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Contrary to offering, command speech function is the one which is used to demand goods and services. The speaker of this speech function needs others to
get goods and services for her. Command also shows someone’s status and power. Someone produces more command in his utterances is considered as instructive
and hence posses higher status and power than the addressee. In the data studied, the teacher as the manager of the class produced the
significant number of commands. She made 27 commands; whereas the students only produced 3 commands. 3 students made 3 commands, two students did not
make it. All commands produced by the teacher were addressed to the students, while the students’ commands were pointed to their friend. It reveals, once again,
that teacher has higher status and power than students. She can give command to the students, but the students cannot. Student’s commands were pointed to
students’ friends whose status and power were considered equal. The example of the command made by the student and the teacher are given below:
7 O: I: command 250
Bela i Ken-ken, say.
R: responding 251 Ken-ken
i nursery RHYME
developing:
elaborate
In the excerpt 7 above, Bela asked Ken-ken to repeat what he had just said. She demanded Ken-ken to say the words, and Ken-ken did what Bela asked
him to do. They are friends and they are considered to have equal status and power, therefore they can give and comply the command.
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4.2.1.1.4 Opening: Statement Speech Function Statement and offer are similar speech functions. Both are opening speech
functions whose functions are to give, but statement and offer give something different. Offer gives goods and services, statement gives information. The
information provided by the speaker producing statement speech function can be classified into attitudinal or evaluative information and factual information.
Therefore, statement speech function can be furtheres categorized into giving attitudinal or evaluative information and giving factual information.
In data studied, almost all the participants produced statement speech function. However, giving factual information happened more frequently than
giving opinion or attitudinal information. It can be understood since it is not in the capacity of the children to give opinion on others. Children at their age can not
judge subjectively yet. They give information based on what they know from the environments.
There were two students who did not produce statement giving attitudinal information. On the other hand, all students or children produced statement giving
factual information, even the number of the later statement was bigger than the former. The total number of the statement produced by the students was extremely
greater than those produced by the teacher. It reveals that the children gave more information than the teacher. The children conveyed their thought repeatedly. This
information can also be treated as the way teacher let the students get the floor. By giving less information, the teacher let children talk each other, give information
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each other. Teacher’s turn would come when the students were lack of information.
8 O: I: statement 177a Ken-ken i Miss Melani, I can make a big
fact mountain.
C: prolong:
