Abstract
<span>The aim of this study is to describe the speech act of advising found in an interactive story telling event in a classroom setting. The speech act of advising is one of the sub type of directive speech act based on Searle’s classification which is different from other subtypes such as suggesting. The data on the speech act were taken first by identifying the interaction occuring as the unit of analysis, then points out the units which show advising. Finally, using the theory of speech act and politeness and considering social and cultural contexts, a description of any aspects related to the speech act of advising was proposed. This study found that advising is not performed directly in story telling. Instead, most of the utterances reflect indirect advices. Within the framework of intertextuality and the function of story telling in educational context, the writer comes to signify that a storytelling activity enables the teacher performs many kinds of advises delivered in non threatening mode. Comparative study on the effectiveness of indirect advice through story telling and direct advice should be the prospective further study.</span>
Highlights
Telling a story is a form of delivering mandate or message
Speech action originates from the theory put forward by Austin (1962) and Searlie (1969) which states that language is used to describe the world but to take action
In storytelling activities, storytellers are not just telling a life story, but more than that explicitly or implicitly expressing the meanings of life which are intended so that the listeners absorb these values in him to eventually have certain behaviors as intended by the storyteller. It implies that the main speech acts in story telling are directives
Summary
Telling a story is a form of delivering mandate or message. In the event of storytelling, several components of communication appear, namely the storyteller as the messenger, the story as the message, and the listener as the message receiver. All forms of message are material for study in discourse analysis. The writer is interested in studying speech acts. Searlie (1979) developed illocutionary speech acts into five forms of speech, each has communicative functions, namely assertive, directive, expressive, commissive, and declarative. One thing that stands out in storytelling events is the emergence of messages that are meant to influence listeners' thoughts about the values of life. It is assumed that directive speech acts are mostly found in the events of storytelling.
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