THE SPEECH ACT AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN CHILDREN OF 3-5 YEARS OLD

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

A.  Background of the Study
             In  order  to  communicate  with  others,  people  use  language.  They always share their ideas to the others. This also happens to the children under five  years  old.  They  use  their  first  language  to  communicate with  the  people around them.  In the age under five years old, the children have mastered at least 200-300 words. After getting their first language acquisition, they try to talk to the others.
           However,  what  the  children  speak  or  utter  always  depends  on  what
they  needed  or  what  they  wanted.  In  the  other  words,  it  is  all  about  them, about their ego.  The  children  under  five  years  old  will  use  their  first  language acquisition to get the attention of the people around them. They try to utter in the way that they know.

            In order to convey the children meaning or intention, they also show an act  in  their  speech.  This  is  called  as  a  speech  act.  Speech  act  is  the  things which  people  usually  do  while  they  are speaking.  Speech  acts  also  known  as the minimal unit of speaking. Besides  showing  the  act of  their  speech,  the  children  under  five  years old  also  use  strategy  in  their  speech.  The  following  is  the  example  of  the speech  of  the  children.  The  following  conversation  is  the  conversation???????     ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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