2. Functions of Illocutionary Acts in the Movie ‘Smart People’ In the simplest sense, the word ‘function’ may be synonymous with the word ‘use’ or ‘meaning’. People perform activities with their language: that is, they expect to achieve an objective in speaking, writing, listening and reading. Competence in language is not simply the mastery of forms of language but the mastery of forms in order to accomplish the communicative functions of language, such as, to apologize, to greet, to disagree, to accuse, to warn and so on. Mastery of structural regularities of language remains a very passive asset if speakers do not exploit these forms for the purpose of transmitting and receiving thoughts, ideas and feelings between speaker and hearer or
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Based on Leech (1983:105) stated there were 4 classifications of illocutionary act’s functions, are: 1) competitive, means that the goal of utterance is competitive with social goal. It includes: ordering, requesting, demanding and begging. Competitive function in the film’s Smart People” conversation includes only ordering and requesting. 2) Convivial, means that the goal of illocutionary act occurred at the same time with social goal. It includes: offering, inviting, thanking and congratulating. Convivial function in the film ‘Smart People’ conversation includes: offering, thanking and congratulating. 3) Collaborative, means illocution goal has no concern to the social goal. It includes: asserting, reporting, announcing and teaching. In this movie, it includes asserting and reporting. And the last, 4) conflictive, means that the illocution’s goal is contradicted to the social goal. It includes threatening, criticizing and complaining. In this film, it includes …show more content…
representative, b. directives, c. commisives, d. expressives, and e. directives. Those aspects have the function to convey the messages in the movie. Here, the explanation of those aspects, as follow: a. representative commits the speaker to something being case, or to the truth of the expressed proposition. In this movie, it is classified into 78 utterances in which divided into asserting consists of 48 utterances, suggesting consists of 7 utterances, reporting consists of 7 utterances and complaining consists of 16 utterances; b. Directive, which are attempts by the speaker to some future course of action. In this movie, it is classified into 98 utterances in which divided into requestive consists of 20 utterances, ordering consists 40 utterances, questioning consists of 26 utterances and advising consists of 10 utterances; c. Commisive, commit the speaker to some future course of action. In this movie, it is classified into 11 utterances in which divided into offering consists of 8 utterances, promising consists of 2 utterances and threatening consists of only 1 utterance; d. expressive expresses a psychological state, or giving an expression full of feeling and meaning. In this movie, it is classified into 55 utterances in which divided into thanking consists of 14 utterances, congratulating consists of 11 utterances, protesting consists of 18 utterances and apologizing
Based on Leech (1983:105) stated there were 4 classifications of illocutionary act’s functions, are: 1) competitive, means that the goal of utterance is competitive with social goal. It includes: ordering, requesting, demanding and begging. Competitive function in the film’s Smart People” conversation includes only ordering and requesting. 2) Convivial, means that the goal of illocutionary act occurred at the same time with social goal. It includes: offering, inviting, thanking and congratulating. Convivial function in the film ‘Smart People’ conversation includes: offering, thanking and congratulating. 3) Collaborative, means illocution goal has no concern to the social goal. It includes: asserting, reporting, announcing and teaching. In this movie, it includes asserting and reporting. And the last, 4) conflictive, means that the illocution’s goal is contradicted to the social goal. It includes threatening, criticizing and complaining. In this film, it includes …show more content…
representative, b. directives, c. commisives, d. expressives, and e. directives. Those aspects have the function to convey the messages in the movie. Here, the explanation of those aspects, as follow: a. representative commits the speaker to something being case, or to the truth of the expressed proposition. In this movie, it is classified into 78 utterances in which divided into asserting consists of 48 utterances, suggesting consists of 7 utterances, reporting consists of 7 utterances and complaining consists of 16 utterances; b. Directive, which are attempts by the speaker to some future course of action. In this movie, it is classified into 98 utterances in which divided into requestive consists of 20 utterances, ordering consists 40 utterances, questioning consists of 26 utterances and advising consists of 10 utterances; c. Commisive, commit the speaker to some future course of action. In this movie, it is classified into 11 utterances in which divided into offering consists of 8 utterances, promising consists of 2 utterances and threatening consists of only 1 utterance; d. expressive expresses a psychological state, or giving an expression full of feeling and meaning. In this movie, it is classified into 55 utterances in which divided into thanking consists of 14 utterances, congratulating consists of 11 utterances, protesting consists of 18 utterances and apologizing