The Compliments Responses Across Gender in English and Non-English Department
The Compliments Responses across Gender in English and Non-English Department
Nisa Eka Aprilia
Study of English Education Language and Literature, Universitas Brawijaya
Indonesia
Email : nisanea@hotmail.com
1. Introduction
In this era, a lot of female wants to be equal or wants to be on same level with male existence. Many female becomes feminist, sometimes they called womanist and they fought for woman emancipation. But they still have difference opinion between female and male, for example difference responses of compliments.
Actually, the difference in compliment responses is not only from across gender but also from educational background for example difference major or program study can also becomes a factor of this phenomenon. There are also many research about this one of the pragmatics issue, such as the compliment responses across gerder in Philiphine by Rodrigo Concepcion Morales in 2009 and the influence of education background on compliment responses by Yuanyuan Gao & Suzhen Ren from China on February 2008.
This paper try to analyze what kind of the compliment responses given by students in English and Non-English Department in Brawijaya University.
There some questions that underlying this paper. 1. 2. 3. 4.1. Is there any difference compliment responses between male and female ? 4.2. Is there a big gap of responses that given by English and Non-English students ? 4.3. What is the effects or advantages for writer and readers after knowing the subject’s compliments responses ? In pragmatics role, the compliments and the compliment responses become one of the sub unit in speech event and also relates to politeness. Compliments and compliment responses can be also expressives, one of speech act classification. The definiton of compliments based on Holmes (1988, p. 485 addopted Roderigo, p.1) is a speech act that has positive value by the speaker and also the heareer or addresse, that explicitly
Nisa Eka Aprilia
Study of English Education Language and Literature, Universitas Brawijaya
Indonesia
Email : nisanea@hotmail.com
1. Introduction
In this era, a lot of female wants to be equal or wants to be on same level with male existence. Many female becomes feminist, sometimes they called womanist and they fought for woman emancipation. But they still have difference opinion between female and male, for example difference responses of compliments.
Actually, the difference in compliment responses is not only from across gender but also from educational background for example difference major or program study can also becomes a factor of this phenomenon. There are also many research about this one of the pragmatics issue, such as the compliment responses across gerder in Philiphine by Rodrigo Concepcion Morales in 2009 and the influence of education background on compliment responses by Yuanyuan Gao & Suzhen Ren from China on February 2008.
This paper try to analyze what kind of the compliment responses given by students in English and Non-English Department in Brawijaya University.
There some questions that underlying this paper. 1. 2. 3. 4.1. Is there any difference compliment responses between male and female ? 4.2. Is there a big gap of responses that given by English and Non-English students ? 4.3. What is the effects or advantages for writer and readers after knowing the subject’s compliments responses ? In pragmatics role, the compliments and the compliment responses become one of the sub unit in speech event and also relates to politeness. Compliments and compliment responses can be also expressives, one of speech act classification. The definiton of compliments based on Holmes (1988, p. 485 addopted Roderigo, p.1) is a speech act that has positive value by the speaker and also the heareer or addresse, that explicitly
References: Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. New York. Oxford University Press Morales, Rodrigo Concepcion Gao,Yuanyuan & Ren, Suzhen. 2008. The Influence of Education Background on Compliment Responses. China. Asian Social Science Tajeddin, Zia & Ghamari, Mohammad Reza