Speech Act in a Courtroom: An Analysis of Chris Watts’ Trial
Journal Title: Allure Journal - Year 2024, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
The utterances produced by participants in a trial relates to their role and the trial stage. Therefore, everyone involved in the trial will produce a variety of speech acts. This research aims to describe the types of speech act in Chris Watts’ trial and to describe the functions of the speech act used in the trial. The analysis is based on Searle's theory of speech act (1979). The researchers used descriptive qualitative method to describe the types of speech act and the functions of the speech acts by analyzing each utterance produced by all of the participants in courtroom. The finding shows that there are 176 utterances of speech acts which consist of 79 representatives, 23 directives, 14 commissives, 51 expressive, and 9 declarations. The researchers also found 26 functions of speech act. The dominant speech act in Chris Watts’ trial is representative, because all the participants give statements of fact about the case during the trial. Moreover, the most frequently used function of speech act in Chris Watts’ trial is stating, because, most of the participants' utterance is used to state their belief and thought regarding Chris Watts’ case. In this research, the specific position of the speaker in the courtroom creates specific function of speech act used. The witnesses’ utterance is used to condemn the defendant, the judge’s utterance is used to sentence the defendant, while the prosecutor’s utterance is used to restate the witness’s statement.
Authors and Affiliations
uliana Heidi, Nina Setyaningsih
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP730334
- DOI https://doi.org/10.26877/allure.v4i1.17484
- Views 38
- Downloads 1
The Ability to Compose Academic Writing of the Sixth Semester Students of English Department Universitas PGRI Semarang in the Academic Year 2021-2022
This study investigates the ability of the sixth semester students of the English Department of PGRI Semarang University to compose academic writing. The main objective of this study is to find out the ability in com...
Portrayals of Power in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Veronica Roth’s Divergent Novels
This research aims to compare power aspects portrayed by the main character in The Hunger Games and Divergent novels and see the similarities and differences between those two novels. The object of this research is Suzan...
Conversation Analysis: Turn-Taking Analysis on Boy William Podcast Episode 06 in Collaboration with Cinta Laura
This study is proposed to analyze conversation analysis especially for turn- taking strategy in a podcast of Boy William especially in the 6th episode, collaboration with Cinta Laura Kiel, one of Indonesian artist. This...
The Relationship between English Language Proficiency and Logical Thinking Skills
The present study investigates the relationship between students’ English language proficiency and their logical reasoning reflected by their performance in applying spreadsheet program. Since logical thinking is the bas...
Semiotics Analysis on Historical Memes in Eno Bening’s Tweet Replies
This research is entitled Semiotics Analysis on Historical Memes in Eno Bening’s Tweet Replies. The study concerns with all the way the researchers explore the meaning of representamen/signs on either non-verbal and verb...