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Love Confessions In Japanese From Street Interview, Filia Filia, Rizki Nurfitri
Love Confessions In Japanese From Street Interview, Filia Filia, Rizki Nurfitri
International Review of Humanities Studies
This paper examines expressions of love confession in Japanese. Love confession is expressed not only verbally but also nonverbally. Sometimes it needs to be communicated both verbally and nonverbally. It seems the variations of love confession not limited to the common phrases (such as suki desu 'I love you', tsukiatte kudasai 'can we have a relationship?'). In preliminary observation, we found love confession declared not only in common phrases but also in indirect expressions of love confession. This is become a point of departure to overview expression of love confession in Japanese.The data are collected from 12 street interview videos. …
Pragmatic Meaning Of Baby Care Gugon Tuhon In Javanese, Devi Kurniawati, Widhyasmaramurti Widhyasmaramurti
Pragmatic Meaning Of Baby Care Gugon Tuhon In Javanese, Devi Kurniawati, Widhyasmaramurti Widhyasmaramurti
International Review of Humanities Studies
Gugon Tuhon (GT) is a Javanese proposition found in the community as a learning tool. This study explains baby care GT in the village of Bulurejo, Kediri, East Java. Currently, GT is poorly understood and obsolete. Therefore, the research problem of this paper is how can the meaning of GT be understood by mothers in the village of Bulurejo and what does the effect of understanding GT? This study used 8 GT from www.sastra.org, and an interview was conducted with a dhukun (traditional healer) to get in-depth data. This study uses qualitative method and Speech Act theory by Austin (1984) …