Research Article
A Study of Compliment Responses Used by Indonesians
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.29-6-2019.2290441, author={Intan Permata Hapsari}, title={A Study of Compliment Responses Used by Indonesians}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Science, Education and Technology, ISET 2019, 29th June 2019, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ISET}, year={2020}, month={1}, keywords={compliment speech function field mode tenor}, doi={10.4108/eai.29-6-2019.2290441} }- Intan Permata Hapsari
Year: 2020
A Study of Compliment Responses Used by Indonesians
ISET
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.29-6-2019.2290441
Abstract
The Indonesian compliment responses were chosen to be explored since they had many functions. The problems to solve in this study are: (1) what speech functions are used to respond to Indonesian compliment, (2) how are those speech functions realized. The subjects of this study were Indonesian speakers. The main concern in this study was their verbal interaction (face-to-face) and emphasized the text containing the compliment and its response which constitute the limitation of this study. The study was based on the model of speech function network offered by Eggins & Slade (1997). The explored speech functions performed by the compliment responses were analyzed using register analysis (field, mode, tenor). Compliments are all around us. Therefore the study of compliments and their responses is important because they reveal information about nation’s culture, in this case is the Indonesian culture, and speech behaviour.