Power Relationship between Examiners and the Examinee on Thesis Examination

Abstract

Language is a means of communication used by people around the world. When people deliver an utterance, they use the speech acts theory. In using speech acts, people need the power to communicate because it can make their expressions more powerful. In this research, the researcher used the Discourse Analysis (DA) to analyze how the examiners exercised their power to offer questions and how the examinee exercised his/her power to answer the questions. As a result, every job distribution in the thesis examination has distinctive characteristics. The form of language used when they exercise the power is also different, for example, the chairperson is interested in using the legitimate power. Therefore, the examinee should know the characteristics every job distribution’s examiners namely chairperson, secretary, advisor 1&2 before doing thesis examination in order that he/she does not feel afraid and nervous to defend his/her opinion in the thesis examination.

Keywords: power, examiners and examinee, thesis examination