CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS
IN JANE AUSTEN’S MANSFIELD PARK
4.1 The Six Types of Expressives Illocutionary Acts
As mentioned in the previous chapter, expressives illocutionary acts can be divided into six categories, they are expressives for thank, expressive for
apologies, expressives for congratulation, expressives for greetings, expressives for wishes, expressives for attitudes Risana, 2005:27. Here below are the data of
expressives illocutionary acts I find in Mansfield Park : 1
Expressives for Thank Thanking is classified as an expressive illocutionary act that can be
defined as an expression of gratitude on the part of the speaker to the addressee.
No Utterances
1 “no, no—no at all – no, thank you.” Chapter 2 Page 33 2 “I should be most thankful to any Mr. Repton.” Chapter 6 Page 66
3 “Thank you, but I am not at all tired.” Chapter 9 Page 95 4 “Thank you my dear Fanny.” Chapter 10 Page 99
5 “Thank you for your good word, Fanny.” Chapter 11 Page 106 6 “Thank you, I am quite warm, very warm.” Chapter 18 Page 151
7 “Thank you.” Chapter 22 Page 183 8 “Thank you, I am so glad.” Chapter 23 Page 188
9 “Oh I thank you.” Chapter 31 Page 256
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10 “Thank you for your patience.” Chapter 47 Page 372
2 Expressives for Apologies
Apologizing is an expression of regretsome related terms of apologizing : alibi out of, apologize for, ask forgiveness, beg pardon, express
regret, plead guilty, do penance and so on.
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1 “I shall be very sorry to go away” Chapter 3 Page 41 2 “I beg your pardon.” Chapter 5 Page 58
3 “I am very sorry.” Chapter 10 Page 101 4 “I am sorry for it.” Chapter 15 Page 130
5 “I shall be sorry to an inconvenience.” Chapter 15 Page 133 6 “I should be sorry to make the character ridiculous by bad acting,”
Chapter 15 Page 133 7 “I am sorry for Miss Crawford.” Chapter 16 Page 140
8 “I am more sorry to see you drawn in to do what you had resolved against.” Chapter 16 Page 140
9 “My dear Miss Price, I beg your pardon.” Chapter 18 Page 150 10 “I am sorry you are going--” Chapter 20 Page 168
11 “I am sorry for them all.” Chapter 21 Page 173 12 “I should be sorry to have my powers of planning.” Chapter 25 Page
207
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13 “I am sorry to say that I am unable to answer your question.” Chapter 25 Page 112
14 “I beg your pardon for being here.” Chapter 27 Page 220 15 “I am very sorry that anything has occurred to distress you” Chapter 27
Page 226 16 “I beg your pardon but I am wildered.” Chapter 31 Page 250
17 “I am very sorry.” Chapter 32 Page 263 18 “I am very sorry indeed.” Chapter 32 Page 263
19 “Sorry” Chapter 32 Page 263 20 “I was sorry that Mrs. Rushworth should resent any former supposed
slight to Miss Bertram” Chapter 44 Page 343 21 “I am sorry to find how many weeks more she is likely to be without
you. ” Chapter 44 Page 344
3 Expressives for Congratulation
Congratulating, applauding and condoling are the kinds of expressives for congratulation. Those show the speaker’s sympathy toward what
has been happening to the hearer. Congratulating expresses the feeling of pleasure toward the hearer’s luck, applauding expresses the feeling of honor
toward hearer’s ability, while condoling expresses the feeling of compassion toward the hearer’s sadness.
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1 “You are very good.” Chapter 3 Page 45
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2 “Well done, sister” Chapter 5 Page 58 3 “Though I have no younger sister, I feel for her.” Chapter 5 Page 62
4 “What a pity” Chapter 6 Page 65 5 “Poor thing” Chapter 7 Page 78
6 “Poor dear Fanny.” Chapter 10 Page 97 7 “It is a pity he should have so much trouble for nothing.” Chapter 10
Page 100 8 “It is a pity you should not join them.” Chapter 9 Page 101
9 “Poor William.” Chapter 11 Page 107 10 “What a pity.” Chapter 11 Page 109
11 “I must really congratulate your ladyship.” Chapter 15 Page 132 12 “Very well, very well.” Chapter 22 Page 185
13 “Poor Rushworth and his two-and-forty speeches.” Chapter 23 Page 192
14 “Poor fellow.” Chapter 23 Page 192 15 “Very much indeed. You are a lucky fellow.” Chapter 25 Page 205
16 “Poor Fanny Not allowed to cheat herself as she wishes.” Chapter 25 Page 207
17 “Poor Fanny.” Chapter 28 Page 234 18 “Good gentle, Fanny” Chapter 35 Page 294
19 “Excellent creature” Chapter 35 Page 296 20 “Poor dears” Chapter 38 Page 309
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21 “Poor little soul” Chapter 38 Page 315 22 “Poor little dear” Chapter 38 Page315
4 Expressives for Greetings
Greeting is an expression of welcoming. It is also the act of greeting by the speaker to the hearer.
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1 “Come with me into the breakfast room.” Chapter 2 Page 35 2 “It is a pleasure to see a lady with such a good heart for riding.”
Chapter 7 Page 75 3 “I was glad to see you so well entertained.” Chapter 10 Page 98
4 “Heyday Where are the others?” Chapter 10 Page 100 5 “Come in.” Chapter 16 Page 139
6 “Come, Fanny.” Chapter 18 Page 149 7 “Heyday” Chapter 23 Page 190
8 “Come, Fanny, Fanny.” Chapter 25 Page 212 9 “Oh My dear William, how glad I am to see you.” Chapter 38 Page
308 10 “Ha Welcome back, my boy, glad to see you.” Chapter 38 Page 310
5 Expressives for Wishes
Wishing is the expression of speaker’s desire and wants in order to expect it becomes reality.
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1 “I only wish I could be more useful …” Chapter 1 Page 30 2 “I hope she will prove a well-disposed girl,” Chapter 1 Page 30
3 “I hope there can be nothing to fear for them,” Chapter 1 Page 30 4 “I hope she will not tease my poor pug.” Chapter 1 Page 30
5 “I should wish to see them very good friends,” Chapter 1 Page 31 6 “I wish there may not be a little sulkiness of temper, ” Chapter 2 Page
33 7 “I hope I am not ungrateful, aunt.” Chapter 3 Page 41
8 “I hope not.” Chapter 3 Page 41 9 “I hope it does not distress you very much.” Chapter 3 Page 42
10 “I shall hope to have a friend in my little cottage” Chapter 3 Page 45 11 “I hope, sister, things are not so very bad with you neither – considering
Sir Thomas says you will have six hundred a year.” Chapter 3 Page 45 12 “I hope you may be able to convince him that the many years that have
been passed since you parted have not been spent on your side entirely without improvement.” Chapter 3 Page 48
13 “I wish my friends in general would be so, too.” Chapter 5 Page 58 14 “I wish you could see Compton.” Chapter 6 Page 63
15 “I hope I shall have some good friends to help me.” Chapter 6 Page 63 16 “I wish we could contrive it.” Chapter 6 Page 65
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17 “I wish you may not be fatigued by so much exercise.” Chapter 7 Page 75
18 “I wish you had saved your self this walk home.” Chapter 7 Page 75 19 “I sincerely hope you will have a pleasant ride.” Chapter 7 Page 75
20 “Lord bless me” Chapter 7 Page 75 21 “I wish Fanny had half your strength, ma’am.” Chapter 7 Page 79
22 “I wish you had my seat.” Chapter 8 Page 85 23 “I hope, as well as the never.” Chapter 9 Page 93
24 “I wish I could convince Miss Crawford too.” Chapter 9 Page 94 25 “I hope you are not very tired.” Chapter 9 Page 95
26 “I hope I am not to lose my companion.” Chapter 10 Page 103 27 “I hope I should not have influenced myself in a wrong way.” Chapter
11 Page 106 28 “I wish you a better fate Miss Price.” Chapter 11 Page 108
29 “I wish I could see Cassiopeia.” Chapter 11 Page 109 30 “I wish my good aunt would be a little less busy.” Chapter 12 Page
114 31 “I must hope it will be in a very small and quite way.” Chapter 13 Page
120 32 “I hope you will give it up” Chapter 15 Page 129
33 “I hope we shall always think.” Chapter 20 Page 166 34 “I only wish you talk to him more.” Chapter 21 Page 172
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35 “I wish they met more frequently.” Chapter 21 Page 172 36 “I hope she does not suppose there is any dislike on his side.” Chapter
21 Page 172 37 “I hope my uncle may continue to like Mr. Rushworth.” Chapter 21
Page 172 38 “I hope you are aware that there is no real occasion for your going into
company in this sort of way.” Chapter 23 Page 188 39 “I hope will have a very agreeable day.” Chapter 23 Page 189
40 “I hope it is not too fine.” Chapter 23 Page 190 41 “I hope you do not think of me too fine” Chapter 23 Page 190
42 “I hope your ladyship is pleased with the game.” Chapter 25 Page 204 43 “I hope dear Mr. and Mrs. Rushworth will be at home.” Chapter 25
Page 208 44 “I hope you will like the chain self.” Chapter 27 Page 220
45 “I hope, I am sure she is not serious.” Chapter 27 Page 226 46 “I hope we shall keep it up these two hours.” Chapter 28 Page 234
47 “I wish they would stay at home.” Chapter 29 Page 238 48 “I wish he was not going away.” Chapter 25 Page 204
49 “I wish the discovery may do them any good.” Chapter 30 Page 247 50 “I wish they may be heartily.” Chapter 30 Page 247
51 “I hope you will excuse my begging you take no further notice.” Chapter 31 Page 255
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52 “I hope you are sorry.” Chapter 32 Page 263 53 “I wish Sir Thomas had been here.” Chapter 34 Page 278
54 “I wish he had not been obliged to tell you what he was trying for” Chapter 35 Page 285
55 “I wish he had known you as well as I do, Fanny.” Chapter 35 Page 285
56 “I wish you could have seen her countenance. ” Chapter 35 Page 289 57 “I wish could have overheard her tribute of praise.” Chapter 35 Page
289 58 “I wish I had settled with Mrs. Frases --..” Chapter 36 Page 294
59 “I wish Margaret were married.” Chapter 36 Page 295 60 “I wish we could see him..” Chapter 36 Page 297
61 “I wish we could get the bell mended.” Chapter 38 Page 309 62 “I wish you would not be so quarrel some.” Chapter 38 Page 315
63 “I hope I foresee two objections.” Chapter 41 Page 330 64 “And I hope you will not be cruelly.” Chapter 42 Page 334
65 “I wish you were not so tired.” Chapter 42 Page 335 66 “I wish I left you in stronger health.” Chapter 42 Page 335
67 “I hope I should know how to bear it,” Chapter 44 Page 343 68 “I hope they got an pretty well together.” Chapter 44 Page 343
69 “… I hope it is not true.” Chapter 46 Page 357 70 “May God support you under your share” Chapter 46 Page 359
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6 Expressives for Attitudes
Expressives for attitudes contain criticizing, complaining, and deprecating that express the feeling of disagree or dislike with the hearer’s
attitude. Those expect the hearer to mull over the speaker’s utterance.
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1 “This is not a very promising beginning.” Chapter 2 Page 33 2 “It is very bad, but you must not expect everybody to be as forward and
quick at learning as yourself.” Chapter 2 Page 36 3 “…that is very stupid indeed,…” Chapter 2 Page 37
4 “It is not at all necessary that she should be as accomplished as you are.” Chapter 2 Page 37
5 “I cannot see the things as you do.” Chapter 3 Page 42 6 “Oh, do not say so.” Chapter 3 Page 43
7 “Me Never” Chapter 3 Page 44 8 “No, I am sure you are too good.” Chapter 4 Page 55
9 “Talking does no good.” Chapter 5 Page 57 10 “You are as bad as your brother.” Chapter 5 Page 58
11 “Yes, I can not agree with you there.” Chapter 5 Page 61 12 “That is worse than anything – quite disgusting” Chapter 5 Page 61
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13 “That was bad indeed.” Chapter 5 Page 62 14 “Oh, for shame” Chapter 6 Page 63
15 “No, you never can.” Chapter 6 Page 65 16 “Oh no, nothing of that kind could hired in this village.” Chapter 6
Page 66 17 “What strange creatures brothers are” Chapter 6 Page 67
18 “It was very wrong : very indecorous.” Chapter 7 Page 71 19 “That is a very foolish trick, Fanny.” Chapter 7 Page 77
20 “Why can not you come and sit here and employ yourself as we do?” Chapter 7 Page 77
21 “Oh no I can not do without Fanny.” Chapter 8 Page 81 22 “That would be not a very handsome reason for using Crawford’s”
Chapter 8 Page 82 23 “Unpleasant” Chapter 8 Page 82
24 “It seems very odd.” Chapter 8 Page 83 25 “It must have the strangest appearance” Chapter 8 Page 83
26 “But why are you to be a clergyman?” Chapter 9 Page 93 27 “Oh, do not attach me with your watch.” Chapter 9 Page 95
28 “Why would not you speak sooner?” Chapter 9 Page 96 29 “You had better stayed with us.” Chapter 9 Page 97
30 “Prohibited Nonsense” Chapter 9 Page 99 31 “I can not agree with you.” Chapter 13 Page 119
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32 “You take up a thing so seriously” Chapter 13 Page 119 33 “Oh no, that will never do” Chapter 14 Page 123
34 “No, no, Julia must not be Amelia.” Chapter 14 Page 126 35 “You can not have an idea.” Chapter 15 Page 134
36 “Phoo Phoo Do not be shamefaced.” Chapter 15 Page 134 37 “It is all very bad” Chapter 16 age 140
38 “Both No, no, that must not be.” Chapter 17 Page 145 39 “You had better stay till the curtain is hung.” Chapter 18 Page 150
40 “Why should you dare say that?” Chapter 21 Page 171 41 “So strange” Chapter 23 Page 187
42 “Phoo Phoo This is only because there were no tall women to compare her with.” Chapter 24 Page 196
43 “Foolish fellow.” Chapter 24 Page 196 44 “Fanny Price Nonsense No, no. Chapter 24 Page 195
45 “A very odd game.” Chapter 25 Page 204 46 “No, no, you must not part with the queen.” Chapter 25 Page 207
47 “Oh Shame Shame” Chapter 25 Page 211 48 “No, it is not handsomer not at all handsomer in its way.” Chapter 27
Page 222 49 “You had better not.” Chapter 28 Page 242
50 “Oh no you cannot” Chapter 30 Page 244
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51 “It was bad, very bad in me against such a creature .” Chapter 30 Page 246
52 “But, alas It was not such a home.” Chapter 38 Page 312
4.2 Ways of Performing Expressives Illocutionary Acts
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