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No. Data
Types and Realizations Sociological
Factors Explanation
BR PP
NP OR
D P
R make an impact in the
world.
33. Oprah : First grade, skipped second
grade, hellerher.
The Renaissance began.
Amanda : Yeah. You’ve always had this conviction. You’ve always – it
seems like you’ve always known who you are, even if
you were – 8
√ Oprah tells about her childhood that she is out of the
kindergarten and continues to the first grade. She says that by using joke in the expression skipped second grade,
hellerher. The Renaissance began, it motivates Oprah and also the audiences enjoy the show, and then they laugh. The
social factor that influencing Oprah on performing her strategy is social distance.
34. Oprah : Well I knew I didn’t belong
there with those kids.
Amanda : You knew that. 2
√ Oprah tells when she was a child, she does not belong to the
kids when she was in kindergarten because she is different with those kids there. In the expression, she employs
negative politeness, by using hedges that is shown in Well I knew. Besides, like the previous datum, distance is a social
factor which motivates Oprah on doing the strategy.
35. Amanda : Is there anything left that
you’re scared to try?
Oprah : Whoa, Amanda. You must
have been up all night long.
5 √
Oprah’s expression is categorized as bald on record specifically task-oriented. She asks for Amanda to do the
task in which she must have been up all night long for something that makes her afraid of. The sociological factor
that influencing Oprah in that moment is rank of imposition It is because she asks for Amanda to wake up all night long.
36.
Amanda : I’ve prepared a little bit. Just a little.
Oprah : Oh. My Goodness. Anything left that I’m scared to try?
No. No, and I’m just trying to think what --- I’m just
1 √
Oprah uses positive politeness with notice and attend to hearer realization. It is proved in the statement Oh. My
Goodness. She employs that statements in order to catch the attention from the audiences, then they pay attention to her.
The context of the expression is on how Oprah explains that even though anything has gone, she is not scared to try
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No. Data
Types and Realizations Sociological
Factors Explanation
BR PP
NP OR
D P
R trying to think, well, is there
something that I haven’t thought of.
again. In addition, social distance is a factor that exists in the conversation since Oprah as a speaker and Amanda as the
host of View From The Top program.
37. Amanda : Well, there’s not much you
haven’t done so.
Oprah : Well, but I stay in my lane.
2 √
Oprah continues Amanda’s statements that is classified as negative politeness, hedge realization. It can be seen in the
word Well. She applies the word as hedge that is a polite way on how to state the statement. Like the previous datum,
social distance is a factor that motivating Oprah on performing her statement in the moment.
38. Amanda : Yeah.
Oprah : First let me answer your question.
2 √
In that occasion, Oprah Winfrey uses bald-on-record, metaphorical urgency for emphasis. It is performed in the
statement First that creates an intention to the hearer in order to make the hearer concerned with her statement and it can
be seen on how the urgency is happened in the strategy. In addition, the sociological factor that motivating Oprah does
the strategy is distance since there is the relation between the Oprah as the speaker and the students of Stanford Graduate
School of Business as the hearer.
39. Amanda : So we all know now what we
have to do, right?
Oprah : Yeah.
4 √
Oprah Winfrey performs off record on understate realization. She just answers Yeah for Amanda’s question
about what they have to do. It is called understate because she says as informative based on the question without giving
more explanation on it. Then, sociological factor that involving Oprah on doing the strategy is social distance.
40. Oprah : Are we going take some
questions?
Amanda : Well, yeah, so that’s what I wanted to say. I’d love to put
it up. 7
√ In the occasion, Oprah states the utterance to Amanda that is
categorized as positive politeness, presuppose realization. Oprah as the speaker asks Amanda that her knowledge
equals to Amanda’s knowledge. It is proved that she presupposes she will be asked again. It can be shown in Are
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