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INDIRECT SPEECH ACT IN TEXTING THROUGH WHATSAPP BY DATING RELATIONSHIP COUPLE
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Last modified: 2021-08-09

Abstract


Man and woman tend to have the close communication between them. Therefore  concepts of dating relationship is a usual thing that happens in the society especially for early adulthood. In doing the relationship, both male and female will always have the intents communication between them. The communication that they have is not always be done by face to face but also through social media. One of the popular media social that used by many people today is WhatsApp. This media social allow the user to text, call, and video call. Even it is also has the news feed that everyone can share their photos, video, or status. This research tried to found whether female or male that often use indirect speech act in their communication through WhatsApp while texting their couple. This paper try to analyse indirect speech act between female and male who involve in dating relationship through their WhatsApp texting. The participants of this research are three couples who use WhatsApp in doing communication. Their ages is 20-25 years old. The data was collected by documentations the message history of them. Analizing the data was done by categorizing it into direct and indiret speech act based on Clark (1977). It had found that female use indirect speech act more often than male. Based on three chat history found that there are ten indirect speech acts that delivered the females of three couples and only three indirect speech acts by the male.