Good, Agus. M-215723:26-23:27

d. Commissives

Commisives are those kinds of speech acts performed by speakers to commit themselves to future actions. In this study, commissives appeared in 7 utterances. The illocutionary force of commissives found in this study were offering, promising and granting. Offering was the most used illocutionary force of commissives utilized by the teacher during the English teaching and learning process. It was realized in 4 utterances. Meanwhile, the least performed commissives was that of granting which appeared only in 1 utterance. 1 Offering Offering is performed to ask someone whether they would like to do or to have something. An example of the act of offering is shown in the following utterances: The teacher produced the utterances during the listening section. She firstly told her students that they were going to have listening section for that meeting. She tried to introduce it to her students because they would have it on the next semester. After that, she offered the students the soft-file of the recording. T: OK. So, we will plan the listening again. Why? Because next semester, you will also have test on listening. The listening is like this. I try to make the form of the listening that will appear next semester. Two December I think or December second. So, later I will give it to you. So, please… You want to have it or not? S: Yes. M-28102:03-02:36 The example above shows that the teacher made an offer to his students by saying “You want to have it or not?” The teacher made an offer to her students by using interrogative form. Her utterance was successfully performed and her intended message was received by the students. It can be seen by the students’ response who accepted the teacher’s response by saying “yes”. When performing the act of offering, the teacher also concerned the propositional content condition in which she proposed a future act for the students. The preparatory conditions were also employed in which she was uncertain if the students wanted the soft file of the listening. Thus, the teacher made an offer by asking them. When the teacher found out that the students wanted the soft file, she was obliged to take the action. In this case, she had a responsibility to give the soft file of the listening to her students. Another example of offering is illustrated below: The teacher produced the act of offering by using declarative mood. The use of future tense which was typified by the modal “will” also shows that she intended to commit herself to future action. This is in line with the notion of commissive that is to commit the speaker to some future action. The T: And then after that, you translate into English. If you need the help, I will help you. If you need my help, I will help you. After that in the form of script you have finished and then you rewrite on the paper that will be submitted to me. So, please don’t write directly on the paper that will be submitted to me. Can you understand what I mean? Ss: Yes. M-352804:12-04:39