Giving Compliments Communicative Functions

between Socrates and Mello. The excerpt of the conversation can be seen in the following details. Excerpt 21 Context : Socrates and Mello talked about their assignments and impressions of certain subjects. Mello : So, I’m having a piece of cake. Literally. Socrates : Literally. Not idiomatically? Mello : No No No No No Socrates : Oh Uhm. What the FUCK is idiomatic Ap120-23 The context describes that they talked about their assignments and impressions of certain subjects. Mello produced a phrase a piece of cake. Socrates thought that the phrase was like the idiom, but Mello had different idea about the phrase, a piece of cake. After that, Socrates expressed bad words What the FUCK is idiomatic in order to emphasize that he did not care whether it included idiomatic or literal meaning. Similarly, the conversation between Socrates and Rose was also found the expression of bad words. In this conversation, Socrates was the person who also produced bad words. The following is the excerpt of the conversation. Excerpt 22 Context : Rose and Socrates talked about the importance of buying O’Grady’s book. Rose : It’s O’Grady’s book that we use in linguistic class. Socrates : Who the HELL is O’Grady? Rose : [laughing] He is my father. Ap594-96 It can be interpreted that Rose told Socrates about the book written by O’Grady. Socrates did not really know who O’Grady was, then he used bad words, Who the HELL is O’Grady?. This expression is to know the details about O’Grady and of course, the book.

10. Mocking

The expression of mocking is to make people laugh at someone. The present researcher found that 10 utterances of mocking showing 1.0 were appeared in the conversation of the couple of a male and a female student. The following is the excerpt of the conversation. Excerpt 23 Context : Socrates told about the way to play the game. Rose argued that the size of the game was so big, then it could make her cellphone error. Rose : And it makes my phone hang. Hang? [laughing] What is hang in English actually? Socrates : ERROR. ERROR. Rose : Nah Socrates : You have to consult your dictionary = Very often. = Ap547-50 Excerpt 23 gives details that Rose was not sure whether her own word hang was appropriate, but Socrates mocked her. Socrates thought that Rose did not know the vocabulary, or had lack of vocabulary. Finally, Socrates asked Rose to look up the dictionaries frequently. In this case, the expression of mocking used by Socrates was in a form of suggestion.

11. Greeting

This communicative function is set at the beginning of conversation. Coupland 2000:43 states that greeting is as obvious manifestation of small talk or phatic communication occurring in the opening phase. People express it when meeting others in society. It has been found that the frequency of greeting is 8 showing 0.5. The data shows that the two couples of females and the couple of a male and a female greeted each other. The first finding shows that Sri and Maria, expressed greeting in conversation. The conversation can be illustrated as follows. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI