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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelPhatic function is a part of interactional function of
language that is normally used to establish and maintain
relationship with other people. The assumption that Indonesian
people have a great sense of communal, makes the writer curious to
know about phatic function, especially how 'phatic' is expressed in
Indonesian cultural setting.
As the source of data, the writer uses sinetron 'Si Doel Anak
Sekolahan III, episodes 'Keterbukaan' and 'Yang Tersesat Dalam
Mimpi' . She is interested to investigate the phatic utterances
that are found in the conversations, in terms of sentence types ,
and also lexical items in which she groups them into their semantic
and syntactic classes of words . The classification is intended to
get the common ideas of lexical fields which are normally used by
characters to convey phatic utterances. The phatic use in the
episodes are identified based on Malinowski's concepts of phatic,
that phatic communion is where the words do not convey meaning but
have a purely social function.
As a result of the study, she finds that there are 80 phatic
utterances found in the analysis. Many of them are conveyed in the
lexical field of familiarity and daily activities are mostly
conveyed in the type of interrogative sentence.