Drama Dialogue Theoretical Framework 1.

about the meaning of the speaker’s utterance.

6. Drama

Drama is a performance of play and dialogue. At first drama were originated in the Greek verb dran means to do; to act or to accomplish. 28 The performance shows the player, as the actress, do some actions in scenes where the situational in text reflected. There are about seven types of drama, such as: tragedy, comedy, problem playa, farce, comedy of manners, fantasy and melodrama. Drama is about embedding the internal communication system in the external system. It creates the play of some characters and provides the correlation between the fictional world of the player performances and the audiences spectators. Here, the author usually must be able to raise the emotion events through the utterances spoken by the players.

7. Dialogue

Dialogue is one of the results from the dramatic text. In drama, it is the fundamental mode of presentation. This is because of the reduction of the dramatic text into the speech and the characters with the action will create a story’s scenes. When the players act while the making of the utterances such as an act forming a promise or a threat, then they do not only make dialogue as the formal element but as the spoken language. The receivers need to emphasize about an act through utterances. It is because the dialogue in drama put some of performances aspects. J.L Austin argued; as it recited by Manfred that there is something which is act the moment of uttering being done by the person uttering. 29 In drama, there are more to explore from the utterance in the dialogue because of the receiver sometimes does not consider about the situation where the dialogue where spoken by the players. Dialogues will relate with the speech act in speech situation where it was being uttered. And the making the dramatic speech is bound to the particular situation. The particular situation that is not all the spectators can 28 Wessels, Charlyn. Drama New York: Oxford University. 1988, p. 1 29 Pfister, Manfred, The theory and analysis of drama Cambridge: The University of Cambridge, 1991, p.6 12 catch from the plot or the characters. The text will bound into some particular situation that will create particular speech situation like the lack of information making the player to disobey the cooperative principle.

D. Research Finding