DISCOURSE ASSIGNMENT 3

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a. The objective of A’s utterance could be that A wants to confirm whether or not suspect’s name is John Smith. However B’s utterance doesn’t match with adjency pairs of A’s one. B counters the utterance with irritated expression   

b. Place: on the court, Scene: formal, Participants: A (john Smith; suspect) and B (The judge), Ends: the objectives are explained above, Act sequences: Suspect came to the court, Judge open the court, Judge ask suspect, Keys: Serious, Instrumentalities: Spoken standard language, Norms: Suspect must give respect to the court, Genres: Conversation

(2)

Language and Marriage, both of them involves the rules which is regulate individual behavior through a system of social and it’s also can be seen as mediators or means for individuals to form or get connected to society.

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The objective of A’s utterance actually wasn’t intended to give any information however A’s utterance more on performing good manners or politeness on. The B’s utterance is also neither intended to answer nor asking back to gain the information, but of course it was to give respond to the A’s utterance as one of good manners act too.

The effect of A’s utterance was A and B can get connected although in a short conversation.

Phatic Communion: The conversation of A and B is one kind of good manners conversation which is intended to perform a communion between the passengers. 

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The difference is De Beaugrande’s idea believe that context related to the environment around the text or the spoken data, however, Leech states that context is related with the interpretation of listener which is constructed from each background knowledge both speaker and listener.

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A’s utterance use declarative sentence to warn B not to smoke, while B counters it with question which the objective could be that he wanted to say that he didn’t smoke yet which express irritated feeling/expression..

The effect of A’s directive meaning makes B felt a bit irritated and cancel his intention to smoke.

Setting : In the train, Scene: formal, Participants: A (The conductor), B (The Passenger), Ends: The goals of each utterances are described above, Act Sequences: A came into the train, The train start moving, A wanted to light a cigarette in no-smoking area, Conductor warn him, Keys: Serious, Instrumentalities: Spoken Language,  Norms: rule must be obeyed, Genres: Conversation.