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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelSuggestion is a request by the speaker that the addressee does something
of benefit to the addressee. In this study, the researcher observed the suggestion
expressions produced by some Petra Christian University - English Department
Students as the foreign language speakers of English. She chose the students who
are active in organization with the expectation that the findings can give view to
the related course as well as the discovery of some knowledge with the help of
Searle?s theory of the nature of giving advice in varying degrees of strength. In
order to reveal the result, the researcher had managed a systematic study and by
using the instruments of role guide of ten created situations, the researcher got the
data for this study. The created situations were variedly made based on the levels
of problems in order to get all the data considering the suggestion expressions
produced by the Indonesian respondents as the foreign language speakers of
English. More over, the data were categorized in ten types of suggestions by using
Blum- Kulka?s theory of the pairing of suggestion formula with mitigation
strategy which are: indirect (mitigated), indirect (unmitigated), interrogative
(mitigated), interrogative (unmitigated), first person (1p) Modal (mitigated), 1p
Modal (unmitigated), second person (2p) Modal (mitigated), 2p Modal
(unmitigated), imperative (mitigated), and imperative (unmitigated). Finally, the
researcher found that the students as the subject of the study suggest indirectly or
in other words they are less likely to express the illocutionary force-indicating
devices (IFIDs), and they also use the mitigation words to soften the direct
meaning. While in each level problem, the used suggestion types are vary
corresponds to the formality and the seriousness of the situation.