Speech Functions in Conversations between Sellers and Buyers on Short Term and Long Term Lasting Commodity

Abstract

This study dealt with the speech function in conversation between sellers and buyers on short term and long term lasting commodity. It is conducted to find out the kinds of speech functions realized in conversation between sellers and buyers. The data of this study was taken from the market, with the source of data was from the conversation between sellers and buyers in 9 conversations devided into 4 conversation in long term and 5 converstion in short term and data analyzed was 232 utterances. Those utterances were analyzed in four aspects of speech function namely statement, question, offer, and command. After analyzing the data, it was found that long term there were 160 utterances with 77 statements, 62 questions, 11 offers, and 10 commands. In short term there were 72 utterances with 34 statements, 34 questions, 2 offers, and 2 commands. The speech function of statement and question almost the same precentages, it was almost 50%. Offer and command only a few percent, on long term only 7% and on short term only 3%. Statement and question was in realization of mood in declarative and interrogative, and command was in realization of mood in imperative. And the difference of utterances and using of language of the buyer and seller be seen from the tenor, differences of using the language is mostly from the age, gender, and ethnicity.