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for different situations. Some of potential motivations driven the speakers to select different strategies to make requests are to persuade, to warn, and to order someone
to do or not to do the speakers’ demands. To persuade meant to convince someone to do something needed by the
speakers. Some situated contexts in DCTs satisfied this motivation factor as seen in situation five and nine. The examples of the request strategies for persuading
motivations are given below.
360 Excuse me, sir. If I could ask, I need a reposition about my job. I think I did the maximum thing in coping with this position, but I
couldn’t manage it well. DM 130 361 Hi, John. Your work is very satisfied me. This is your chance to
prove that you are more than good in managing marketing. Let’s join my team
. DM 250 Convincing the hearer to take the request inspired the speaker to employ most
resounding fashion. Through the using of the conditional sentence “If I could ask”, the expression in 360 created a more soften way in asking about the reposition of
the speake r’s job. It is often that both Medical and Law students stressed the
supportive grounder as “I think I did the maximum thing in coping with this position, but I couldn’t manage it well” to put their justifications, in which also
acted as disarmer to any probable refusal. In addition, humbling hisherself to not be able to manage the responsibility well would be promising way to gain the
hearer’s sympathy. Trying to get in touch with the hearer’s feeling, the request had great possibility to be succeeded.
Consistently, example 360 was claimed to be the same as the 361 which passed out to persuade motivation. Persuading the hearer to accept and do the
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which regarded as very helpful supportive moves. Compliments were functioned as sweeteners to rise the excitements of the hearer toward the demand implored. The
using of more than one compliments in a request were still observed as acceptable, such as “Your work is very satisfied me” and “This is your chance to prove that you
are more than good in managing marketing” to be ended by main head acts of persuasi
on like “Let’s join my team”. Taking a close reading to this example, the researcher found that this external strategy of request had high probability to be
complied by the hearer. Unlike to persuade motivation, to warn dealt with the matter of telling
someone about possible danger or trouble might resulted and in some point asking someone to do or not to do something in order to avoid the trouble. This motivation
opted by the Medical and Law students mostly for the situation six settled in DCTs.
362 Sorry, sir. Do you know this room is a nonsmoking area? If you lights the cigarette, the alarm will be ringing
. DM 172
363 Sorry sir, can you kill your cigarette? You are not allowed to smoke here
DM 177
364 Excuse me, can you turn your cigarette out? It is forbidden to smoke indoors and it really disturb others
. DL 180 Employing warn statements in making request strictly increased the
impositive force of the speech acts used. Out of the external modifications stated by Rue and Zhang, the researcher discovered another opted strategy of supportive
warn. For some reason, as for asking someone not to do something, supportive moralizing and reprimanding were fairly representative. Yet, on the other hand,
giving warnings also useful moreover when the situations potentially caused some trouble as three examples above. The responses implored the hearer to stop
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conveyed the probable danger happened as of the smoke. Henceforth, using warn statements as seen in “If you lights the cigarette, the alarm will be ringing”, “You
are not allowed to smoke here”, and “It is forbidden to smoke indoors and it really disturb others” were taken as another beneficial request strategy particularly asking
someone not to smoke in a no-smoking area.
The last motivation which drove the speaker to employ certain request strategy is to order motivation. This motivation conveyed through directing
someone to do the plea or instruction. In giving order, the issue of the power, distance, and rank of imposition were always attached. In other words, people
whom owned less power and position had no authority to give the order. The order motivation was mostly revealed in situation three of this study.
365 Excuse me, man. Can you go to the cafeteria to get me a drink?
Thank you. Sorry if I am bothering you. DM 090
366 Hey, come here a minute I ask you to bring me water because I feel very thirsty
. DM 070
367 I want to have some drink. Can you make me a glass of tea? My
mouth is so dry. DL 079 When the gap of power as well as degree of impostion were existed, it was
always acceptable to give command or order to the hearer who had less power. Moreover, everything implored or requested by the boss, the hearer as the employee
had no ability to deny, but accepted the requests. Examples above noted that the speakers ordered the hearers in a high impositive force. Thus, the statements of
“Can you go to the cafeteria to get me a drink?”, “I ask you to bring me water because I feel very thirsty”, and “I want to have some drink. Can you make me a
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in other way. Yet, the sociological variables accepted these selection of linguistic units to be employed for settled situation contexts.
Finally, the researcher summarizes that these seven factors underlied the opting of different requests strategies and modifications are interrelated one
another. Therefore, in making appropriate requests, the speakers have to pay great attention not only to the notion of power, distance, and rank of imposition, yet
further, there are six other relevant factors not to be overlooked such as situation settings, pragmatic competence, request size, reciprocal asymmetry, urgency, as
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