The Pattern of Topic Change in Indonesian and Singaporean Conversation

2017

This paper tries to explore the ways of topic shift in Urdu conversation. It investigates the use of minimal responses in topic shifting in Urdu conversation. Employing the methodology of conversation analysis, the researcher demonstrates that the topic shift in Urdu conversation is sudden as well as progressive and it depends on gender relation and status of the participants.

2020

The related review of this research is about speech act. Next, the study about the speech function using whatsapp and this research is about style in conversation by phone using Bahasa. This study aims to describe (1) style variation of conversation by phone in Bahasa (2) the inluenced factors in using variative style in conversation by phone. Collectiong data by observation and we use use similarity method by pragmatic study for data analysis, next it is used informal technic for final analisis to get the points. This study stated that (1) Conversation by phone in Bahasa is varied;it is used opening, point, and closing. In the opening there are greeting and hedge. There is dialog among participants; speaker and hearer. This dialog sometimes appears the culture among them. This style is used for participant to connect and being conenected to other. There is style which is needed as requirement in Bahasa, but sometimes they made misunderstanding each other (2) the influenced factors ...

2014

This research aims to tell SPEAKING model that happened in conversation of Talk Indonesia on Metro TV which can be implemented for teaching and learning process in classroom. The research method that used is descriptive- qualitative. The subject of this research is three editions of Talk Indonesia on Metro TV. The results of data analysis showed that the setting of place and scene are also influencing the psychological situation of the conversation. The speakers are from different backgrounds to talk the linear topics through their backgrounds. The role of speaking is based on sequence structure of turn taking. The conversation is casual, joyful and light-hearted which sometimes produced code mixing, code switching and based on norms of interaction and interpretation Keywords: SPEAKING model, Conversation, Metro TV Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui model SPEAKING yang terjadi di percakapan Talk Indonesia di Metro TV yang dapat diimplementasikan untuk proses belajar ...

Spontaneous dialogue is an example of spoken text in which its potential can be observed through its conversational structure. As an attempt to interpret the language in spoken text, the paper investigates a spontaneous dialogue in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian). The discussion focuses on its conversational structure within systemic functional framework. The structure is built up in the semantic stratum by looking at its exchange and commodity for its speech function. The exchanges are realized by Initiate/Respond moves and the commodity could be either Knowledge or Action oriented. Since a spontaneous dialogue is a contextual phenomenon in experiencing language use, the finding of conversational structure can bring further discussion on connections among individuals bearing cultural identities realized by their experiences through languages.

2011

This sub chapter focuses on language, conversation, conversation analysis, and some aspects of conversation analysis related with this thesis. Language is a media we need to make a conversation with another people. Conversation itself is an activity between two person or more in purpose to share an idea, experience, etc. Conversation analysis is the study of recorded, naturally occurring talk-in-interaction. In conversation, there are some things we need to analyze. Not only the meaning of conversation itself, but also what occurred within the conversation, that is what we called aspect of conversation. In this subchapter, the researcher explained the definition of language, conversation, conversation analysis, and some aspects of conversation analysis. For brief explanation of the theory are given in the following sub chapter. 2.1 Language Language has been studied for many years and from different perspectives. Ancient Greek philosophers elaborated on its proper use and purpose, modern scholars analyzed how it is produced and perceived. Everything that has so far been said about language can be ascribed to a certain general conception of talking about this issue. There are four such different approaches to talking about language: treating it as a social fact, as natural behavior, as a mental organ, or as an abstract object.

Practicing conversations or dialogues in various context or situation is as the essential aspect for students because it smoothen their skill in communication and their English mastery. Whenever people use language to interact, one of the things people are doing with it is establishing a relationship between them; between the speaker speaking now and the person who will probably speak next. It means, strategies in communicating put an important role to reach the goal of the interaction or the communication. This study is to identify the communication strategies of Indonesian university students, especially students of the English Department Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University and native speaker used in communication in natural conversation and to find out the possible factors cause the choice of the strategies in the conversation. The method applied in this study is descriptive qualitative. The subjects of this study are fourth semester students of English Department of Muria Kudus University and one native speaker. The data were obtained by inviting and asking the students and the native speaker to have a conversation for around one hour. Then, the conversation was recorded by using camera. The recorded data were transferred into the printed one as a script. The data analysis was conducted in several ways, among other transcribing the recorded data, identifying each utterance and displaying the result in the table, classifying the utterances based on the type of strategies, and interpreting the communication or the conversation. The results showed that there were 306 turns in the conversation between the students and the native speaker. The types of strategies used in the conversations were Circumlocution (C) for 38.98 % (23), followed by Language Switch (LS) for 15.3 % (9) and Topic Avoidance (TA) for 14.6 % (8), Literal Translation (LT) for 6.8 % (4), Mime (M) for 8.5 % (5), Word Coinage (WC) and Message Abandonment (MA) for 6.8 % (4), Appeal for Assistance (AA) for 5.6 % (3), and Approximation (A) for 3.39 % (2). The last finding showed that there were two main factors that cause the choice of the strategies in the conversations. They were proficiency of the speaker and features of the communicative situation. In the use of communication strategies, both students of English Department Muria Kudus University and the native speaker try to have a relative balance of power relation without the domination of one person to others. Some factors which cause the use of the strategies are lack of meaning, social use aspect, speech, voice, and fluency. To improve students' strategies in communication, they should practice their English more, so their speaking and their strategies will be improved. Besides, lecturers also should apply the contextual teaching in which the environment and culture are inserted into the topic.

Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018), 2019

Conversations are famous yet essential in people communication. There are a lot of things can be explored from the conversations since people brings cultures in communication. People also show theirs and others' identity in the conversations they have. Therefore, investigating conversation to capture what is involved inside becomes important. In line to the importance of investigating conversation, political news interview is also interesting to be investigated since it brings information to the public. It is also used by the politician to clarify the policies taken by the government. This study aimed to investigate the interactional pattern of the political news interview through outlining the turn taking organization. "Catatan Najwa" was chosen to be the materials for this research. The researchers particularly chose the episode of "Setia Pengacara Setya, Part 1" since the related issues became trending in certain period of time. The video of selected interview was taken from Youtube channel. The video was transcribed, explored and examined to capture the organization of turn taking. The result of the study indicated that the interview interaction was considered as high density since there are a lot of interruptions and overlaps. Although it was high density, the organization of turn taking can be considered as highly structured.

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2020–Social, Humanity, and Education (ICoSIHESS 2020)

Conversations between speaking partners from different cultures, such as Indonesian and native Japanese language speakers, may include many different topics. However, due to the differences in cultural values between the speakers, the Indonesian Japanese language speakers may speak with a topic that might intrude upon the native Japanese language speakers' privacy, not knowing sensitive topics. This issue may cause a misunderstanding between the speakers. This survey study aims to identify what conversation topics the Indonesian Japanese language speakers may speak to native Japanese speakers in an introductory conversation on the first meeting. An open-ended questionnaire was distributed to 73 students of the Japanese Language Education Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta to collect the data. The questionnaire included questions on conversation topics that an Indonesian student would like to discuss with Japanese students in five different situations, namely conversations in a cultural exchange event, conversations in Indonesian tourism spots, conversations in Japanese education fairs in Indonesia, conversations in Japanese cultural fairs in Indonesia, and conversations in Indonesian public transportation. Additionally, a follow-up interview to gather detailed answers was conducted with 14 students based on the questionnaire. The survey results showed that Indonesian students wished to discuss personal topics with Japanese students. Therefore, Indonesian students had a high chance of being misunderstood when communicating with Japanese students because they would consider the topic they have chosen to intrude on their privacy. However, as not all personal information is considered privacy-intruding, future survey studies on the Japanese students are necessary to identify private topics.

Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan

Since language as a communication tool, that’s why information structure is really important in language system and in the communication process. This research is aimed to find out the pattern of information structure in junior high school students, in one of junior high school in the private school in Semarang. The researcher focused on informal and conversations between student-student and teacher-student or student-teacher. The researcher got thirty six conversations of informal and formal conversations. This was a qualitative research and the researcher focused on Topic and Focus of each conversations, since topic and focus are important constructions in giving the information or constructing the sentence. As the result, in formal conversation, both of speakers (teacher or students) tended to eliminate the subject, or the TOPIC (47 %), while only 33 % of eliminating the predicate or the FOCUS, and the rest is only 20% showed that there was no any elimination in the conversations...

2019

Colloquial speech at young men in Galala always creates casual conversation, moreover in a young men society, Colloquial is used as a game to satirize or mock somebody and the words in the speech are created and defined by themselves. At Galala young men’s Colloquial, Ambon Malay language is always exist to revive the situation of the conversation. The purpose of this research is to describe Colloquial of Ambon Malay language at Galala young men, Sirimau district, with the first benefit to student that is to increase the knowledge of Colloquial conversation, and the second benefit to the further researcher as preliminary study about the theory and Colloquial phenomenon and also as a reference to the further researcher. This article is begun with the explanation of relevant theoretical basis such as: Colloquial; statement form, question, command in Colloquial of Ambon Malay language at Galala young men; the function of the usage of ColloquialAmbon Malay language of Galala young men...