as how we are feeling. Sociolinguistic is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectation, and context, on the way language is used. Hymes (1989:45-66) explains that among the notions with which a theory must deal are those of ways of speaking, fluent speaker, speech situation, speech event, speech act, component of speech event act, and rule of speaking and function of speech.
By making a statement may be the paradigmatic use of language, but there are all sorts of other things we can do with words. We can make requests, ask questions, give orders, make promises, give thanks, offer apologies, and so on. Moreover, almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the