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referential calling. Here, the speaker performs a perlocutionary act of association by performing an illocutionary act of calling the hearer by an in-group term, which
brings about a perlocutionary effects on the hearer such that the hearer feels relieved. The speaker employs an illocutionary act of calling besides employing a
representative specifically an illocutionary act of expressing the speaker’s feeling. LaFred calls Pauletta with a vocative “girl” which is included as in-group member. In
this dialogue, the vocative “girl” shows a good relationship between the speaker and the hearer. After succeeding in getting Pauletta’s attention, she tries to say what she
feels that she loves her very much for she has kindly helped her team. Being happy since Pauletta can fulfill The Clovers’ wish to go to nationals for the first time,
LaFred associates Pauletta for she directly says her love to her. This act, of course, makes Pauletta feel relieved. She must be very glad to be called “girl”. Furthermore,
she must be feeling that she is loved by the Clovers.
2. Dissociative Non-referential Calling
Similar to associative non-referential calling, dissociative non-referential calling is also used to catch the hearer’s attention. According to Kubo as stated in
Chapter II, whenever a speaker employs dissociative non-referential calling, he performs a perlocutionary act of dissociation by performing an illocutionary act of
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calling the hearer by an out-group term which brings about perlocutionary effects on the hearer such that his honor is disgraced.
There is only a datum containing dissociative non-referential calling found in the film entitled “Bring It On” namely Datum 6DNRCALL which contains the
vocative “fags”. The analysis of the data will be described below.
Datum 6DNRCALL
Footballer 1 : Hey, hey, hey. Whoa Footballer 2 : Sexy Leslie and Jan Jan the cheerleading man
Footballer 1 : Hi, fags Les
: Just because we won more trophies than you guys is no reason to get all malignant.
Context of Situation
The dialogue between Les and two RCH Footballers happens in the school field, outside school area one morning. Les and Jane are having conversation, while
suddenly their evil friends, footballer 1 and 2, are passing through in front of them. Jan and Les are male cheerleaders. The footballers mock them for they suppose that
male cheerleaders are not gentlemen. First, the footballer 1 calls Les and Jane “Sexy Lesli and Jan Jan the cheerleading man” with a mocking expression. The footballer 1
then also says hello to them and mocks them with the calling “fags”. Knowing that Les and Jan are mocked, Jan becomes rather angry. However, Les is able to make
him calm down. He tells to the footballers that they do not need to malignant for the cheerleaders get more achievements than the footballers.
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Data Interpretation The speaker in the dialogue above is the footballer 1, while the hearers are Jan
and Les, the male cheerleaders. While following the the footballer 2 who has just mocked Les and Jan, the footballer 1 performs an illocutionary act of mocking them
by uttering a locutionary act “Hi, fags.” This act hence brings about a perlocutionary act such that Jan and Les become furious. In uttering the statement, the speaker uses a
vocative “fags”. Here, the speaker hence employs dissociative non-referential calling. The speaker employs a perlocutionary act of dissociation by performing an
illocutionary act of calling the hearers with “fags”, which is included as out-group term. According to Oxford Dictionary, fag means “offensive word for a male
homosexual.” The vocative “fags” uttered by the footballer 1 hence shows a bad relationship between footballers and male cheerleaders. The footballer 1 dissociates
Les and Jan since he says offensive word to them when he and his friend are passing through in front of them.
It is obvious that the footballer 1 employs an illocutionary act of calling besides employing an illocutionary act of expressive; specifically mocking. The
footballer says hello to Jan and Les by calling “fags” to them with mocking tone and expression. The footballers suppose that the male cheerleaders must be homosexual.
Being mocked, Les asks Jan who starts to be rather angry to be patient and not angry since they realize that the footballers are only envious to them. This is because the
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cheerleader squad has got more achievement. In contrast, the footballers never win a single game.
3. Associative Non-referential Addressing
