“SORRY†EXPRESS BY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN CIMAHI : SOCIAL CULTURAL EFFECT ON LANGUAGE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22460/project.v3i4.p518-524Abstract
Language is tool that use by human for communicate, and as tool to support them as social creature.
Language is used by human every day in every situation, that make language become interesting
phenomenon. During learning and teaching process that happen in class researcher find out the
phenomenon that student use word “sorry†in context of asking permission not context for asking
apology or expressing sympathy based on . Methodology of this research is qualitative with descriptive
design. The instrument that use is observation, researcher is do observation in classroom activity on the
class , and data is find from utterance that make by student during classroom activity. The result of this
research most of student use word “sorry†in context of asking permission not for asking apologize. To
understand the bigger concept of word sorry better to use bigger subject in research.
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