VERBAL OFFERS USED BY SNACK VENDORS IN MALANG

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyse the call utilized by the street hawkers who sold snacks in Malang, a small town in East Java. The results indicate that their utterances could be classified into five categories. Most of them observed the Gricean maxims, a few flouted them, but none disobeyed them. In general the snack vendors could be considered conforming to the cooperative principle in offering their merchandise to the hearers or the customers.

Keywords

• pragmatic analysis
• cooperative principle
• Gricean maxims
• verbal offer.