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Speech Acts and the Different Perspectives on the Meaning of “Very Sorry” in the Letter on Hainan Island Incident Sari, Christine Permata
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 20, No 1 (2017)
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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This study aims to analyze the types of speech acts in the text and to analyze different perspectives on the meaning “very sorry” between the United States of America and the Peoples Republic of China. The object of the study is a letter of saying sorry from the U.S. Ambassador for China Joseph Prueher to the Foreign Minister of the PRC Tang Jiaxuan on the incident in Hainan Island which caused the death of the Chinese’s pilot and the custody of the aircraft crew and the surveillance aircraft relating the emergency landing without any prior permission. The researcher employed the speech acts theory proposed by Searle (1979) as cited by Wardhaugh (2006) to analyze speech acts types and to obtain the dominant type and the implication used in the text. The strategies of apology by Cohen and Olshtain (1986) as cited by Zhang (2001) were also employed. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The result showed the biggest percentages of the types were expressive and assertive. The researcher also found the different perspectives on the meaning of “very sorry” between the US and the PRC which led into misunderstanding influenced by the culture. This research benefits the English language learners to understand the meaning of locutions which they hear and to acknowledge the culture influences society perspectives in understanding the meaning especially for non-English speakers.DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/llt.2017.200102
Transitivity in Linguistics Abstracts Papers of 2nd LLTC by ELESP Sari, Christine Permata; Sari, Maria Evita
Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS) Vol 2, No 2 (2016): September 2016
Publisher : Magister Kajian Bahasa Inggris (English Language Studies) Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogy

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In linguistic field, transitivity is widely used to analyze newspaper, short stories, novels or other discourses to construe the ideology of the discourses. This research aims to analyze the transitivity processes in abstracts. The data are obtained from abstract papers submitted in 2nd LLTC held by ELESP Sanata Dharma University. The data are analyzed by using qualitative and quantitative methods since the research provides the descriptive analysis based on the percentage of occurrence of the findings. There are five abstracts chosen randomly from twenty linguistics abstracts. The results show that (1) there are six transitivity processes analyzed;  material  (62.4%),  relational  (24.7%),  verbal  (5.4%),  mental  (4.3%),  behavior (3.2%), existential (1.1%) and (2) there thirteen circumstantial elements with the highest percentage is place (54.4%), and the least are frequency, commutative, and matter (1.3% for each). This research can be the initial state of conducting a research on transitivity process and circumstantial elements in abstracts. Keywords: transitivity, abstract