THE ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS OF INTERNET SLANG IN THESTUDENTROOM.COM FORUM

1. THE ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS OF INTERNET SLANG IN THESTUDENTROOM.COM FORUM Ganjar Maulana63708004

2. INTRODUCTION • Background to the Study • Internet slang phrases have become common and popular expression for communicating internet user’s intention • Internet slang phrases can be used in declarative, interrogative, or imperative structure • Internet slang is used to express feeling, to make statement, to insult other people, etc.

3. INTRODUCTION • Structure and function of internet slang phrases make a kind of relation: • Direct speech acts e.g. TBH is used in declarative to make personal statement • Indirect speech acts e.g. TMI is used in declarative to give an order • The writer is interested in analyzing them since they are used by the speaker to convey the intention in various way.

4. INTRODUCTION • Research Question • What speech acts’ types may be identified on the basis of structure from the chosen data? • What speaker communicative intentions may be interpreted? • Objectives • To investigate the speech acts’ types based on the structure from the chosen data • To investigate speaker communicative intention when using the internet slang phrases

5. THEORETICALREVIEW • Speech Acts • Locutionary act • Illocutionary act • Perlocutionary act

6. THEORETICALREVIEW • Types of speech acts: • Based on structure • Declarative • Interrogative • Imperative • Based on function/intention • Assertives • Expressives • Directives • Commissives • Declaration

7. THEORETICALREVIEW • Types of relationship • Direct speech acts • Communicating the literal meaning that the word conventionally express • The structure and the function are directly related. • Indirect speech acts • Communicating a same meaning as literal meaning, but means something more as well. • The structure and the function are not directly related.

8. RESEARCH OBJECT AND METHOD • Research Object • Various threads in thestudentroom.com forum from September 2011 until February 2012 • Research Method • Analytic descriptive

9. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION • Data 1 “TBH I think that Capello should drop him from the tournament. He needs to be heavily punished by UEFA too, he deliberately kicked someone in trying to injure them. If it was someone against Wayne or any of the rest of the England squad we'd all be calling for a lengthy ban.”

10. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION • Analysis • TBH (to be honest) is used when someone wants to make personal statement • Based on the speech event, TBH is a statement from the speaker who thinks that Capello should drop Rooney from the tournament. • Thus, it can be classified into direct assertive since there is a direct relationship between structure and communicative function

11. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION • Data2 “Stupid about Gerrard. But tbh he had a tight hamstring a few weeks ago didn't he... We need to beat Arsenal and I can't see us doing it at all.”

12. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION • Analysis • TBH (to be honest) is used when someone wants to make personal statement • Based on the speech event, TBH is not used as statement, but it is used to make excuse of Gerrard’s poor performance. • Thus, it can be classified into indirect directives since there is an indirect relationship between structure and communicative function.

13. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS • Conclusions • There are 2 types of speech acts identified based on the structure of data; they are direct and indirect speech acts. • Direct speech acts consist of 3 communicative intention: assertives, commissives, and expressives. • Indirect speech acts consist of 3 communicative intention: directives, assertives, and expressives.

14. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS • Suggestions • Analyzing the reason leading the speaker to use direct and indirect speech acts • Analyzing direct and indirect speech acts in other kind of internet forum

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