Directive Illocutionary Act Context of Situation

other aspects related to them such as statues, roles, occupation, and etc. Meanwhile, mode is associated with how the conversation happens.

2.2.5 Dialogue

Based on the theory of communication from Wilbur Schramm, Communication is something people do. There is no meaning in a message except what people put into it. To understand human communication process, one must understand how people relate to each other. Added to the model the context of the relationship, and how that relationship will affect. Included the social environment in the model, noting that it will influence the frame of reference of participants. To change a situation or environment or constructively deal with any issue, there first needs to be dialogue. Dialogue is a communication tool that allows people to understand other viewpoints without pitting themselves against different perspectives. In dialogue, there is no defending of opinions, and no counterpoints. When individuals or groups have different perspectives and see issues differently, dialogue can be employed as an effective communication tool to help the parties understand each others point of view. Dialogue brings people together who would not naturally sit down together and talk about important issues. It is a process to successfully relate to people who are different from you. Their differences can include gender, religion, work departments, cultures, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or age.

2.3 Theoretical Framework

In theoretical framework, the selected theories that used to analyze the data of the study were presented in more detail. This subchapter was divided into two; they were the classification of illocutionary acts and the theory of context situation. The main theory providing the classification of illocutionary acts was based on The Taxonomy of Elementary Illocutionary Acts by J.R. Searle. Meanwhile, Halliday’s theory of context of situation 1989 was used to cope with the analysis of this study. The theory of speech act would interact with the theory of context of situation since illocutionary acts was a part of speech acts. When the speaker uttered something to the hearer, the utterance would be decided whether it belonged to one of the kinds of the kinds of illocutionar y acts based on Searle’s theory of illocutionary acts. If the utterance belonged to the illocutionary acts, there must be an intended meaning that the speaker wanted the hearer to understand. To find what exactly intended meaning was, the theory of context of situation was needed, because it was impossible to guess the intended meaning without looking at the context or situation or condition. However, it was clear that illocutionary as a part of speech acts could not be separated from the context of situation and all of them were related one another.

2.3.1 Illocutionary Acts

The main theory which was use to analyze the data in this study was speech act theory proposed by John R. Searle, especially the categorization of illocutionary acts and its meaning. Ac cording to Searle’s Taxonomy in