Analisis penanda wacana dan strategi komunikasi dalam surat-surat koleksi peribadi Za’ba

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2014
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Yaakub, Yusniza
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This is a study of the contents of ZA 'BA’s personal letters which have never been disclosed to the public, especially to the young generation. Specifically, the study addresses the questions with regard to the communication strategies ZA’BA employed in his personal letters. The issues are whether the communication strategies he used in his personal letters are similar to that of an official communication and whether he used other types of strategies in his written communication. In addition to these questions, the study also focuses on the elements of discourse markers i.e. the types and the functions of discourse markers employed by those who communicated with ZA’BA through letters. Accordingly, this study was carried out to identify the position of discourse markers in the context of ZA’BA’s informal correspondence. Data consisting of forty five ZA’BA’s personal collection of letters were analyzed. The letters were selected because ZA’BA was the first grammarian to have discussed this aspect and for his extensive contribution in the field of linguistics and national development. Hence, the researcher chose ZA’BA’s personal collection of letters because so far the public have only learned about ZA’BA ‘true’ self through his academic writings without knowing the language he used when communicating via informal channel i.e. his personal letters. The researcher adopted the approach introduced by Halliday(1970) which explicitly explained the functional semantic components which included ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings as the main framework of the study. The aspect of discourse markers was analyzed using the approaches of Halliday (1976), Nik Safiah et al. (2008) and Sanat (1997) while the communication strategies were analyzed using the approach of Asmah (2010 and 1988). In addition, the researcher used the framework introduced by Hymes (1972) to analyze language events in ZA’BA’s personal letters. The study found that in the ZA’BA’s personal correspondence, he utilized the following discourse markers; ‘dan’, ‘dan lagi’, ‘maka’, and ‘tetapi’ extensively. This shows that ZA’BA’s personal correspondence was still influenced by the traditional Malay language. Nevertheless he was a step ahead of his time as he had long been using aspect of communication strategy and politeness in his written correspondence. The findings also reveal that the component of functional semantic component can be used to explain the internal and external aspects of the text. These components also complement each other.
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