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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn our daily life, people ask someone to do something. Getting someone to
do something is directive. In the workplace, the occurrence of directives deals
with getting all things done. The writer studied the use of directives from
subordinate to superior in the workplace that was at Petra Christian University
Library. The writers wanted to know what types of directives were used by female
part time students toward the staffs. By using the theory of directives proposed by
Ervin-Tripp (1976), the writer analyzed the use of directives utterances from two
female part time students toward three male staffs and three female staffs. The
writer also took natural conversation as the source of data. As a result, the writer
found that almost all types of directives were used by female part time students
when they got conversation with the staff. The structures used to express
directives were imperative, interrogative and declarative. There were also
similarities and differences between directives utterances used by female part time
students to male staffs and to female staffs. One of the similarities was one type of
directives did not occur that were embedded imperative. For the difference, need
statement did not occur in the conversation from female part time students toward
male staffs. Finally, the writer hopes that this study can give information about
directives from female subordinates to male and female superiors.