Directive Speech Acts

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DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN CLAIRE FREEDMAN AND ALISON EDGSON’S “FOLLOW THAT BEAR IF YOU DARE” A PAPER Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Assignment for Lecture Introduction to Pragmatics Lecturer: Jiah Fauziyah, M. Hum. By: LISDA FARIKHATUNNISAK|09150062| ARDIANA ROSYID|09150097| ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ADAB AND CULTURAL SCIENCES STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA 2012 1. INTRODUCTON “Follow That Bear if You Dare” is a children illustrated short story by Claire Freedman and Alison Edgson. Erlangga for Kids as one of the division from Erlangga publisher in Indonesia got license from Little Tiger Press in London to translate it into Indonesian in 27 June 2008. ( Claire Freedman and Alison Edgson. 2008. Follow that Bear If You Dare!, Bilingual: Ikuti Beruang itu kalau Berani). Erlangga.)It tells about a hare and a rabbit who were close friends. The hare loved bears very much. The hare asked the rabbit to accompany for hunting bear by the instruction of a book about bear hunting. By reading the book, they started to hunt a barrier and scarier bear. The rabbit felt anxious for hunting bear once in a while, but the hare still insisted to have bear hunting. They continued to hunt by following the book page by page. Finally, they found a bear that was hungry. Surprisingly, when the hare and the rabbit read the last page about what the bears liked to eat which were hares and rabbits, they ran quickly to escape for not being the meal of the bear. Generally, an illustrated short story tells about a series of event which contains some narrative and dialogue. The narrative is about the description of series of event and the dialogue is the conversation that is written in the text.( Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary3 (CALD 3). 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) Here, the dialogue may reflect how the speaker

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