pronoun I and the word need that means speaker has power to control the request. The word need forces the requestee to perform the request. Furthermore, Becky
performs Jules‘s desired.
d. Direct Requests
Direct request is a kind of requests that shows the intention of request explicitly. It is a simple way to request someone in order to ask the requestee to
perform an action. Thus, the intention is easy to understand by the requestee. The conversation below occurs between Jules and her assistant, Becky.
The conversation happens when Jules finishes her job to have a service phone call to her customer service, Becky comes to inform her schedule. Furthermore, Jules
reaches her bike and Becky tells her schedule. She always rides her bike in the office in order to make everything fast and she calls it as an exercise.
Jules : Oh, good. I forgot about that. I want to figure out a way for
girlfriends to shop together on line...make it less of an alone thing. E-mail me that idea, will ya?
Becky : Yeah, I like that. writing quickly, takes out Phone Is now a good time to call your mother back?
Datum 1 Direct request is used by Jules when she hardly remembers all the things
by saying Make it less of an alone thing. E-mail me that idea, will ya? Jules
says this request to Becky in order to demand her to send an email about the idea.
She straightly says the request by stating what she wants. By adding will ya?
marker, the request is soft although the example belongs to direct request. Jules‘s
utterance is easy to be understood by Becky since it is a direct request.
Another example of direct request is the dialogue between Jules and Ben. It takes place in the airplane. They are heading to San Francisco. Jules has an
interview with a CEO in there. Thus, Ben accompanies her because her husband cannot escort her to San Francisco. In the plane, both of them are busy with
themselves. Jules works with her laptop and Ben reads some papers. Suddenly, Ben thinks that they have the day off. Hence, Ben requests Jules to do some fun
things in order to neglect the tasks. The dialogue is presented below. Ben
: Jules, what are we doin‘ here? We got the day off. We‘re travelin‘ in first class. starts packing up his papers
Let’s at least have a little fun
. Jules : Now, that, I can do.
Datum 30 Ben says the reason why they are there. He requests Jules by saying
Let’s at least have a little fun
. The
Let’s marker is indicating an invitation that leads to
a request. Ben wants Jules to stop thinking about their works since they are in their way to San Francisco. He uses direct request to show the request toward
Jules. Direct request is simpler than other types of request to express Ben‘s desire that he does not want to see Jules works overtime. Ben thinks that Jules needs a
relax time to meet the CEO.
2. Strategies of Request Employed by the Main Characters in The Intern
