30 commissive category. The text writer is in order to invite himself and other people
to wait and see the progress in the last sentence. Therefore, we can see the result later. The text writer invites other people to do the action together. He and other
people make the commitment.
3. Directive Category
Searle 1976 says that directive speech act is that the speaker requests the hearer to do something
. The speaker wants the readers to do the speaker’s willingness. The researcher found out 50 directive categories in TYS column see
Table 4.17. The text writer used declarative, imperative, and interrogative sentences to show the category.
Here are the examples of researcher’s findings: a.
Declarative 7
TE.41 The haze has caused numerous emergency situations. It brings about
enormous economic, social and environmental losses. Again and again, due to a lack of courage, bringing forest and land-burning perpetrators to court
is not easy. Officers should embrace the community and ask them to actively report on
every land clearing activity. The offenders should be forced to restore environmental conditions, and
they should be required to pay heavy fines.
The text has two speech act categories. Those are assertive and directive categories. In the last two sentences, the text writer shows directive speech act
category. He shows the category through declarative sentence. The text writer suggests that the officers ask the society to report actively. Then, the offenders are
asked to pay heavy fines and restore the environmental condition. It is clear that the text writer uses period in the end of the sentence.
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8 TM.89
A suggestion to Sucofindo and to related government departments: Please, Sucofindo should extend its services to be available 24 hours, seven
days a week to increase export activities of non-oil and gas.
From the text, the text writer uses directive category in the sentence. It is clear that he uses declarative text to show directive category. The purpose is to ask
other people to do an action . The clue is the modal ‘should’. In the text, the text
writer suggests that Sucofindo and related government departments to extend the service. Therefore, the export activity of non-oil and gas can be increased.
b. Imperative
9 TB.13
Make sure there are smoking lounges and make security personnel tell smokers to use them.
The text has one speech act category. It is clear that the speaker uses imperative sentence. The imperative sentence means the text writer asks other
people to do something. The clue is ‘make sure…and make …’ The text writer wants the official to convince that smoking lounges is available so that the smokers are
able to use them. Its imperative sentence is the characteristic of which shows directive category. Other people should do what the text writer wants.
10 TB.26
Smoking is indeed a nasty habit. What would happen if our own wives fell into the nicotine trap?
First she could keep it secretly from her dear husband, but 3the urge for nicotine would surely give her away eventually.
Wouldn’t any passing good-looking woman drive him crazy? His wife with a cigarette in her mouth would call him matakeranjang womanizer, while
her husband would call her back: keranjangmata air bucket of tears. The
best way to stop smoking? Don’t start. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
32 In the last sentence, the text writer uses imperative sentence. The text writer
uses word ‘don’t …’ From the text, the readers are forbidden to start smoking. In his opinion, it is
the best way to stop smoking. In this case, the text writer’s imperative text shows directive category. The text writer asks the other people to
do an action. c.
Interrogative 11
TE.36 Can somebody fix this once and for all? No other nation has this problem,
so perhaps we should send our representatives abroad to learn how to deal with it?
The text has one speech act category. All consist of the interrogative sentences. Through the interrogative sentence, the text writer shows his directive
category. The text writer wants the readers do something responding the issue. The text writer thinks that other nations do not have this problem. He requests someone
andor representatives to fix this problem. 12
TI.69 This is a very pertinent comment. Details about routes and implementation
are very much scarce. If you compare this to — for example — the London
Crossrail project — which has a powerful marketing and information
campaign then there is clear reason to be pessimistic. What is very disappointing is that the press has not pushed for more details.
Other press sources state that much of the LRT will run within existing toll roads operated by PT JasaMarga. Can we have more information about
this, please?
From the last example, we can see that the text writer still uses the directive category in the text. He uses the request in the last sentences using interrogative
sentence. The text writer requests to have more information about the project. Therefore, there is no miscommunication and misunderstanding toward the project.
