An Analysis of the Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary of the Oprah Winfrey Show

This research describes locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Statements of problems of this research are: What are the expressions of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts expressed in the utterances spoken by Oprah in The Oprah Winfrey Show in episode interview with J.K Rowling? What are the types of illocutionary acts that used by Oprah in The Oprah Winfrey Show in episode interview with J.K Rowling? And What is the most frequent type of the illocutionary acts used by Oprah in The Oprah Winfrey Show in interview with J.K Rowling?\ud This research design is qualitative research. The subject of this research is Oprah as a host in The Oprah Winfrey Show when interviewing J.K Rowling. The object of this research are locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts that used by Oprah. In order to collect the data, the writer uses some techniques: watching the show, identifying the script, tabulating the data, and concluding the data.\ud Based on the analysis, the writer found 102 data that related to locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the Oprah’s utterance. Among those 102 data the writer found 22 data of locutionary act, 80 data of illocutionary act, and 94 data of perlocutionary act. From 80 data of illocutionary act, Oprah uses 67 directive types, 7 assertive types, and 6 expressive types

Despair disguised as entertainment: Does Oprah Winfrey sensationalize human suffering in order to fuel her media empire and encourage other media to follow?

These papers describe position of a popular medial star Oprah Winfey and her influence for today’s culture and tries to show all the points of view on the problematic of her controversial TV show program and all the business around her. The Oprah Winfrey Show is about a certain form of social suffering that originates in the family and that is articulated from the experience and viewpoint of women inside the family. Ironically, while western photojournalism and the evening news regularly import nonwestern images of war, famine, and natural disasters, The Oprah Winfrey Show represents the first television genre that exports American forms of suffering to the rest of the world, a suffering that differs significantly from the imported kinds in that it is individual, private and concerns the self. Oprah made a whole world about her. People are running their lives based around the programs they watch. The Oprah Winfrey Show is about a certain form of social suffering that originates in the family and that is articulated from the experience and viewpoint of women inside the family. Confessional discourse is deployed on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and consumerism, expressions of anxiety and fragmentation, and therapy all coexist with the announcement of self-recovery and self-realization that come from narrating one’s own story. Oprah operates through an interplay of ‘ordinary’ topics, which is her mark, as well as that of the guests, and extra-ordinariness confirmed by her celebrity status. The Oprah Winfrey Show convinces its viewers that their personhood is tied to community, friendship and familial networks but more importantly, that their self is purpose-driven and capable of contesting oppressive forces. What is fascinating is that this mantra of self-betterment acts as an umbrella over the Oprah persona, which stretches across her multi-media empire. Her show, her Web Site, her magazine, her book club, her films, her made for TV movies, even her friends make up the Oprah community. There is a definite mixture of charity, television and the consumer market. Frequently called trash TV, talk shows are cited as representing the worst excesses of cheap television, signaling the ‘dumbing down’ of culture.’ It’s a complex mix of celebrity, media synergy, and female buying power

Congruent and Metaphorical Coding Based on Grammatical Mood and Speech Function in Oprah Winfrey’s Talk Show

This research is to examine the use of Mood and Speech Function in Oprah Winfrey’s Talk Show. Oprah Winfrey’s Talk Show is chosen because it is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 1986 to 2011. It is highly influential and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. The analysis of this research based on Eggins, S and Slade (1997:184) which includes Congruent and Incongruent Realization of Speech Function. This paper concerns on the analysis of Congruent and Incongruent of Mood and Speech Function in Oprah Winfrey’s Talk Show. This uses descriptive research method, in which the data are described systematically to get an accurate and factual result. The data used in this study are the clauses containing of grammatical mood and speech function used by Oprah Winfrey’s Talk Show. The finding describes that as a talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, has a power to express Incongruent or Metaphorical Coding in Realization of Speech Function. It also to analyze how the mood and speech function realized in the conversation in Oprah Winfrey’s Talk Show.     Keywords: Congruent, Incongruent, Metaphorical Coding, Mood, Speech Functio

GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL ANALYSIS IN OPRAH WINFREY TALKSHOW

This study deal with the analysis grammatical and lexical in talkshow Oprah Winfrey. The objectives of the study were not only to find out the grammatical and lexical meaning, but also to describe how the host used grammatical and lexical in talkshow Oprah Winfrey. The data in this research were taken from talkshow Oprah Winfrey. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. In doing this research, the data were analyzed using library research. The source of data in this study was utterances taken from video talk show of Oprah Winfrey that entitled Peter Walsh’s stripped Down Family Challenge, which downloaded from Youtube. The data focused on the utterances of the guest and host in talkshow Oprah Winfrey that consist of Grammatical and Lexical Meaning. From the data obtained, there were one hundred and six (106) utterances found in talkshow Oprah Winfrey. It was found 2 types of Semantic in this research, there were 63 utterances of Grammatical meaning and 43 utterances of Lexical meaning. To analyze the data, the researcher used the theory proposed by Miles & Huberman (2014) to know the grammatical and lexical meaning

Oprah Winfrey: Rescuing, Rewriting, and Wrecking Cultural Ideology

While some people maintain that books and television exist simply to entertain the populace, we have known for a long time there are messages within the stories that the media transmits. On the surface these media may look as if they are simply telling an engaging story, yet that story is inevitably political. The media’s messages are a part of everyone’s acculturation. Sociologists tell us that the media influence modern human’s socialization into cultural and identity formations. Feminists, who also recognize this fact, have often pointed to the anti-woman sentiments couched in everyday entertainment. Oprah Winfrey, a widely influential American talk show “hostess, claims to challenge these racial and patriarchal messages, mixing social commentary with entertainment. However, a few recent articles discuss how she actually does the opposite, rescuing a damaged cultural ideology. One instance of this is found in Debbie Epstein and Deborah Lynn Steinberg\u27s article “All Het Up!: Rescuing Heterosexuality on The Oprah Winfrey Show:\u27\u27 They state that ‘Ihe twin frameworks of therapy and presumed heterosexuality have all but ruled out the possibility for questions to be raised about power relationships and patterns of social inequality” (Epstein and Steinberg 110). Epstein and Steinberg are a part of a group of writers who believe that the Oprah phenomenon reinforces the dominant cultural Ideology, rather than challenging it. This paper will explore both sides of this argument (whether the Oprah phenomenon rescues or wrecks cultural ideology) through an examination of the entire Oprah phenomenon. After close readings of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah’s public persona, and Oprah’s Book Club, I found that the Oprah phenomenon both problematizes racist and patriarchal ideologies and normalizes them, (what I describe as “endorsement/problematization”). I theorize that the tension between these two views creates a space for viewers to become active auditors of popular culture

Discourse Analysis: Textual Function In Oprah Winfrey

This study deals with Theme and Rheme in Oprah Winfrey. The objectives of the research were to find out the most dominant type of theme used in Oprah Winfrey. The tweets in Oprah Winfrey around 38 tweets used as the source of data in this research. This research was performed by using the descriptive qualitative method. The technique for analyzing data were copying all the content in Ms. Word to be printed out, separating each sayings to be analyzed based on the data and time, analyzing every sentence in the column of the sayings based on the types of theme, classifying the theme based on the type of Simple Theme, calculating the percentage of each theme, finding out the dominant type of theme in Oprah Winfrey. The findings indicated that Simple Theme there were 89.85% of Theme (Unmarked) and 10.15% of Theme (Marked). It means that the dominant type of Simple Theme in Oprah Winfrey was Theme (Unmarked) that was 89.85%

Construction of Readership in \u3cem\u3eEbony\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eEssence\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eO, the Oprah Magazine\u3c/em\u3e

Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association

An Analysis of Conjunctive Relations Found on Oprah Winfrey’s Speech at Spelman University

This study is focused on the Conjunctive Relations found in Oprah Winfrey's speech. In this case, conjunctive relations were analyzed through how Oprah Winfrey realized them. The objectives of this study were (1) to find out types of conjunctive relations found on Oprah Winfrey's speech (2) to find out the dominant type of conjunctive relations found on Oprah Winfrey's speech and what is that mean. To reach those two objectives, the writer used both Halliday and J. R. Martin's theory. There are two categories of conjunction namely external and internal conjunction. Later on, those two categories classified themselves into four types of relations namely additive relation, adversative relation, causal relation, and temporal relation. This study used qualitative design because it is framed in terms of using words instead of numbers. The result showed that there were 106 clauses with conjunctions in Oprah's speech. The internal conjunction found were about 52 clauses, while the external conjunction found were about 16 clauses. Both external and internal conjunction was dominated by the causal relation. The causal relation indicated that Oprah Winfrey used a lot of reasoning because causal relations made her able to convince the audience to believe with her statements. Furthermore, causal relation made her speech seems natural, influential, and emotionally convincing to the hearer

Oprah\u27s Not Over \u27Til Harpo Returns

Peter Newby\u27s theory of \u27Arepoid\u27 word squares being merely classical recreational linguistics is fine as far as it goes, but he marred his discussion by supplying perfect examples of English construction. If, as he suggests, AREPO is a non-word, then each of his squares also should have contained a non-word

Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and Postmodern Popular Audiences

In this essay the author examines the Oprah Effect on the career of Toni Morrison, who after three appearances on Oprah\u27s Book Club has become the most dramatic example of postmodernism\u27s merger between Morrison\u27s canonical status and Winfrey\u27s commercial power has superseded the publishing industry\u27s field of normative whiteness, enabling Morrison to reach a broad, popular audience while being marketed as artistically important