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No. Data
Types and Realizations Sociological
Factors Explanation
BR PP
NP OR
D P
R
we going to take some questions? According to that analysis, there is a social distance motivating Oprah on performing
her strategy.
41. Oprah : Everybody has a class at
1:15, right? Okay, I’ll get you out of here. They told
me hard out. One o’clock. Amanda : Yeah. But so we think we
have, do we have a first question from Twitter, coming
forward? 3
√ In the conversation, Oprah uses positive politeness, intensify
interest to hearer. She employs the question that is Everybody has a class at 1:15, right? She applies right, and
then she continues with the next statement, in order to make the contribution from Amanda to get involved in the
communication. In this context, Oprah asks when she finishes in the program, yet it is still airing because Amanda
has the next question to her. In addition, like in the previous datum, sociological factor that is distance exists on the
conversation between Oprah and Amanda.
42. Andre
: Matt, where’s the ring?
Oprah : Matt, do we need marriage? Oh my God, that’s going to
be such a pre-nup between us, I’ve got to say.
3 √
Oprah continues Andre’s question who is one of the audiences in the program. Andre states about a question
from Matt in Twitter that is aimed to Oprah. In the occasion, Oprah employs positive politeness with intensify interest to
hearer. It is proved that she uses the question Matt, do we need marriage? It indicates that Oprah needs the hearer to
focus on her statement by using the question. Then, distance is a factor influencing Oprah on performing her strategy.
43. Andre : And then we had Javier
Hernandez, who asked, Oprah, who has been your favorite
interviewee and why?
Oprah : Well, actually, I would have to say, there’s so many over
the years and the truth is tha the people whose names that
I can’t even remember and 3
√ Oprah states the statement that categorized as negative
politeness specifically be pessimistic, for the reason that she is pessimistic when one of the audiences asks her about the
person who had inspired her the most in Oprah Winfrey Show, yet she does not remember. It can be said in the
expression
I can’t even remember and you probably wouldn’t remember, have been the most revelatory, the most
impactful. Based on the context, a factor that influencing the use of the strategy is distance because there is the relation
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No. Data
Types and Realizations Sociological
Factors Explanation
BR PP
NP OR
D P
R you probably wouldn’t
remember, have been the most revelatory, the most
impactful. between Oprah and the audiences.
44. Amanda : But you made him cry
Amanda.
Oprah : I didn’t make him cry. I didn’t make him cry,
Amanda. 8
√ In the occasion, Oprah applies off record that is be ironic
realization. In her words I didn’t make him cry, she states something contradictive to that happened in the program, yet
in the moment, one of the audiences is crying and it implies on how ironic statement occurs in the strategy. Based on the
explanation, there is a sociological factor that involves Oprah on performing the statement that is social distance.
45. Amanda : But he cried but it was happy
tears.
Oprah : Yeah, I would have to say. I don’t actually try to make
people cry and if I think, literally, we cut a lot of it
because he went into the ugly cry. He went into ugly
cry. 2
√ Oprah employs negative politeness on hedge realization. It
is proved in the statements actually, I think, literally, and these are categorized as hedge. In addition, social distance is
a factor that motivates Oprah in doing the strategy.
46.
Amanda : You could tell it was real. Oprah
: Yeah, it was very real and so we said, we got to save
the brother. 5
√ Oprah repeats Amanda’s statement that is it was real. What
she says in the occasion is considered as positive politeness, seek agreement focused on repetition. The function of using
the repetition is the speaker needs to stress or emphasize so the hearer will agree with her statement. According to the
explanation, the sociological factor that exists in the program is social distance since there is the distance
between Oprah Winfrey as the speaker and Amanda as the host in the show.
