“Let’s just say it’s a matter of leverage, eh?” “Mr. Cotton Answer, man”
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but he needed help of some crew. The purpose of the utterance was toask Gibbs politely to gather some crew for Jack.
22. “Let’s just say it’s a matter of leverage, eh?”
ANALYSIS: The utterance is classified into Directive illocutionary act because there is an intended meaning to be delivered by the speaker in the form of
suggestion. Jack and Gibbs are the participants involved in aconversation where Jack as the speaker and Gibbs as the hearer. When the utterance occurred, Jack told Gibbs
that he needed some crew to help him in retrieving his ship named Black Pearl but Gibbs doubted Jack’s plan because it was hard to take over the ship from Barbossa.
Jack told Gibbs that he had an idea to retrieve the ship and Gibbs was curious of his idea. The purpose of the utterance was toput forward consideration for Gibbs to think
that Jack’s plan was about to remind Barbossa about his past.
23. “Mr. Cotton … do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay
true in the face of danger and almost certain death?”
ANALYSIS: The utterance is classified into Directive illocutionary act because there is an intended meaning to be delivered by the speaker in the form of
invitation.Jack and Mr. Cotton are the participants involved in aconversation where Jack as the speaker and Mr. Cotton as the hearer. When the utterance occurred, Jack
was in a dock when recruiting some crew that would join him in sailing. Suddenly Jack encountered Mr. Cotton and he intended to ask some question to Mr. Cotton. The
purpose of the utterance was tomake a formal request to Mr. Cotton to join Jack on sailing.
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