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No. Data
Types and Realizations Sociological
Factors Explanation
BR PP
NP OR
D P
R make an impact in the
world.
33. Oprah : First grade, skipped second
grade, hellerher.
The Renaissance began.
Amanda : Yeah. You’ve always had this conviction. You’ve always – it
seems like you’ve always known who you are, even if
you were – 8
√ Oprah tells about her childhood that she is out of the
kindergarten and continues to the first grade. She says that by using joke in the expression skipped second grade,
hellerher. The Renaissance began, it motivates Oprah and also the audiences enjoy the show, and then they laugh. The
social factor that influencing Oprah on performing her strategy is social distance.
34. Oprah : Well I knew I didn’t belong
there with those kids.
Amanda : You knew that. 2
√ Oprah tells when she was a child, she does not belong to the
kids when she was in kindergarten because she is different with those kids there. In the expression, she employs
negative politeness, by using hedges that is shown in Well I knew. Besides, like the previous datum, distance is a social
factor which motivates Oprah on doing the strategy.
35. Amanda : Is there anything left that
you’re scared to try?
Oprah : Whoa, Amanda. You must
have been up all night long.
5 √
Oprah’s expression is categorized as bald on record specifically task-oriented. She asks for Amanda to do the
task in which she must have been up all night long for something that makes her afraid of. The sociological factor
that influencing Oprah in that moment is rank of imposition It is because she asks for Amanda to wake up all night long.
36.
Amanda : I’ve prepared a little bit. Just a little.
Oprah : Oh. My Goodness. Anything left that I’m scared to try?
No. No, and I’m just trying to think what --- I’m just
1 √
Oprah uses positive politeness with notice and attend to hearer realization. It is proved in the statement Oh. My
Goodness. She employs that statements in order to catch the attention from the audiences, then they pay attention to her.
The context of the expression is on how Oprah explains that even though anything has gone, she is not scared to try