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Tell : Teaching of English Language and Literature Journal
ISSN : 23388927     EISSN : 26572443     DOI : https://doi.org/10.30651
Tell : Teaching of English Language and Literature Journal (e-ISSN 2657-2443 and p-ISSN: 2338-8927) is a journal of English Language Teaching (ELT), linguistics, and literature published in April and September by English Education Department of Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya. This journal is committed to investigate and scrutinize present issues of ELT, linguistics and literature. Contributions in the forms of research-based and literature-review studies written by national and international scholars and researchers are welcomed. High quality of studies presenting the State of the Art (SOTA) and originality is preferable.
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The Flouting of Conversational Maxims in Short Messages Astia, Idda
Tell : Teaching of English Language and Literature Journal Vol 1 No 1 (2013): September
Publisher : English Department FKIP Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30651/tell.v1i1.520

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This study aims to describe how the participants (senders and receivers) flout conversational maxims in short messages. In this study, the source is taken from short messages that are sent via a provider because nowadays most people do communication with others using mobile phone. This study uses Grice’s theory of cooperative principle is used especially the flouting of maxims (maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relevance, and maxim of manner). All kinds of those flouting that exist in short messages are analyzed, which are delivered by the participants (senders and receivers). This research uses qualitative descriptive. The utterances produced by the participants, the senders and the receivers, when they were conversing with each others in term of short messages or texting (SMS) were analyzed and described. The data of the research were written data, collected from the utterances, which contain flouting performed by the senders and the receivers in the short messages or texting (SMS). The result of the research shows that in maxim of quantity, they flout by adding more information and giving a little information. In maxim of quality, all of the participants flout it by saying what they believed false. In maxim of relevance, the participants flouted it by saying irrelevant responses. In maxim of manner, moreover, the participants flouted it by saying convoluted words which are extremely long-winded. The conversational maxim are mostly flouted by the participants (sender and receiver) in the short massages is maxim of quantity. It is flouted by adding more information.
Swear Words Used by Undergraduate Students of Engineering College in Surabaya Rakhmaniyah, Rakhmaniyah
Tell : Teaching of English Language and Literature Journal Vol 1 No 1 (2013): September
Publisher : English Department FKIP Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30651/tell.v1i1.521

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Swear words are kind of forbidden words that most of people think it does not allow occur in their conversation. However, some people try to break the rule; by using swear words in their daily conversations. It often occurs among undergraduate students, that is why the researcher find it interesting to identify the swear words choice that are used by undergraduate students of Engineering College in Surabaya as well as the type of swear word and their purposes. The researcher got the data through observation, recording and questionnaire. After collecting the data, the findings were analyzed by classifying, categorizing and describing the swear word that undergraduate students of Engineering used. The result of this research indicates that although many students came from outside Surabaya, the swear words which is more frequently they used is the term of sex such as “cuk” and “Jancuk”. Now swearing has become habitual in their social life, most of them use swear words just to express some humor or display closeness in friendship rather than to insult or to show their emotion.

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