How was the meeting? question 2
Sara : Well, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end.
answer If Alex choose Sara in turn for his question “ How was the meeting ? ”, so Alex
must stop speaking, and Sara must speak next by answering the Alex’s question. Table 4.2 shows that the main character such as Alex Hitches and Sara Mendes
produces 240 turns. Alex Hitches produces 120 turns and Sara Mendes produces 120 turns. It shows that they are equal for turns to talk to each other. As a result, in their conversation,
Alex and Sara have the good responses who produces turns.
4.2.1.2 The Number of Moves A move is a unit after which speaker change could occur without turn
transfer being seen as an interruption. The move is a unit of discourse organization, not grammar, and is therefore a separate unit from the clause. However, while the clause and
the move are distinct units, so fundamental to language structure, move is realized by a clause: that is, most clauses are moves, and most moves are clauses.
Move is the unit which expressed in speech functions in discourse. It is closely related to the turn-taking organization of conversation. In determining whether in a
particular instance a clause is move, the grammatical dependence or independence of the clause must be considered. Hence examples such as the following are easy to treat as three
moves: 1
Alex i Sorry ii I’m late, honey
ii I couldn’t get a cab In the conversation, besides producing the turns, the main characters, Alex and Sara
also produce 496 moves. Alex gets 278 moves and Sara gets 218 moves. It describes that Alex is the dominant speaker who makes more moves.
4.3 The Analysis of Speech Function in “ Hitch” movie
4.3.1 Statement
Statement as a speech function has a purpose to give information. This speech function is used to expr
ess the speaker’s ideas or to sure and receive that information. The conversation transcript contains a dialogue between two persons; they are Alex
and Sara . After analyzing the conversation transcript, the researcher finds out that the commodity mostly exchanged in this research is the information.
There are 107 statements in the conversation transcript.
Alex makes 50 statements and Sara makes 57 statements. It indicates that the speaker who produces the highest number of speech function
“statement‟ is Sara. She is the dominant speaker who plays the role as the giver by giving some
information. The interpersonal roles that they created are Sara as a woman who meets a man
who makes her fall in love because the man have a good personality and Alex as a man who was loved by Sarah.
The speech function ‘statement’ which is produced by Alex is as follows: Excerpt 1:
Speech Function Turnmoves
Speaker Utterances
Statement 17
Alex i Gossip never sleeps.
Contradiction 18
Sara i No till about : 4 a.m
Excerpt 1 shows that speech function ‘ statement’ which is used by the speakers Alex is giving information to Sara. The utterance “ Gossip never sleeps” in turn 17 it
means that Alex gives information to Sara. He thinks gossip never sleeps, so Sarah always busy about her jobs, every time and every day she always asked for information and news.
On the other hand, Sara gives a confronting resp onse by contradiction Alex’s statement.
She says “No till about : 4 a.m”, it means she worked until 4 a.m, after that she had a free time.
Excerpt 2: Speech Function
Turnmoves Speaker
Utterances Statement
21 Alex
ii without regard…. Acknowledgement
22 Sara
i Okay, Webster, how … Excerpt 2 shows that speech function ‘ statement’ which is used by the speakers
Alex is giving information to Sara. The utterance “ Without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure. Over ” in turn 21 it means that Alex gives information to
Sara. On the other hand, Sara gives a supporting response by acknowledging Alex’s statement. She says okay.
Excerpt 3: Speech Function
Turnmoves Speaker
Utterances Statement
29 Alex
i Good morning. Contradiction
30 Sara
i Good” would have been at 10:00.
Excerpt 3 shows that speech function ‘ statement’ which is used by the speakers Alex is giving information to Sara. The utterance “ Good morning” in turn 29 it means that
