Utterance

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…

particular condition in a situation. The data collected was taken from sample of speech act in movie ‘Smart People’. Analyzing the data used the pragmatic approach. It used to relate actors’ and actress’ utterances and their function in the dialogue of movie. The main source of the data was the utterances of the movie ‘Smart People’. Collecting the data used ethnography fieldwork way (or observation). Wolfson (1983) stresses using “ethnography fieldwork” as the only reliable method of data…

Speech act studies present situation in which speaker encodes a message and sent to a hearer, with a certain intention, and then hearer start decoding this message to realize what is the prelocution required from him by prelocutioanry intention of the speaker. The right understanding of prelection results in felitious conditions. The target of speech act is mainly to let the hearer ends up with the original intention of the speaker; of which surface meaning wouldn't always be enough to obtain…

is important to decode a whole utterance and its meaning (Searle, 1976). John L. Austin was responsible for laying the foundation of the Speech Act Theory on which the idea was mainly used in both linguistics…

A movie entitled The Godfather is chosen as object in this analysis. Don Corleone as one of main character chosen as source data. Regarding utterance from Don Corleone this movie presents a numbered of presupposition in various context. Then relation between presupposition and context obtains a certain meaning of an utterance. As considering, statement from Stalnaker who said that context influences content, while content can creates a context because sometimes word that say has a function not…

when he ask Bonasera to give treatment to Sony’s wounds in order to Sony have better look before his funeral ceremony. Presuppositions that can be derived from part of the data 11 is from utterance ‘I want you to use all your powers and all your skills’. The writer found a possessive construction in the utterance which is indicates as existential presupposition type. Phrase such, ‘your powers’ and ‘your skill’ sketch the existence things that Bonasera had. Moreover, this used of presupposition…

appropriate utterances (including what to say in what context as well as what not to say, how to speak in one context as opposed to another). In the same light, Bachman (1990: 94) states that sociolinguistic competence refers to “the sensitivity to or control of the specific language context”. Similarly, Canale and Swain (1980, 30) admit that sociolinguistic competence refers to the knowledge of socicultural rules of use and rules of discourse that are needed in interpreting utterances.…

tomorrow at five. I feel like my head is going to explode! Chandler: Well, it is overdue. Ross: Look, don’t worry. Okay? You’re gonna be fine The utterance above shows that Ross minimized antipathy between himself and other. The utterance "don't worry. Okay?" is uttered when Ross felt sad for his friend Joey. Thus, the utterance asserted by Ross is classified into the sympathy maxim which is used in order to calm his friend. Correspondingly, the way …

Zhiyuan Li Philosophy 3000 In his paper Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited, Graeme Forbes tries to articulate Putnam’s brains in a vat (BIV) argument. According to Forbes (1995), in order for a normally embodied thinker to think about concepts such as brain, in and vat, she “must somehow be informationally linked to” instances of those concepts (206). However, Forbes does not consider (and it seems to me that he does not think he needs to consider) what particular sorts of…

listener’s ability to understand beyond the language and get the speaker’s real intentions (e.g. indirect speech acts, irony and sarcasm); and 3) the command of the rules by which utterances come together to create discourse. Rintell (1997) also argues that L2 learner pragmatic ability is reflected in how they produce utterances in the target language in order to convert particular intentions and how they interpret intentions communicated through the interlocutor’s…