HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY TENDENCY LANGUAGE ACT CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS CLASS OF VIII AT SMP NEGERI 1 PARIAMAN

Abstract

People who have histrionic personality disorder also need attention in communicating. The process of communication is also one of the processes in the growth of children. Through the communication process, namely through the speech delivered by the child, it can imply expressiveness which functions to express feelings and attitudes and the atmosphere that is being faced by the speaker at that time. This study aims to describe the forms and meanings of language acts, histrionic personality tendencies, case studies of students at SMP Negeri 1 Pariaman. This type of research is qualitative research using descriptive methods. The data source of this research is students of SMP Negeri 1 Pariaman with histrionic personality tendencies. The data in this study were recorded speeches of SMP Negeri 1 Pariaman students with histrionic personality tendencies. Data was collected by recording and note-taking techniques. The results of the data analysis show that the forms of language acts with histonic personality disorder are seen through expressive speech forms, the expressive speech acts found are speech acts of saying sorry, saying thank you, speech criticizing, and speech praising. The most dominant speech is the speech criticizing. The meaning contained is referential. The referential meaning conveyed in the utterance can be seen from the words beautiful, smart. From the speech delivered by the speaker, the speech is directly addressed to the speech partner, and can be accepted by the speech partner, they immediately understand the intent of the speech delivered by the speaker.