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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
This chapter consists of three parts, namely conclusions, recommendations, and recommendations. Conclusions summarize the result or finding of the
research. The suggestions for the future research related to the topic or the language learners who want to make use of this research are presented in the
recommendations.
A. Conclusions
After conducting the analysis on the data, the research comes to the conclusions. There are two main conclusions in this research based on the
research question. The first question is about which speech acts are performed by the performers in the conversation. The second one is about how the questions
could conform to each other in the context. Its finding clarifies that even though a question identified as possessing questioning act, the questions in the conversation
can perform any speech act from Searle‟s typology. The conversation was not an
ill-sequence conversation. Since the questions perform various acts, the sequence was not all questions as many people assumed.
Based on the first finding, the questions were able to perform another act apart from performing act of questioning. In the given context of conversation, as
suggested by the findings, the question could perform all of the five speech acts categories proposed by Searle. To perform another directives was quite easier,
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since questioning is also part of directives. There were 117out of 137 utterances found in directives category which actually perform act of questioning. For the
other category, namely representatives, commisives, declaratives, and expressives, the number of appearance in sequence were 73, 24, 1, and 13 utterances. From
other categories, questions could perform act namely describing, asserting, accepting, offering, refusing, appointing, and some other act. This finding
clarified that a certain act could be identified by its utterance form. It also implies that one act can be performed through a varied linguistic proposal. The act is
relied on the felicity condition to be able to successfully perform the act. The second conclusion deals with the claim that the conversations were
considered as ill-sequences. The claim was slightly mislead as the term answer was more than just a statement. The findings clarified that the adjacency pair was
fulfilled in the conversation. Though there were also found some question- question pair, it was functioned as an insertion. The researcher found out that the
pair namely offer- accept, invite-refuse, request-accept, etc. and also some other pairs. Therefore, in the level of utterances speech act, this research found that the
conversations were not ill.
B. Recommendations
This research was a pragmatics research focusing on indirect speech acts. The researcher was trying to identify the aspects of conversation that were often
irregular due to the definition of the conversation itself. However, indirect speech
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