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6. Analyzing the Act Sequence in the Conversation
After obtaining the indirect speech acts of the utterances, the next step was to see the sequence of the conversation. This step was expected to reveal the act
sequences in the conversation and observe whether it had ill-sequence or not. Based on adjacency pairs, the researcher tried to analyze the coherence and the
relevance between the utterances indirect speech acts in the conversation.
7. Writing down the Report
After finishing all the steps above, the researcher made a research report. The report would summarize all parts of the research. The report contained the
description on the steps done in this research. It would present the whole research starting from the background until the conclusion.
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter elaborates this research result and findings required to answer the research questions. This chapter consists of two parts which represent the
number of the research question. Its first part focuses on discussing the indirect speech acts through the utterance in the conversation. The second part elaborates
the act sequence which performed through the utterances which are in form of question. The discussion is expected to reveal the coherence and relevance of the
conversation apart from its ill-sequence resemblance.
A. The Primary Acts of utterances in Question Only Game as Analyzed
Using Searle’s Indirect Speech Acts
This first part would address the first issue of this research interest in the Questions Only
game. As Huang 2006 and Leech 1983 point out that sentence type interrogative, among other sentences types, is recognized as performing act
of questioning. Since then, the game is assumed to have an ill-sequence conversation. As well adjacency pair suggests, question must be followed by an
answer. The conversations are, therefore, assumed to be irrelevant and incoherent since no participants give answer to the questions.
Based on Leech and Svartvik 1994 and Radford 1988 typology, there are five types of questions namely yes-no question, wh-question, tag question,
echo question, and another type of question including ellipsis and raising
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