The Realization of Interpersonal Negotiation in the Conversation

• Main Author: Elysa Hartati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Mercu Buana Yogyakarta 2015-12-01
• Series: Jurnal Of English Language And Education
• Online Access: http://ejurnal.mercubuana-yogya.ac.id/index.php/jele/article/view/166

This study aimed toinvestigate how the students of English Department of the State University of Semarang realize interpersonal negotiation in their conversation and find out what kinds of problems that emerge when the students have an interpersonal negotiation in their conversation.In analyzing the data, the descriptive qualitative approach was employed with small quantification was made to support the analysis. Besides, the choices of mood, modality, speech roles as well as clause category were applied to analyze the data.The research findings showed that from the observation towards 10 (ten) students done by practicing the conversation in pairs, there were only 3 (three) pairs that could realize the interpersonal negotiation in their conversation. Most of students used declarative mood types (56.6%) more in their conversation. It indicated that they wanted to initiate the exchanges by giving information more often. The modality that they used most was probability modalization (41.2%). With high and medium categories of probability, the students expressed their idea of the situation given.Though the students produced declarative mood more in their conversation, it did not directly indicate that they could realize interpersonal negotiation well. Most of the declaratives produced was more maintaining the information exchange. The giving speech roles of the clauses produced by the students sometimes were inappropriate with the topic being discussed. It made the conversation inconvenient. Even though the use of modalization and modulation to express interpersonal negotiation was not problematic, they did not use it optimally; only 17 clauses out of 143 clauses made use of them. Keywords : realization, interpersonal negotiation, conversation