Contoh Analysis Speech Act

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Subject           : Discourse Analysis – Speech Act
            In this conversation, there were two university students, as the interlocutors) who were joining TEFL II class in the morning. The situation was quite silent because a presentation was being conducted by a group of presentation in front of the class. While the presentation was being done, they were chatting. Didin was handling his laptop (while laughing) and showing an email to Wildan which contained a reply message from someone and I was sitting between them. It was a response from someone toward a short story that had ever been sent by Didin to that person before. The psychological setting at that time was quite normal like other people following the class. Here are their words:

Didin       : “Wildan, ini Katanya konfliknya kurang digarap, meluas”
Wildan    : “Nte’ ku kirimin opo’o Diiiiin…”
Didin       : “iyo ntar”

I make an analysis toward this conversation using Barch and Harnish’s speech act Theory. This conversation is a kind of conventional conversation which can be identified through the agreement between the interlocutors. Because as I can see that actually the situation was quite different. Didin directly gave and shown that email to Wildan and not to me who was sitting next to him. It means that actually there has been an agreement between both of them before. The agreement to also send wildan’s short story to Didin’s friend (A person who mailed Didin) to be corrected by that person. It can be identified through the utterance given by Wildan which immediately uttered “Nte’ ku kirimin opo’o Diiiiin…” He did not ask question what did DIdin mean like I did, or he did not ask what is that to Didin. I directly asked to didin what did he mean by that email. Wildan can directly response in that way because he had have an agreement with Didin before. The agreement may be a promise to also send wildan’s short story to the corrector. Wildan wanted his short story to be seen and responded by that corrector also, because wildan might know the capability of the corrector in writing short stories. Didin also did not start that conversation by telling a story which might be this way “Dan, aku kan pernah ngirim cerpen ku ke seseorang, dan ini respon dia”. He did not do that. It might be possible for Didin to do that if that utterance given for me, because I did not know what he is talking about by showing that email. While he was laughing, DIdin intentionally uttered “Wildan, ini Katanya konfliknya kurang digarap, meluas”. It means that actually Didin had assumed that wildan will understand what he was talking about while he is showing the email containing the suggestion for Didin’s short story. That is called as the agreement which has been exist between the interlocutors. Therefore, this conversation is categorized as Conventional.

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