| dc.description.abstract | This research investigates compliment response strategy produced by
second language learners at English Department Faculty of Letters, Jember
University academic years 2013. As second language learners, Javanese students
might be influenced by Javanese or English culture while making compliment
responses. Therefore, this research is aimed to classify the compliment response
strategy and find the different type of strategies employed by male and female
Javanese. Next, seeing the pragmatic transfer of Javanese culture politeness,
whether or not Javanese culture politeness reflect to the way Javanese students
produce compliment responses.
This research uses mixed methodologies between Quantitative and
Qualitative research methodology. Discourse completion test (DCT) is used to
collect the data. In collecting the data, the DCT given consists of ten scenarios
consist of five situations to respond compliments and five situations to respond
other types of speech acts. It is done in order to avoid the similarity of the data
collected. The data gained are classified into Herbert’s taxonomy (1986) of
compliment response strategy. The theory applied in this research is politeness
theory proposed by Brown & Levinson (1978). The result of the study shows that
Agreement is the most frequent strategy employed by Javanese students in
responding to compliment. Javanese and English politeness cultures are applied in
the compliment strategies employed. This will lead to language acculturation in
the bicultural communication. In this case, male and female participants produce
the same strategy that is Agreement. | en_US |
