LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
Vol 24, No 1 (2021): April 2021

SOCIO-PRAGMATIC PROFILING ON ENGLISH IMPERATIVE INTONATION AT THE AIRPORT

Yune Andryani Pinem (STTKD School of Aviation Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Mar 2021

Abstract

Regardless its function to order someone to do or not do something, commanding and requesting is different in pragmatics and sociolinguistics basis. Related to dual-service of security and comfort at the airport, authority and politeness entailed in an imperative utterance can be expressed differently according to the context. Social backgrounds including gender, occupation and job experience or training of 6 aviation workers portray various expressions and pitches of 5 imperative operators in 10 different situations divided by level of danger. Profiling on implicature over those backgrounds are described by locating stress point switch on the expression given.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LLT

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, to be published twice a year, namely in April and October, is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published by the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. The ...