Pikir Wisnu Wijayanto
Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2019
Keywords: Contrastive analysis, English imperatives, Javanese imperatives
Published on: 13 September 2019
This study aims to identify the similarities and differences between the functions of imperative sentences of English and Javanese languages. The contrastive analysis used as the research method to compare the two different languages. Based on the analysis, in the English imperative sentence, there are seven functions which are a command, prohibition, invitation, request, advice, suggestion, and compulsion. While, in the Javanese imperative sentence, it has nine functions, which are a command, prohibition, invitation, request, advice, suggestion, compulsion, panantang, and pangece.
ISSN 1511-3701
e-ISSN 2231-8542