Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)

Contrastive Analysis of Complimenting Speech Acts in Japanese and Javanese

Authors
Isnaeni Khurniya Falakhiya1, *, Nuria Haristiani1
1Japanese Language Education Department, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: isnaenikhurniya12@gmail.com
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Isnaeni Khurniya Falakhiya
Available Online 26 February 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_32How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Compliment; contrastive analysis; Japanese language; Javanese language; speech acts
Abstract

This research aims to identify the use of speech acts of complimenting in Japanese and Javanese based on six types of compliments, namely appearance compliment, ability/performance compliment, possession compliment, personality/friendliness compliment, residence compliment, and family member compliment. This study uses a descriptive contrastive method with a qualitative approach. The data sources used are a Japanese drama titled “Silent” consisting of six episodes and a Javanese drama entitled “Yo Wis Ben The Series” consisting of five episodes. This research utilizes Holmes’s (2003) and Mizutani and Mizutani’s (1987) theories on speech acts of complimenting based on their types. The results show that out of the six types of compliments, only four types were found in the Japanese language, which are compliments regarding the speaker’s appearance, ability/performance, possession, and personality/friendliness. On the other hand, all six types of compliments were found in the Javanese language. In both Japanese and Javanese compliment speech acts, frequently used words were found, such as “ii ne” (good), “kawaii” (cute/adorable), “suki” (like/love), “jouzu” (great), and “sugoi” (amazing) in Japanese, and “apik” (nice), “lucu” (cute), “bagus” (great), “pinter” (clever/smart), and “mantep” (excellent) in Javanese. These findings indicate that the words used for complimenting in both Japanese and Javanese share similarities.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 February 2024
ISBN
978-94-6463-376-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_32How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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