name. Yet, it will also be inappropriate if the student uses TLN or T to address, since the one he addresses has the same age and
power of him.
4.2 Tigor: Sorry, Nurul
. I‟ve got to go now.
Nurul: Alright, Tigor. Goodbye, see you tomorrow. Tigor: Bye, Nurul. See you soon.
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The second example is a conversation between two classmates named Tigor and Nurul which happens at school when
the school time ends. The topic of the conversation is about excusing in which Tigor excuses himself to go first when they are
in the middle of conversation, and it ends up with saying goodbye to each other. Here, both of them use FN to address one another to
show an intimacy between them as friends. Both of them use FN, since they are friends and intimate to each other. In other words,
the use of FN in this conversation has a function to show intimacy, and it is influenced by the factor of degree of intimacy DI.
The use of FN is already appropriate to be used in the conversation. Although, in fact, the intimate friends in real life will
rarely call their close friends by using a full first name instead of using a special nickname, the place where they are having the
conversation is at school where the politeness should still be maintained even with the friends.
4.3 Teacher: Tigor, where is the garbage can?
Student: It‟s over there, ma‟am, next to cupboard. TVIIU232b
In the third example shows a conversation between a teacher and her student which happens in the classroom in which
the teacher asks her student named Tigor where the garbage can is, because she wants to throw her trash away. Here, the teacher
addresses Tigor by using FN. In this case, FN is chosen by the teacher to show power difference, since there is a different social
status between them. In the school system, teachers always have higher power than the students, because they are the ones who
educate the students. The use of FN by the teacher to the student is appropriate,
because FN is the only type that can indicates the power difference as caused of the different social status between teacher and student.
It will be very inappropriate if the teacher uses TLN, for example, to address the student, since TLN is used for respecting other
people who are older or have higher status than the speaker. Here, the student has lower social status in the school system, thus the
use of FN is already appropriate.
b. Title plus Last Name TLN
TLN is often used by people in their daily conversation. Different types of address terms have different meaning which also
indicates equality or inequality between people. For example, the
use of TLN indicates inequality power between the speaker and the addressee. It can also be used to show respect toward the addressee.
People who have high status usually receive TLN when they are being addressed by people who have lower status. Examples of
TLN performed by the characters of the conversations are as follows:
4.4 Teacher: Hello class, I‟m your English teacher.
My name‟s is Ina Damayanti but you can call me Miss Ina.
TVIIU13b The data above is about a teacher‟s introduction to her new
students in her classroom. Here, the teacher mentions her name and then asks her students to call her by using TLN. In this case, the
teacher choose to use TLN to address herself is because she wants to show power difference between her and her students that she has
higher status as teacher that should be respected by the students. In short, TLN here has a function to show power difference and social
status becomes the factor influencing the teacher in choosing it. The use of TLN is this case is appropriate, that the teachers
wants to maintain the respect coming from the students to the teacher. However, the TLN used here is an inappropriate form of
TLN that is used by the native of English. The English address system clearly states that TLN is a pattern that consists of Title and
Last Name or Family Name of a person, for example for a person named James Brown he will be called as Mr. Brown. The data
