Analyzing Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

Yousefi, Moslem; Mardian, Fatemeh

doi:10.1080/07268602.2019.1680090

“…According to Searle (1969) (Cruse, 2018), speech acts are divided into several types: assertive, directive, commissive, declarative, and expressive.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A directive is a kind of speech act that the speaker uses to get someone else or the hearer to do something, such as ordering, commanding, requesting, begging, recommending, asking, etc. (Cruse, 2018;de Pablos-Ortega, 2020;Griffith, 2006;Yule, 2019). Similarly, according to (Brown & Levinson, 2011;de Pablos-Ortega, 2020;Gu, 2014), a directive speech act is face-threatening behavior that forces the recipient to respond to the speaker's utterances and performs specific actions in a given context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Directive Speech Acts in Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

Widyastuti¹,

Sartika²

2023

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This research aims to explore Directive Speech Acts in the novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This research used a descriptive qualitative method by employing literary pragmatics analysis. The object of this research was the utterances of the main characters in the novel's dialogue. The data were collected by reading the text closely, observing the dialogue in the text, note taking and highlighting the directive speech acts, coding and classifying the types of directive speech acts, then analyzing and interpreting the types of directive speech acts based on the theory proposed by Searle. There are five types of Directive Speech Acts found in this novel: asking, commanding, requesting, prohibiting, and advising. The data finding has shown that the highest type of asking is 160 utterances or 48,94 %. It is shown by Jim (a slave nigger), who always asks Huck Finn about everything. The second is commanding, with 112 utterances or 34,25%. The next type is requesting, with 28 utterances or 8,56%. Prohibiting has 18 utterances or 5,50%, and advice has the lowest portion, nine utterances or 2,75 %. The novel's directive speech acts play different functions, including asking for information and confirmation, asking someone to or not to do something, and suggesting. It also shows that directive speech acts such as asking, commanding, prohibiting, requesting, and advising have been influenced by social relations between the interlocutor, including social distance and social power.

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“…the speaker wants the hearer to close the door. Thus, when someone utters something, they can perform actions through their utterances which consist of three main elements; the utterance (locutionary), the meaning that the speaker wants to convey (illocutionary act), and the response given by the hearer upon listening to the utterance (perlocutionary act) (Cruse, 2018). The speech act aims to achieve a desired result by the speaker to the speech partner, which aims to convey information, persuade, suggest, order, and so on.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A directive is a kind of speech act that the speaker uses to get someone else or the hearer to do something, such as ordering, commanding, requesting, begging, recommending, asking, etc. (Cruse, 2018;de Pablos-Ortega, 2020;Griffith, 2006;Yule, 2019). Similarly, according to (Brown & Levinson, 2011;de Pablos-Ortega, 2020;Gu, 2014), a directive speech act is face-threatening behavior that forces the recipient to respond to the speaker's utterances and performs specific actions in a given context.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Directive Speech Acts in Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

Widyastuti¹,

Sartika²

2023

JOPR

0

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This research aims to explore Directive Speech Acts in the novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This research used a descriptive qualitative method by employing literary pragmatics analysis. The object of this research was the utterances of the main characters in the novel's dialogue. The data were collected by reading the text closely, observing the dialogue in the text, note taking and highlighting the directive speech acts, coding and classifying the types of directive speech acts, then analyzing and interpreting the types of directive speech acts based on the theory proposed by Searle. There are five types of Directive Speech Acts found in this novel: asking, commanding, requesting, prohibiting, and advising. The data finding has shown that the highest type of asking is 160 utterances or 48,94 %. It is shown by Jim (a slave nigger), who always asks Huck Finn about everything. The second is commanding, with 112 utterances or 34,25%. The next type is requesting, with 28 utterances or 8,56%. Prohibiting has 18 utterances or 5,50%, and advice has the lowest portion, nine utterances or 2,75 %. The novel's directive speech acts play different functions, including asking for information and confirmation, asking someone to or not to do something, and suggesting. It also shows that directive speech acts such as asking, commanding, prohibiting, requesting, and advising have been influenced by social relations between the interlocutor, including social distance and social power.

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