Promising Speech Act by the Tenth Year Students of SMAN STAR I Tahunan Jepara

The purpose of this study is to analyze pragmatic study that focuses on promising speech act delivered by Tenth Year Students of SMAN STAR 1 Tahunan Jepara. This study concentrates on analyzing the promising speech act actualized by the students, the factors that influence the students in actualizing promising speech act, how the factors influence students to deliver a promise and what dominant strategy used by the students. This research is qualitative descriptive research and the source data is document. There are two methods used to collect the data; Role play and DCT (Discourse Completion Tasks) methods. The types in analyzing the data are transcribing, coding, classifying and interpreting. The subjects of the research are 22 Tenth Year Students of SMAN STAR 1 Tahunan Jepara at sixth and eighth semester. There are 528 utterances of promising speech act that actualized by the students from the Role play and DCT data elicited. Based on the analysis, the study reveals some strategies used by the students; future action, promise-to-act and predictive assertion strategy to actualize the promise. The probable factors that influence students in actualizing the promise are distance, dominance and imposition. However, those factors (distance, dominance and imposition) are not fundamental factors that impose the students in actualizing the promise. The different combination of social parameters in some situation or circumstances delivers different strategy for students to deliver promising speech act. The different combination of the three factors in situation given, interference of students’ native language, and pragmatic transfer in the language learning process also affects students to actualize a promise strategy. The result of this study shows that the future action strategy is the dominant strategy used by the students.