Parentinguistic: Have Parent’s Speeches Been Effective Towards Their Children?

Abstract

Parents are responsible for guiding children on how to adapt to their surroundings by teaching them what is acceptable and what is not.. One of the ways to educate children can be conveyed through speech. This research focuses on the effectiveness of directive speech acts spoken by parents to children. This type of research is qualitative and descriptive through a pragmatic approach. The data in this study comes from directive speech acts delivered by Chris Gardner to his son, Christopher in the film Pursuit of Happyness. The data were collected using listening and note-taking techniques and then analyzed using Spradley's (2016) analysis technique. The result of this study found a total of 117 directive speech act data. The Directive Speech Act is delivered both directly and indirectly. In the direct strategy, 89 data were found, and 28 data were found in the indirect strategy. In its effectiveness, the Directive Speech Act is effective as much as 110 data, while the Directive Speech Act is ineffective as much as 7 data.