Analyzing the Act Sequence in the Conversation Writing down the Report
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Table 4.2Primary act of the performer’s utterances
No. Speech acts categories
Number of Appearances
Total Percentage
1. Declaratives:
1 0.40
Appointing
1
2. Representatives:
73 29.44
- Approve
2
- Asserting
9
- Claiming
1
- Concluding
1
- Guessing
6
- Confirming
14
- Correcting
1
- Deny
11
- Describing
4
- Insisting
3
- Acknowledge
4
- Reporting
5
- Stating
12
3.
Directives:
137 55.24
- Commands
2
- Beg
1 -
Inviting 2
- Questions
117
- Requests
7
- Suggestions
8
4. Commisives:
24 9.68
Accepting 5
Offers 9
Refusals
7
Invite
3
5.
Expressives:
13 5.24
- Greeting
3
- Statements of excitement
2
- Statements of shock
6 -
Statements of terrified 1
- Statements of dislike
1
1 Representatives
This first analysis is going to explain the Representatives category. Its special trait is word-to-world which, according to Huang 2006, represents the
speakers‟ way to see the world as they believe it being truth p. 1004. The
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psychological state of this category is expressing speaker‟s belief on something
through proposition uttered. Approving, asserting, clarifying, claiming, concluding, guessing, confirming, correcting, denying, describing, insisting,
predicting, reporting, and stating were some examples of acts in this category. Those act appeared 73 29.44 from total 252 utterances in the conversation.
The analysis below is the illustration of confirming act in the conversation. It appears 14 times.
EXCERPT Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Questions Only Season 8, Episode 11 [01:31]
[Scene: This conversation setting is in an old hotel, which turns out to be Frankenstein castle, where Wayne and Kathy stumbled upon earlier. Ryan, the
receptionist, offers Wayne a bedroom in case he wants to have a stay for a bad weather outside. In this very occasion, Wayne is commenting about the bed type.
] Wayne
: Is that a King-sized bed? Ryan
: Is that your favorite type?
As the main theme of the game suggests, Wayne was stumbled across Frankenstein castle which was first assumed as a hotel. As offering Wayne to stay,
Ryan showed a room which he offered to Wayne. After Wayne saw the room, he then asked Ryan about the bed size whether it was a King-sized bed or not. Ryan
then responds by asking back saying “Is that your favorite type?” while smiling. The analysis on the conversation is elaborated in the paragraphs below.
First, after being displayed to the bed, Wayne asked about the bed size. Ryan responded to that proposal by asking about Wayne‟s favorite bed size.
Next,
Wayne assumed that Ryan was cooperating in the conversation. Therefore, his utterances should be intended to be relevant.
Third, the relevant response to