e. Statements of speaker’s needsdemands
This strategy is used by the main characters to show the demand of a requester. It is applied four times by the main characters. This strategy is about the
needdemand expressed by the requester to show hisher request. It is mostly similar with imperative because this request can be an order to the requestee. The
request forces the requestee to perform it. The example
of statements of speaker‘s needsdemands is in the office which involves Jules and Becky. The conversation is about the movement of
Ben‘s desk. In the morning, Jules moves Ben‘s desk to assist Becky doing her tasks. Ben arranges the desk and organizes it. After Ben leaves, Becky organizes
some papers on her desk. Suddenly, Jules comes to Becky‘s desk. The conversation is presented below.
Jules : Hi. This is good, right? I like this arrangement. Becky, I want you to let Ben give you a hand, okay? And cc him on all my e-
mails.
Becky nods Did we get yesterday‘s numbers?
Becky : Yes. We did. I saw them here. Datum 18
In the conversation of Datum 19, Jules says Becky, I want you to let Ben give you a hand, okay? And cc him on all my e-mails
. This utterance is included into the statement of speaker needsdemands which is shown by the
clause I want you. Jules has a power to manage the request to ask Becky doing something. By adding the marker okay? at the end
of Jules‘s utterance, Jules ensures that Becky is really understand what she wants. It also forces Becky to
perform Jules‘s desire. The intention behind Jules‘s utterance is that Becky should help Ben and attach the e
mail address of Ben into Jules‘ email. Another example occurs when Jules has an accident which is sending a
wrong email. She calls her coworkers to listen to her problem in order to repair it. In the meeting room, she talks to all of her coworkers. She demands all of them to
think about how to repair it. However, some of them say that it is too hard to repair the problem. The dialogue is expressed below.
Jules : I know the Zoom‘s broken and I don‘t mean to take anyone off of
that but... I need a favor. I, accidentally sent an e-mail to the
wrong person and she‘s at work right now and I know she doesn‘t check her personal e-mail until she gets home at 5:30, so I have
until then to figure out how to delete it because if this person sees this email, it‘ll be...horrible and on top of that, she has a slight
heart condition and I think this could possibly be not good for that, so, I‘m relying on your good graces and brilliance to figure
out how to save my ass. Datum 24
From the conversation in datum 24, it can be seen that Jules says I need a favor
to demand her coworkers for doing something to repair her problem. In
order to get response from them, she uses the phrase I need to emphasize the request. By saying I need, it indicates the strategy of the statements of
needsdemands is used by Jules to request her coworkers. The intention of Jules‘
utterance is that she extremely needs one of her coworkers to repair the email.
f. Statements of obligationnecessities
Kategori