The study on Pragmatic Analysis in Javanese Children's Dolanan Songs

Abstract

The study conducts a pragmatic analysis of Javanese children’s dolanan songs, which embed profound moral lesson designed to foster character development in young listeners. This research holds particular relevance given the substantive educational value in these utterances. It addresses the challenge of delineating the forms of speech acts within Javanese children’s dolanan songs from a pragmatic perspective. The objective of this study is to describe these utterance forms in Javanese Children’s Play Songs drawing on pragmatic principles. This research employed a literature-based methodology. The strategy involved in a process of textual analysis with speech act theory to scrutinize the utterances embedded in the lyrics of Javanese children's play songs. Through this analysis, the pragmatic dimensions of the speech acts present in these Javanese songs were identified. The findings revealed that the principle of speech acts in Javanese children's play songs in accordance with established pragmatic frameworks.

Keywords: speech acts, maxims, pragmatics, play songs, children

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/108-06

Publication date:October 31^st 2025