CHILDREN’S RESPONSE TO THE UTTERANCES OF THEIR PARENTS’ NEGATION: COMMUNITIES IN KARTASURA

Kurniawan Kurniawan

doi:10.30743/ll.v4i1.2406

Abstract

The act of obeying parents' right to control them or refusing the directives by challenging their parents’ authority are two preferences children may opt for. This present investigation concerns to what extend children respond upon hearing negative utterances aimed for them. This qualitative research applies a theory of speech acts proposed by Austin (1962) to analyze data classified as negation utterances. Four families living at the Kartasura become this research data source. To collect the data, the researcher implements direct observation by recording audio and taking notes on the parents and their children's interaction within a period of approximately an hour. The result of the study implies that mostly Kartasura children do what their parents tell them to do, while few data indicate children's refusal of parents’ negations. One reason is due to the cultural value held tightly and bequeathed by Javanese through a number of centuries that is the act to honor and obey parents’ directives. To sum up, the implementation of negative utterances in the parenting world is not prohibited; however, parents must keep in mind the use of proper portion.

Highlights

Directive claims an entitlement to control the hearer’s actions since it involves authority, social status, as well as cultural dimension (Cutting, 2002 and Kent, 2012)
It focused on directive speech acts that contained negation utterances to warn and prohibit hearer not to do something
4.2 Discussion The analysis of the data presented in previous statement has revealed that compliance is a response to actions that often appear to comply with parental directives in speech negation

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Introduction

Directive claims an entitlement to control the hearer’s actions since it involves authority, social status, as well as cultural dimension (Cutting, 2002 and Kent, 2012). This speech act category is one of the parenting language styles mostly occurring in family communication. One impulse that every parent must have is to prevent, warn, and even forbid their children from not doing something. Use your right hand.” is an example of parental directive intended to negate and warn children.

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