CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Human
1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Human being as a social community part needs language to express idea. Moreover, language is also used to communicate with other people. Language is a tool to make human relationship in social life. Language makes human easier to exchange information and to express their ideas. Therefore language as a communication instrument is used by people to convey messages, ideas, feelings, information, etc. There is no human activities without language. Language is used for doing social interaction. It means that language is used by people to get information from others, for example when they need information about price, things, time, etc. They use language to ask someone else. In other word, language is used by people as a communication instrument, spoken language and written language. First, spoken language is a language which is directly spoken by the speaker, like interview, dialogue, etc. Second, written language is a kind of indirect communication by writing texts, like magazine, journal, letter, and etc. Accordingly, language and communication are two things that cannot be separated. Communication will happen if people use language to communicate with others. 1 2 Communication means a process of exchanging information between one person to another person, through a symbol, a sign or attitude. In communication there is information, but there is also a process to give goods and services, and to convey information, like gossips, sharing, etc. The result of communication is a discourse. Discourse is an authentic product of socially linguistic interaction. In other word, discourse is a product when people use language as a tool to communicate with others.
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