Identifying the Speech Acts Used by the Characters Writing up the Report

29 characters were preparing some projects which are planned by Tony Stark. In the project, J.A.R.V.I.S was the conductor in making the suit of war Iron Man, while Tony Stark is a person who uses it. He could be called as an Iron Man. Tony Stark asked J.A.R.V.I.S to deliver some information about preparations, especially to import all preferences from home interface, connection, calibrating virtual environment and control surface. In this scene Tony Stark used the maxim of relevance, while J.A.R.V.I.S made some preparations for the suit. Tony Stark and J.A.R.V.I.S were scheduled to start the machine. J.A.R.V.I.S had tested the preparation to power down and to begin diagnostics. Before J.A.R.V.I.S wanted to start all of calculations needed, Tony Stark decided to know some information of the weather and ATC. He had to remember and also start to listen it as listed. It is to make sure that J.A.R.V.I.S knew all of them when they run the Iron man. Dialogue 1 Setting : Tony Stark’s House Situation : Tony Stark and J.A.R.V.I.S are testing Iron Man. Participants : Tony Stark and J.A.R.V.I.S Tony Stark : Do a check on control surfaces. J.A.R.V.I.S : As you wish. Preparation Test complete. Preparing to power down and begin diagnostics. Tony Stark : Yeah. Tell you what. Do a weather and ATC check. Start listening in on ground control. J.A.R.V.I.S : Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations needed before an actual flight is... Tony Stark : J.A.R.V.I.S Sometimes you got to run before you can walk. 30 Utterance based on maxim of relevance was flouted by Tony Stark when J.A.R.V.I.S tried to give the information about terabytes of the calculations which was needed before an actual flight. Tony Stark actually knew that they have to wait for a moment, especially for the calculation needed. However, he was not tolerant to run the suit of war. Tony Stark had a limited time to finish the project, especially to show up in front of many people. He tried to help people and just gave the simple statement. Tony Stark uttered, “J.A.R.V.I.S Sometimes you got to run before you can walk”. It showed how J.A.R.V.I.S’ utterances were irrelevantly answered by Tony Stark. The answer implied that he did not have much time for waiting for the terabytes of calculations, what he wanted is to run the suit and fix an error after the flight. Tony Stark did not only flout the maxim of relevance in the house, but also manage to use it more in the conference where the ceremony of Apogee Award. Lt. Colonel Rhodey was presenting the award to Tony Stark. However, he felt that Tony Stark did not follow the ceremony. Colonel felt was confused because Tony Stark did not care much about the award. On the other hand, Obadiah tried to replace Tony Stark’s position as his partner of a job especially in Stark Industry. Lt. Colonel Rhodey was impatient to wait for him because he had to delegate the award. Finally, Colonel found Tony Stark in a bar, playing gambling. He was exasperated by Tony Stark and he just answered all of the statements with irrelevant responses until the conference finished. When Tony Stark wanted to go home, he was interviewed by Christine as a journalist. He also flouted many maxim of relevance to answer all of the questions. 31 The conversation of Tony Stark, Colonel and Christine is presented in the dialogue 2: Dialogue 2 Setting : conference Situation : Tony Stark followed the conference. Participants : Tony Stark, Colonel and Christine E. Colonel : If I presented you with an award, youd be deeply honored. Tony Stark : Of course Id be deeply honored. And its you, thats great. So when do we do it? Colonel : Its right here. Here you go. Tony Stark : There it is. That was easy. Im so sorry. Colonel : Yeah, its okay. Tony Stark : Wow Would you look at that? Thats something else. I dont have any of those floating around. Were gonna let it ride Out of conference Christine E. : Youve been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that? Tony Stark : Absolutely ridiculous. I dont paint. Christine E. : And what do you say to your other nickname? The Merchant of Death? Tony Stark : Thats not bad. The utterances based on maxim of relevance were also shown within Tony Stark’s utterances. He carried out innocent face acts toward Colonel in his utterances by using harsh expressions in high tone and flouted, “Wow Would you look at that? Thats something else, I dont have any of those floating around, were gonna let it ride” These expressions showed the innocent face as if great changeover all of attentions from Colonel because he was angry before. The utterances implied that Tony Stark wanted to invite Colonel for playing the gambling. He forgot about the award which was not attended by Tony Stark. The same thing occurred when he uttered, “Absolutely ridiculous. I don’t paint”. It