¹Nurhidayah, ²Patuan Raja, ³Bambang Setiyadi

¹Magister of English Education Study Program Department of Language and Arts Education Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lampung University
^2,3Lampung University

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i01-98

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ABSTRACT

This article aimed to investigate request of directive speech at family conversation. This study had formulated a research question concerning the types of directive speech acts mostly used in Family conversation and how a request was expressed by the subject research. The method of this study used qualitative method. This study carried out for 5 days and there were 25 types of requests. The result of this research, the biggest percentage was ranked by imperative expressions which were 88% of all the directive forms. From this result, it could be interpreted that the subject research used imperative to express the directive forms based on some situational contexts that were provided in appendixes. For interrogative 8% and statement only 4%.

KEYWORDS:

Speech act, directive speech.

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