Identifying the types of illocutionary acts and the politeness strategies in Writing up the report

43 slides right before the deadline. But, when you check your work again, you find some mistakes on it and want to revise it. So, you decide to resend the email with the revised slides. What do you write on your email? According to the case, the participants had made mistakes in delivering the file to their lecturer. Therefore, they were supposed to show the act of apologizing, which belongs to expressive category, and also the act of reporting, which belongs to assertive category, because they had to tell their lecturer about the mistakes. The last case was slightly similar to the previous case. Here is the case in the fourth scenario. Scenario 4 You will have consultation on your thesisproposal seminar with your advisor on a specific day. You have arranged the schedule together with your lecturer and you have prepared yourself to have the consultation. But, on the D-day, you get a trouble getting sick or having an accident that makes you unable to come to your consultation. You want to inform your lecturer about your condition and reschedule the consultation by sending himher text message. Write down your message. In this last case, the participants were supposed to show the act of reporting assertive category to tell their lecturer about their condition. Moreover, they were also supposed to give the act of apologizing expressive category because they could not come to the scheduled time and the act of requesting directive category to ask for rescheduled time for consultation. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 44 Based on the data gathered by the researcher, the results were various. Moreover, some acts which were not expected by the researcher had been shown by the participants. Table 4.2 shows the illocutionary acts shown by the participants based on the four scenarios. Table 4.2: The Illocutionary Acts Shown by the Participants Scenario Frequency Assertive Directive Commissive Expressive Declaration None S1 - Requesting: 20 Commanding: 1 - - - 3 S2 Reporting: 22 Requesting: 8 Advising: 1 - - - 1 S3 Reporting: 20 Requesting: 8 Promising: 1 Apologizing: 9 - - S4 Reporting: 5 Requesting: 14 Offering: 1 Apologizing: 20 - - Table 4.2 shows the summary of the result, the complete result can be seen in Appendix C. Reading table 4.2, we can see that the results were various. There were some acts which were not expected by the researcher but they appeared in participants‟ responses. Even, there were some participants who did not give any act when they responded to the cases. They only gave information which was needed related to the topic of the case. In the first scenario, each of the participants only gave one act when responding to the case. Most of them showed the act of requesting 20 messages, which belonged to directive category. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI