ASSIGNMENT
3 DISCOURSE
PAGE
50-51
1. A suspected
appears in court and reacts to a question posed by the judge in the following
way:
A: You’re john smith?
B: I’ve been asked that three times already during the
investigations. You should know by now.
Answers:
The discourse situation is in court. Illocution
because in court. It was utterance A as the judge to the B as the accused, A
said the question are the same until three time so the intension of repetition
asking to the B is complaining or irritating the judge to the B in order to he
speak the fact. Per locution is B answer that he had been asking for three
times, and he informs that A should know his name.
Objectives is institutional discourse (signal-
persuasion-argumentative discourse)
2. Explain why “language” and “marriage” can also been
as institution.
Answers:
Because marriage had the rule by religion institution,
so not all person can said marry and they can become husband and wife. But the
person can said marry and become legally couple is the mosque official (NAIB).
And (NAIB) has the institutional power. Institutions regulate individual
through their systems of rules.
5. Utterance 2 subway passenger in term of ‘objectives’
and ‘effect’. Provide arguments for qualifying the dialogue as “phatic
communion”
A: End of the month which means its pay, pay, pay.
B: Yeah that’s for sure.
A: You just seem to keep on paying. It never stops.
B: isn’t that the truth?
A: it’s always pay, pay, and pay.
B: yeah, it never stops.
Answers:
Discourse is objective and effect of specific
situation. The situation happens in the train. The objectives are two subways
passenger. The conversation above is an institutional discourse because when he
traveling use train one of the rules of the train institution is paying trip.
There are main objectives of discourse is “symptom – expression- narrative
discourse”.
8. Analyze the “miscommunication” in the following dialogue using the concept
“objectives, effect, situation”
a. (conductor speaking to a passenger in the no
smoking section of a train)
Sir, there is no smoking here.
b. (passenger holding up a lit cigarette)
Then what does it look like I’m doing?
Anwers:
Discourse situation is in train.
A as the conductor and B as passenger, because the rule
cannot smoke in the train. Conductor to passenger uttered it so the intension
is warning to passenger in order to do not smoke in the train. The pre locution
is the passenger rejects the conductor warning.
Object and effect, is conductor give information to
passenger, and the effect is argumentative discourse the passenger is reject
the conductor information.
