Conversational Strategies in All Male and All Female Conversation
Nurima Rizki Dongoran, Rahmad Husein, Anni Holila Pulungan
Universitas Negeri Medan
English Applied Linguistics Study Program
Jalan Willem Iskandar Psr. V 20221
Medan, Indonesia
Abstract
This research aimed to investigate the conversational strategies in all male and all female conversations. This research was conducted at a bakery involving four male speakers and three female speakers. This research applied descriptive qualitative design. The data of this research were speakers utterances which contain features of conversational strategies taken from recorded conversations. The results revealed that the differences of all male and all female conversational strategies are not very great in which conversational strategies in all male and all female conversations similarly performed in a collaborative way. The result showed that minimal response was the most dominant strategy used in both of all male and all female conversations.
Keywords: conversational strategy, all male, all female
Topic: Social,Language and Cultural Education