CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Problem
English is widely used in the world and has become the international language for a lot of people. The function of language itself is for communication. By having good communication, people will be able to have connection to each other wherever they come from.
Almost all of our activities in our daily life need a communication in order to share our ideas, feelings to other people. The way to communicate our ideas is by making language. According to Discourse by Guy Cook (1989: 26), language can be separated by some functions; emotive function, directive function, phatic function, poetic function, referential function/carrying information, metalinguistic function and contextual function. Cook explains the emotive function as the inner states and emotions of the addresser. The words like ‘Fantastic’, ‘Ugh!’, ‘Oh no!’ represent what feeling the addresser has. The second is the directive function which is sought to affect the behavior of the addressee. Directive means to direct someone or addressee to do something.
‘Please help me’, ‘Shut up!’, ‘I’m warning you!’ are some examples of directive functions which we use in our daily live. The third is the phatic function which is used for opening such a conversation and for practical ones. ‘Hello’, ‘Lovely weather, isn’t it?’, ‘Do you come here often?’ are some expressions we sometimes use to open a conversation with new people. ‘Are you still there?’, Can you see the blackboard from the back of the room?’, Can you read my writing?’ are the examples for the practical ones where people try to make communication to others through the environment around them all. The forth is the poetic functions which the particular form chosen is the essence of the message, such as BEANZ MEANZ HEINZ which is an interesting advertising slogan means if you buy beans, you will naturally buy Heinz. The fifth function is the referential function which means carrying information. We
1.1 Background of the Problem
English is widely used in the world and has become the international language for a lot of people. The function of language itself is for communication. By having good communication, people will be able to have connection to each other wherever they come from.
Almost all of our activities in our daily life need a communication in order to share our ideas, feelings to other people. The way to communicate our ideas is by making language. According to Discourse by Guy Cook (1989: 26), language can be separated by some functions; emotive function, directive function, phatic function, poetic function, referential function/carrying information, metalinguistic function and contextual function. Cook explains the emotive function as the inner states and emotions of the addresser. The words like ‘Fantastic’, ‘Ugh!’, ‘Oh no!’ represent what feeling the addresser has. The second is the directive function which is sought to affect the behavior of the addressee. Directive means to direct someone or addressee to do something.
‘Please help me’, ‘Shut up!’, ‘I’m warning you!’ are some examples of directive functions which we use in our daily live. The third is the phatic function which is used for opening such a conversation and for practical ones. ‘Hello’, ‘Lovely weather, isn’t it?’, ‘Do you come here often?’ are some expressions we sometimes use to open a conversation with new people. ‘Are you still there?’, Can you see the blackboard from the back of the room?’, Can you read my writing?’ are the examples for the practical ones where people try to make communication to others through the environment around them all. The forth is the poetic functions which the particular form chosen is the essence of the message, such as BEANZ MEANZ HEINZ which is an interesting advertising slogan means if you buy beans, you will naturally buy Heinz. The fifth function is the referential function which means carrying information. We
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