| Abstrak/Abstract |
This study investigates the speech act of promising found in the first five episodes of the TV series Gilmore Girls(2000). Promises were categorized based on their directness strategies. The direct promising strategy is identified using the IFID of the speech act of promising, that is the performative verb promise, while the indirect promising strategy is identified and categorized into 10 types of indirect promising strategies proposed by Ariff and Mugableh (2013): pure promise, discourse conditional, tautological-like expression, body-part expression, self-aggrandizing expression, time expression, courtesy-like expression, swearing expression, adjacency pair, and false promise. The results show that the most commonly used strategy was the indirect promising strategy (94.3%) as the characters in the series tend to make promises casually by not using the performative verb promise. Then, the most frequent indirect promising strategy is pure promise (31.3%). In addition, there are two distinctive types of indirect promising strategies found in the TV series,namely, hidden promise and sarcastic promise strategies. This finding suggests that there are many other ways to make promises besides using the performative verb promise and the modal verb will since the context of the conversations could indicate future acts which a speaker is committed to do. |
