PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF QUESTIONS FOUND IN THE TV SERIES THE OFFICE

Questions are always present in people’s lives as they used daily conversation, not only a tool to initiate conversation but also keep that alive and at the same time gain information from interlocutor. This research aims investigate syntactic forms of questions their pragmatic functions found TV series entitled The Office Season 1 data source. were interrogative utterances, answers, context conversation. results show 409 found, consisting 214 (52%) yes/no 195 (48%) WH questions. What outnumbers other question words with total 117 (60%) These serve 27 pragmatics functions, seeking most frequent function, amounting 140 or 34% whole data. dominant use word what function might be due setting place where is held, is, Office.