DA Task 3 Jan Renkema’s Book Pages 50-51

Dessy Peruanti

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Discourse Class A

1. A suspect appears in court and reacts to a question posed by the judge in the following way:

A:        You are John Smith?

B:        I’ve been asked that three times already during the investigations.

            You should know by now.

Explain in terms of objectives and situation what is going wrong in this communication.

Answer:

 The function of A’s utterance could be that A wants to make B feel at ease by using the question from for the illocution “request”. A’s objective has a specific effect: B makes it clear that the illocution is misunderstanding. The strongly influenced by the situation in which the utterance takes place. The question “You are John Smith?” is asked by someone. It doesn’t function as a means of starting a conversation but as an interview and the B’s answer is disconnect with the question.

2. Explain why “language” and “marriage” can also be seen as institutions.

Answer:

Because it is used to describe those activities by which individuals construct and maintain a society it is showing as the mediators between individuals and society as a whole, or as the means by which individual can form a society. Moreover, “language” and “marriage” have an ethical aspect.

3. What is the similarity between the institution concepts as it is used in section 5.2 and the meaning of word ‘institution’ in the Institutia Oratoria by Quintillian and Calvin’s Religionis Christianae Institutio?

Answer:

The similarity between the institution concept and the meaning of the word institutions is can be viewed as the mediators between individuals and society as a whole or as the means by which individuals can form a society.

4. Divide fragment (3) using the strategies given in (4).

Answer:

a. Role behavior:

            To clarify behavioral expectations for a role before the interviewing process begins.

b. Differentiation trends

c. Institutional power

8. Describe the miscommunication in the following dialogue using the concepts ‘objective’, ‘effect’, and ‘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?

Answer:

~ The dialogue between two people is occurred miscommunication concept there are to forbidden activities and to be misunderstanding about the utterance of A.

~ The objective is to give the information that “there is no smoking there”. It is included the information discourse, but “B” is miscommunication about information from “A”.

~ The effect is to describe the phenomena that influenced by the forbidden to smoking.

~ The situation is described of evidence of pattern that could influence the interpretation, from the dialogue between A and B is occurred opposite meaning from the understanding of “B”.