Watching the movie Research Procedure
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getting all the data. The analysis of the data was in the form of qualitative approach.
The data were discussed based on the theories provided. The researcher focused on adjacency pairs and politeness strategies utterance by the characters in
the movie. Those expressions were classified into two sections: kinds of adjacency
pair’s classifications and the politeness strategies. The following Table 2.0 showed the example of the analysis of the types
of adjacency pairs found in the data by the characters in the movie Sydney White. Description:
FAP : First part of Adjacency Pair SAP : Second part of Adjacency
Pair PST : Preferred Second Turns
DST : Dispreferred Second Turns
Table 2.0. The Example List of Adjacency Pairs Produced by the Characters of Sydney White Movie
No. Dialogue
Types of AP Preference
Organization Reasons
FAP SAP
PST
DST
1. Sydney: Dinky
Dinky What do we do?
Dinky : Oh, you just grab a guy.
Disc A
min 21p.9
Question Answer
√ Sydney
asked for
information to Dinky. She chose
to use
WH- question; “What” in order
to get the information. The “?” punctuation mark
showed that it was a question.
2. Sydney :Hi,
guys. All
: Hey.
Disc B
min 16p.27
Greeting Greeting √
The wor d “hi” was used
as an informal greeting and usually to people who
somebody knew. Sydney greeted all her friends in
the vortex, a place where they lived.
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Table 3.0 below gave the example from the analysis of politeness strategies in having adjacency pairs found in the data by the characters in the
movie Sydney White.
Table 3.0. The Example List of Politeness Strategy Produced by the Characters of Sydney White Movie
No Politeness
strategy Character
Utterance Reasons
1. Positive
Politeness Sydney
What do we do? Include both speaker and hearer
in the activity.
2. Off-record
Lenny Yeah, vision not
impaired. Sense of balance
restored. Feeling in fingers
and toes.
No visible...
-Be incomplete. -
“hanging in the air”
3. Negative
Politeness Sydney’s
father Just
a little
something. -Hedges on illocutionary force.
-As a modifier of propositional content.
-Act as a weakener
4. Positive
Politeness Sydney’s
father Its
actually something
you could use at college.
-Be optimistic. -Emphasize a fact or a
comment or that something is really true.
5. Negative
Politeness Dinky
Oh... Oh, I wish. -Be pessimistic.
-The speaker is not taking full responsibility for the truth of
the utterance.