Speech Act of Refusal In Indonesian Talk Show As Art of Rhetoric

Abstract

Talking titles on television can be used as guidelines in developing language skills, ranging from interviewing skills, debate, and also speech art of refusal. The focus of the problem in this research is how to speech art of refusal contained in speech titles in Indonesia. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with a descriptive approach and data collection using the technique of listening and note taking. Based on this research, 29 speech act of refusal were found divided into 6 strategies, namely the speech act refuse strategy with a statement of denial, the direct speech act of refusal strategy, the speech act refuse by denial, the speech act refuse with clarification, the speech act refuse with a new statement , the speech act strategy refusal with promises in the future, and the speech act of refusal with the delegation of mistakes.