Speech Acts and Politeness Strategies in Dr. Pedrito C. Pontillas’ Speeches

The flow of the Study

• Speeches must have a dominating message for the faculty and members

• Must be 5-25 minutes in duration• Must be composed of at least 1000

minimum words to a maximum of 3000 words

Criteria:

“Ako naning gipahibalo sa uban nakong mga kaubang maestro, na dili ko mahimong Campus Director, kung

wala ko mahimong scientist…”

Speech Acts Frequency Percentage

Representatives 55 37.93%

Directives 47 32.41%

Expressives 15 10.34%

Declaratives 15 10.34%

Commissives 13 8.97%

TOTAL 145 100%

Speech Acts

"Do not forget! At eight o'clock tomorrow until 8:15, all faculty members will report to the audio-visual room for the opening ah…meeting of the inter-external audit of our ISO

9001-2008, for 15 to 20 minutes only."

Politeness Strategies

Frequency Percentage

Positive Politeness 35 40.23%

Off-record 27 31.03%

Bald-on 15 17.24%

Negative Politeness 10 11.49%

TOTAL 87 100%

Politeness Strategies

Findings:

- Representatives are the most committed act in the three speeches while commisives are the least committed act

- Positive politeness dominated among other strategies while negative politeness least dominated

Conclusion: The representatives in speeches presents how the speaker used it

most with a power and persuasion to assert his opinions to the audience and his opinions are more convincing due to his position and the fact of being a leader.

The positive politeness it appeals to the side of the hearer because of this, it is very appealing to the side of the hearer which can boast the good camaraderie and rapport between the leader and his people. The sense of professionalism as well dominated the atmosphere and thus leads the speaker to be more polite in all sense in all the speeches.

“We can do things better today than yesterday and better

tomorrow than today.” -Dr. Pedrito Pontillas