TELL - US JOURNAL
Vol 7, No 1 (2021): March 2021

COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACT ON TIM COOK’S INTERVIEW IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Putri, Viola Rahmi (Unknown)
Merina, Yola (Unknown)
Alicia, Dona (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Jun 2021

Abstract

This research was conducted to know the kind of commissive and act the analysis of the three acts which are locution, illocution and perlocution could be found in the interview of Tim Cook in Oxford University. This research was a qualitative research. The source of data that used in this research was a video of an interview while the data which would be analyzed were utterances of the speakers in the interview. The research result was showed that there were two forms of commissive act that can be found in the interview which are promise and volunteering acts. From the result, it can be concluded that the use of promise act form was mostly act used during the interview of Tim Cook in Oxford University. This form was used by the interviewer when giving instruction during the interview or when asking question to Tim. Meanwhile the volunteering form was used when Tim volunteering himself to give an example to the audience of the interview.

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Journal Info

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tell-us

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

The purpose of TELL-US Journal is to promote the wide dissemination of the results of systematic scholarly inquiries into the broad field of English research. TELL-US Journal is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on English. The TELL-US Journal ...