Peer Review of The use of WhatsApp to express students confirming speech act strategy to the lecturers

[Woro] [R.], 2845134044 and [Sujito], 2845134044 and [Prim] [M.M.], 197206082002121001 (2019) Peer Review of The use of WhatsApp to express students confirming speech act strategy to the lecturers. IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conf. Series.

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Abstract

Following the rapid growth of social media communication technology worldwide, WhatsApp (WA) becomes one of the most practical means to correlate students and lecturers. Students can contact their lecturers anytime they need to confirm any other task and assignment. However, to contact the lecturers, students have frequently needed the appropriate speech act strategy to convey their intention. While several studies have addressed this issue by focusing on the use of hedges to express politeness in WA to express politeness, and violations are found in approbation maxim. In an attempt to fill this gap, the use of WA to express students confirming speech act strategy to the lecturers. The method of providing data was carried out by tapping method with recording technique. This technique is a screenshot of the written document of the speech act used by students when communicating with lecturers by using WA. The investigation reveals that the most widespread strategy used by students in WA to lecturers was to seek an agreement and the lowest use was to imply or express reciprocity, give understanding, and cooperate with the lecturers. This study argues that students send WA to the lecturers with the various purposes

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