Ahmad Kirom

Name : Ahmad Kirom Nim : 07320064 ANALYSIS ON THE WHITE TIGER PLAY WITH SPEECH ACT, IMPLICATURES AND POLITENESS THEORY A. Introduction In this paper the writer will analyze this play script using some theories. This story was written by Mike for his play. This story tells about a family who live near the Kumgang Mountains in Korea. In the mountains there is a white tiger that always disturbs the people there. Father in this story is the finest gunman so that he wants to kill the white tiger. But he can not kill this white Tiger which lived in the Kumgang Mountains. The White Tiger continuously terrorized the village by preying on horses, cattle, and also humans. But the father never returns back to his home. His son has a dream to defeat the white tiger like his father so he always learns to be the finest gunman. And the last, he can kill the white tiger and brings back the people who has been caught by the white tiger especially his father. The characters of this story are Son, Mot

Speech Act Analysis on Barrack Obama’s Speech in Indonesia Ahmad Kirom 07320064 CHAPTER I A. Background of the study Speech acts are actions performed via utterances (apology, complaint, compliment, etc). They apply to the speaker’s communicative intention in producing an utterance. The speaker normally expects that his/her communicative intention will be recognized by the hearer. Both speaker and hearer are usually helped in this process by the circumstances surrounding utterances. These circumstances, including other utterances, are called speech events. In many ways, it is the nature of the speech event that determines the interpretation of an utterance as performing a particular speech act. For example, the utterance this tea is really cold (Yule, 1996:48), functions as a complaint if it is uttered on a winter day, when the speaker reaches for a cup of tea, believing that it has been freshly made. It may also function as praise if it is uttered on a really hot summer’s day, with th