VARIOUS SPEECH SEQUENCES OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN DOING REQUEST VIA SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE

Abstract

Interaction, if not wisely considered, may be very risky. The unwise utterances may lead to misunderstanding. When this happens, pragmatic failure is of great possibility occur. This writing is aimed at describing the some variations of speech seqeunces in doing request and the reasons of using each variation. The data are the request uttered by English Department students Andalas University to their friends, their lecturer and vice versa at the campus. Data are collected by observational method, interviewing and note-taking technique. To analyze the data, pragmatic and referential identity method is used. The result of analysis is naratively and descriptively presented. Having been related to the concept of speech act of request (Revita, 2008) and context (Yule, 1986), it is found that there are four variations of speech sequence when English Department students do request. They are (a) (1) 1 in 1; (b) 2 in 1; (c) 3 in 1; and (d) multi acts in 1. The choice of these variations is basically based on several reasons, namely (i) social; (ii)psychological; (iii) cultural ; and (iv) religious aspect. Keywords: Sequence, request, short message service