Abstract
This study entitled The Use of Singlish Discourse Particle ‘lah’ in SGAG’s Videos is aimed to analyze the types and function of discourse particle in SGAG’s videos. The data were taken from the conversation in SGAG’s video collection. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyze the types and functions of discourse particle ‘lah’. The theories used to analyze it are the classification of the type of discourse particle theory by Wong, role of particles theory by Ling and Deterding and Context of Situation by Halliday. The result of analysis shows that there were 62 discourse particle lah in the SGAG’s video collection from May 28th 2017 until October 10th 2017. The major type of discourse particle lah was Propositional lah (33 occurrences) and the function is more often as a pragmatic role (56 occurrences) rather than a syntactic function (6 occurrences).
Highlights
IntroductionEnglish is well known as Singlish, the abbreviation of Singaporean English
Background of the Study InSingapore, English is well known as Singlish, the abbreviation of Singaporean English
The videos were chosen because it has enough data of discourse particle lah which is suitable to be analyzed since the main language in this video collection is Singaporean English
Summary
English is well known as Singlish, the abbreviation of Singaporean English. The term Singlish often gets misunderstood by people. Singlish is a language variety in Singapore, not a whole Singaporean English. There are two varieties of English in Singapore. The first one is Singapore Standard English (SSE), which is similar to British English, as the Standard English in Singapore. The second one is Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or Singlish. Harada (2009:70) stated that English is the second language in Singapore, while Mandarin, Chinese Dialects (Hokkien, Teochewan and Cantonese), Malay and Tamil are the first languages in Singapore The second one is Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or Singlish. Harada (2009:70) stated that English is the second language in Singapore, while Mandarin, Chinese Dialects (Hokkien, Teochewan and Cantonese), Malay and Tamil are the first languages in Singapore
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