Banjawan, Ginazel C. O.

P # 2
Cano, Jamaica Anne S.
Matilla, Anne Claire R.
Metrillo, Reymart T.
Negrete, Raven N.

BSE 4 ENGLISH 1
November 13, 2018

“Applying Speech and Thought Presentation in the Script

The Tinker’s Magic”

I. BACKGROUND

The modes of speech and thought presentation developed by Leech and Short are
formally very much similar but are differently exploited by writers. Therefore, the effects
they create vary from text to text and make a reader respond differently. The categorization
being discussed distinguishes between five techniques on the speech as well as thought
presentation cline. The following techniques are Direct Speech/Thought, Indirect
Speech/Thought, Free Direct Speech/Thought and Narrative Report of Speech/Thought Act.

The foremost influential system for the examination of discourse and thought
representation in story fiction is without a doubt that created by Mick Short and his co-
researchers. Leech and Short’s course reading contains the first orderly account of this vital
account strategy and their account is wealthy in illustrative cases (Leech and Short 1981).
More as of late, much work has been carried out by stylisticians on the way discourse and
thought is displayed in talk classes past those customarily classed as scholarly. As our chief
concern here is to create a set of devices that can be utilized moderately comfortably by the
understudy of dialect and stylistics, the brief outline of the show given in this unit will of
need be kept as straightforward as conceivable. To this impact, reference will be made
mainly to the early on medicines of the subject in Leech and Short (1981) and Short (1996).

OBJECTIVES

This paper aims to investigate how a speaker or writer presents the speech or
thought of the characters in the play “The Tinker’s Magic”. This also aims to identify
and give some examples of each type of representing speech, representing speech
acts and thought presentation in the script of “The Tinkers Magic” by using a table.
II. SUMMARY
“THE TINKERS MAGIC”

The Tinker’s Magic is a story of a little girl from an orphanage who thinks that
she is not like the other children because of being disabled. She stayed there for so
long and no one tried to adopt her. The matron of the orphanage talked to her and
explained to her that there is a reason for everything. In relation to her situation,
Miss Lee (the matron of the orphanage) told her a story about dolls whom also
thought that they were unwanted because the one who made them, gave them
disfigurements. The dolls wondered and showed hatred to the toy maker. As time
went by, the dolls knew the reason for their defects. They were peculiar because the
toy maker loves them so much that he do not want to sell them to others.

III. APPLICATION

The following are the data gathered on the script of “The Tinkers Magic”

CATEGORIES EXAMPLES

A. REPRESENTING SPEECH

I. DIRECT SPEECH 1. He said “Come on, champ. We have some

sparring partners for you. ”
2. He said “Marge, you better take this one
back and exchange it. There’s something
wrong with its equilibrium. ”
3. He said: “Come on, champ.”

II. INDIRECT SPEECH 1. He says that you are by far the loveliest,
even though you cannot walk.
2. He says that of all the Chinese dolls that the
toymaker made, the loveliest is Lau Ying.

III. FREE DIRECT SPEECH NONE

IV. FREE INDIRECT SPEECH 1. He says you ought to see my sisters.

2. He says my sisters are very lovely.
B. REPRESENTING SPEECH ACTS

I. NARRATOR’S 1. He won’t.
REPRESENTATION OF VOICE 2. He was thinking of you.
(NV) 3. He can’t talk.

II. NARRATOR’S 1. .
REPRESENTATION OF 2. .
SPEECH ACTS (NRSA) 3. .

III. DIRECT THOUGHT NONE

IV. INDIRECT THOUGHT 1. He dreamed of me, and made me, and

loved me.
2. He was thinking of the dolls that nobody
wanted.
3. He loves every one.

C. THOUGHT PRESENTATION
I. FREE DIRECT THOUGHT 1. I knew there was a reason!
2. I knew there was a reason why they were
not bought!

II. FREE INDIRECT THOUGHT 1. And he knew, from his long experience with
toys, that if he made you perfect you would
go away from him.
2. he always thinks of all the dolls he has
made.
3.

III. NARRATIVE REPORT OF A 1. .

THOUGHT ACT 2. .
3. .
 IMPLICATIONS
(Bakit gumamit ng ganoong speech ang writer)

IV. IMPLICATION TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

Representing speech and thought is a way of learning the way of how the
writers and speakers uses the words they uttered. As a language teacher, we can
engage our students to see and analyze how writers presents their words that they
uttered. The importance of having different point of views are the highlight of
teaching this lesson.