N = The percentage of subcategories illocutionary act.
This study using several steps to analyze the data, they are: a. Firstly, identifying and classifying the data based on Searle’s theory.
b. Secondly, analyzing the illocutionary acts that must be made in order to reach the successfulness of the speech acts.
c. Thirdly, counting the result of illocutionary acts. d. Fourthly, finding the most dominant type of illocutionary acts.
e. The Last, generating the data to make the conclusion.
CHAPTER IV THE ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
IN THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
4.1 The Six Types of Expressive Illocutionary Acts
As mentioned in the previous chapter, Expressives are defined as part of illocutionary acts in which the state what the speaker feel. More deeply expressive
illocution describes and expresses psychological state of the speaker, it can be statement of pleasure, joy, sorrow, etc. The data of this thesis is consisting of
dialogues. Each dialogue will be analysed based on the speaker and condition, supported by Searle’s speech act theory to decide which expressive illocutionary act
the utterance will be. The whole dialogues will be collected by following how they are uttered originally in the show.Here below are the data of expressives
illocutionary acts I find in The Oprah Winfrey Show:
1 Expressives for Thank
Thanking is an expression of gratitude on the part of the speaker to the addressee whose past or future act benefits the speaker; or a grateful feeling of
kindness, favour, or the like expressed by words. Below the data of thanking expressives found in Oprah Winfrey Show 10032010:
No Utterances
1. Winfrey: Well thank you.
212
2. Rowling: Thank you.
275
3. Winfrey: Thank you so much.
276
2 Expressives for Apologize
Apologizing is an expression of regret. It can be defined as the speaker to defend, explain, clear away or make excuses for by reasoning. Some related terms of
apologizing are: alibi out of, plead guilty, lie out of, excuse, do penance, and so on. But there is no expressives for apologize found in Oprah Winfrey Show.
No Utterances
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3 Expressives for congratulation
Congratulation is expression of pleasure and best wishes on the occasion of another’s good fortune or success. Congratulating, applauding and condoling
kinds of expressives for congratulating. Those show the speaker’s sympathy toward what has been happening to the hearer’s luck, applauding expresses the feeling of
honor toward hearer’s ability or toward something good, while condoling express the feeling of compassion toward the hearer’s sadness. Below the data of
congratilationexpressives found in Oprah Winfrey Show 10032010:
No Utterances
1 Winfrey: … it was beautiful. Scotland is beautiful.
18
2 Rowling: It’s stunning. Yeah, it’s stunning.
19
3 Winfrey: And the greener is greener than anything I’ve ever seen other
Ireland.
20
4 Rowling: It was huge.
26
5 Rowling: Well, that’s a really good question …
34
