Speech Acts Analysis of dr. Peter Senge’s Interview in the Fowler Center’s Roberta Baskin about the Future of Education
- DOI
- 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.17How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- SFL; speech act; speech act analysis
- Abstract
This research is concerned with speech act produced by dr. Peter Senge as the speaker and Roberta Baskin as the host in a program of talk show. The objective of the study to analyze and describe the types of speech act, to classify the locution, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts, to analyze the most dominant speech act produced in the interview and to describe the reasons or purposes of the use of the speech acts. The study adopts qualitative and quantitative research. In analyzing the data, it uses speech act theory by Austin and Searle and transitivity analysis of SFL by M.A.K. Halliday specifically to identify the circumstance of reason and purposes. The results of this study shows that the types of speech acts used are directives, representatives, commissives, and representatives. The dominant utterance used is representative utterances 41%. It means that this interview represents a situation or condition which can be assumed as truth or falsity. Locution is also dominant in this interview by 75%. Then, the reason and purpose of Peter Senge’s that should be different from the past and it starts to learn in the concrete one.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Khilda Shopia AU - Dara Sabila AU - Siti Drivoka Sulistyaningrum PY - 2019/03 DA - 2019/03 TI - Speech Acts Analysis of dr. Peter Senge’s Interview in the Fowler Center’s Roberta Baskin about the Future of Education BT - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 81 EP - 85 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icollite-18.2019.17 DO - 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.17 ID - Shopia2019/03 ER -