Pragmatic Skills of Sasak Language Speakers: A Case Study in a Sasak Speech Community

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

pragmatics, Sasak, politeness, speech act, identity

Abstract

This study discusses pragmatic skills of Sasak language speakers. It also studies the way the Sasak society present speech acts such as greeting, requesting, thanking and complaining in their daily interaction. For this purposes Ishihara & Cohen (2010) elucidate these speech acts tend to follow regular and predictable patterns for members of the given community. The data were collected by interviewing and recording daily interaction in Sasak speech community. pragmatic skillsThe findings show that the speech acts above are exploited to show identity and politeness strategy of the Sasak Society. In the light of this image, this study is more concerned with the value of politeness among the people of Sasak.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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