The Use of Speech Act in the Football Interview by Jose Mourinho: A Contrastive Study

AGUS, PUTRO ANGGORO (2014) The Use of Speech Act in the Football Interview by Jose Mourinho: A Contrastive Study. Skripsi,Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

This study aims at investigating the types of speech act that occur in two football match interviews and analyzing the possible meaning in the utterances of interview. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method to find out the types of speech act and the possible meanings that occur. The data of this research are the utterances taken from two different interviews: the winning match interview and the losing match interview. The result shows there are 28 utterances, which are mostly found in the losing match interview with 17 types of speech act, while in winning match interview, there are 11 type of speech act.The types of speech act utterances in the interview of the losing match are more various than the interview of the winning match. It seems that Jose Mourinho more carefully answers the questions of the reporter. He does not want to get more punishment with his speaking or comment about the decision of the referee in the match against Aston Villa. On the other hand, in the losing match interview, there are representative act, directive act, and expressive act. The most dominant of speech act from those interviews is representative act, which has reached 16 total number utterances. It shows that Jose Mourinho speaks more about anything that he believes because he wants to express his feelings in the interview.

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