INSPECTOR: So, has he confessed, yet? CONSTABLE SRINIVAS: INSPECTOR: CONSTABLE SRINIVAS: He’s a tough guy. CONSTABLE SRINIVAS: INSPECTOR: INSPECTOR: It’s hot and my wife is giving me hell, I’ve got a desk full of INSPECTOR: INSPECTOR: Aré wa, Srinivas, no

5. Expositives

Expositives are used in acts of exposition involving the expounding of views, the conducting of arguments, and the clarifying of usages and of references. They make plain how the utterances fit into the course of an argument or conversation, how people are using words, or, in general, are expository. Examples are ‘I reply’, ‘I argue’, ‘I concede’, ‘I illustrate’, ‘I assume’, ‘I postulate’. Utterances from Slumdog Millionaire which can be characterized as this type of illocutionary act are shown below:

1. PREM:

Are you ready? 2

2. PREM: Let’s play.

5

3. JAMAL:

Jamal Malik. 7

4. PREM:

So, Jamal. Tell me something about yourself. 11

5. JAMAL: I work in a call centre in Juhu.

12

6. PREM:

A Phone-basher And what type of call centre would that be? 13

7. JAMAL: XL 5 Mobile phones.

14

8. JAMAL:

No, actually, I’m an assistant. 16

9. JAMAL:

I get tea for people and- 18 10. INSPECTOR: So, has he confessed, yet? 21

11. CONSTABLE SRINIVAS:

Except his name, I could not get anything of the runt. 22

12. INSPECTOR:

You’ve been here whole bloody night, Srinivas. What have you been doing? 23

13. CONSTABLE SRINIVAS: He’s a tough guy.

24

14. CONSTABLE SRINIVAS:

Yes, sir. 26 Universitas Sumatera Utara

15. INSPECTOR:

So, were you wired up? A mobile or a pager? A coughing accomplice in the audience? Or, microchip under the skin, huh? 27

16. INSPECTOR: It’s hot and my wife is giving me hell, I’ve got a desk full of

murderers, rapists, extortionists, bum-bandit and you. So, why don’t you save us both a lot of time? And tell me how you cheated. 28

17. INSPECTOR:

He’s unconscious, chutiya. What good is that? How many times have I told you, Srinivas? 30

18. INSPECTOR: Aré wa, Srinivas, now we’ll have Amnesty International in

here next, peeing their pants about human rights. 32

19. CONSTABLE SRINIVAS: Sir, I was thinking-

33

20. CONSTABLE SRINIVAS: Sir, what do you think if he did know the

answers? 35

21. INSPECTOR: Professors, doctors, lawyers, general knowledge wallahs

never get beyond sixteen thousand rupees. He’s on ten million? What the hell can a slum dog possibly know? 36

22. JAMAL:

The answers. I knew the answers. 37

23. PREM: Not bad money to sit in a chair and answer a question. Better than