By
Elvi Rahmawati
02004139
ABSTRACT
Elvi Rahmawati
02004139
ABSTRACT
This research is aimed at giving the description of the characteristics of the Internet Relay Chatting (IRC) conversations. It focuses on the function of onomatopoeia commonly used in the IRC conversations, the conversational features that organize the conversations, and the contribution of the IRC to the academic community.
This research is descriptive; it applies the purposive sampling technique. It takes six buffer chats of two English chat channels, which are taken from August – September 2006. The data are collected by doing observations and chatting activities. For the validation of the data, this research applied triangulation by using theory triangulation, i.e. comparing those data findings with the relevant theory, and investigator triangulation, i.e. discussing with other people who are considered more knowledgeable about linguistics.
The findings of this research reveal that the function of onomatopoeia is to express an impression and an emotion of the chatters. The findings also reveal that the organization of the IRC conversations makes use of some conversational features i.e. opening sequence, topic, turn taking, adjacency pair, repair, and closing sequence. The IRC conversations are disrupted and discontinuous since many different topic strands are carried out simultaneously, the response to a turn is delayed and many adjacency pairs are intermingled temporally. Finally yet importantly, the IRC indeed offers valuable contribution to the academic community. The contribution is especially to the interlanguage and second language acquisition: the IRC facilitates the second language acquisition as a bridge to oral interaction, encourages learners to exchange information in the chats, and promotes distance interlanguage courses or schools.
This research is descriptive; it applies the purposive sampling technique. It takes six buffer chats of two English chat channels, which are taken from August – September 2006. The data are collected by doing observations and chatting activities. For the validation of the data, this research applied triangulation by using theory triangulation, i.e. comparing those data findings with the relevant theory, and investigator triangulation, i.e. discussing with other people who are considered more knowledgeable about linguistics.
The findings of this research reveal that the function of onomatopoeia is to express an impression and an emotion of the chatters. The findings also reveal that the organization of the IRC conversations makes use of some conversational features i.e. opening sequence, topic, turn taking, adjacency pair, repair, and closing sequence. The IRC conversations are disrupted and discontinuous since many different topic strands are carried out simultaneously, the response to a turn is delayed and many adjacency pairs are intermingled temporally. Finally yet importantly, the IRC indeed offers valuable contribution to the academic community. The contribution is especially to the interlanguage and second language acquisition: the IRC facilitates the second language acquisition as a bridge to oral interaction, encourages learners to exchange information in the chats, and promotes distance interlanguage courses or schools.
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