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4. Review of Related Research
In doing this research, the researcher needs to seek for references, especially from the related research. Considering that the books for Singapore
English are very limited, the researcher seeks for many references in the form of journals, theses, or dissertations. In this part, the researcher would like to review
some of the previous research. There are two research that will be reviewed by the researcher.
a. Viven Ler Soon Lay 2005
The first is a doctoral thesis from National University of Singapore stud
ent, entitled “An In-Depth Study of Discourse Particles in Singapore English”. In order to deal with the discourse particles, especially the types, the
researcher takes some references from Lay 2005. This thesis is very complex, considering this is a doc
toral thesis. In Lay‟s thesis, she made a complete data and sources from some experts. The researcher gathers some of her citations from
many sources that could help the researcher in this thesis. Lay focused on the functions of discourse particle Meh, Hor, and Lah for the deeper analysis.
However, she provides some multifunction of all SCE discourse particles. Based on
Lay‟s thesis, the researcher found the types of discourse particles ah and lah from Wong‟s 2004 theory. Although they are spread in different chapters,
fortunately, the researcher could gather them. The researcher got Lay‟s thesis
from the downloadable online source. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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b. Low Ee Ling and David Deterding 2003
The second related research is a journal from a quite phenomenal Singapore English e
xpertise, entitled “A corpus-based description of particles in spoken Singapore English”. This journal is actually in a form of a book containing
many journals from Deterding D., Low E. L. and Brown A. eds. entitled English in Singapore: Research on Grammar.
In this journal, Ling and Deterding presented a research about the use of discourse particles from the male and female interviewee. In the finding, they
found two functions of discourse particles, the major conditions when the speaker uses discourse particles, and some gender imbalances between male and female
interviewee, considering the interviewer was a male. As in their findings, in that journal, the researcher found some expertise opinions, including Ling and
Deterding‟s own opinion about the different role function of ah and lah particles, which is ah more often has syntactic function and lah is more often has a
pragmatic function. The opinion was strengthened by Kwan- Terry‟s 1987 about
emotive and non-emotive sentence-final particle in Mandarin. From those two research, the researcher got many sources which were very
helpful in finishing this research.
B. Theoretical Framework
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