EXPRESSIVE UTTERANCE FOUND IN GARY SMITH CHANNEL FA’A SAMOAN: SAMOAN WAY

Abstract

This thesis discusses the expressive utterances used by all participants in the Gary Smith Channel Fa’a Samoa: Samoan Way program. The purpose of this research is to identify the categories of expressive speech and to find the Structural forms of expressive speech. The research data consisted of expressive utterances that were collected and selected using the listening method using the free engagement speaking technique and the note-taking technique (Cornell). All expressive utterances were listened to Gary Smith Channel Fa’a Samoa: Samoan Way program and transcribed directly by the writer. The data were analyzed using the pragmatic equivalent method and connecting it with the theory of expressive speech forms proposed by Yule (1996) and Shopen (2007), the theory of categories of expressive speech by Ronan (2015), and the theory of context by Leech (1983). The results of the data analysis were presented in a descriptive form and analyzed argumentatively and summarized in a table. The results of data analysis found expressive forms of speech, namely declarative form, exclamation form, imperative form interrogative form. The dominance form of expressive speech used is the declarative form because all participants in this video often give statements to express their feelings. The categories of expressive speech found are Agreement, Disagreement, Volition, Thanking, Apologizing, Non-directed Complaints in Exclamations, Sorrow, and Greetings. The category of expressive speech that was dominantly used was volition because all participants often expressed their wish to see what happen next from Chief Sielu Avea.