Woro Retnaningsih, Sujito, Wildan Mahir Muttaqin, Nuning Kurniasih, Langgeng Budianto, Imam Ghozali, Prim Masrokan Mutohar, Djoko Susanto, Aris Widodo, Adi Loka
Following the rapid growth of the social media communication technology worldwide, WhatsApp (WA) becomes one of the most practical means to corelate students and lecturers. In fact, students are able to contact their lecturers anytime they need to confirm any other task and assigment. However, to contact the lecturers, students have frequently need the appropriate speech act strategy to convey thir intention. While several studies have addressed this issue by focusing on the use of hedgs to express politeness in WA to express politeness, and violations are found in approbation maxim. In an attempt to fill this gap, of 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 tehcnique is screen shoot the written document of speech act used by students when communicating with lecturers by using WA. The investigation reveals that, the most widely 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 cooperation with the lecturers. This study argues that students send WA to the lecturers with the various purposes. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of English Language Education, IAIN Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia; Faculty of Communication Sciences, Library and Information Program, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia; Department of English Language Education, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim, Malang, Indonesia; Department of English Language Education, Universitas Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Graduate Program, IAIN Tulungagung, Tulungagung, Indonesia; Letters and Language Department, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim, Malang, Indonesia; Department of Sharia, IAIN Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia; English Department, Universitas Widyagama, Malang, Indonesia
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