Findings FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
assessment-disagreement can be seen in the dialogue between Astrid and Hiccup below
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Astrid : I think you’re missing the point… I mean, chief
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What an honor
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I’d be pretty excited
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Hiccup : I’m not like you
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You know exactly who you are
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You always have
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But
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Datum 5 The dialogue happened when Astrid gave her opinion about Hiccup,
who was appointed as the next chief of Berk
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She expressed her imagination of living as a chief and the advantages that came along with that
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However, Hiccup responded with a disagreement
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Hiccup was not sure about himself, and disagreed with how Astrid thought of him
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In this datum, the disagreement is shown directly in the example as Hiccup emphasized it with “I’m not like you”
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The emphasized words mean that Hiccup responds negatively to Astrid’s assessment towards him and his
choice
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Thus, it shows that direct disagreement is part of the dispreferred response under the assessment-disagreement
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In a conversation, the disagreement will follow the assessment as the second speaker shows that he or she does not agree with the first speaker
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It is illustrated in the example of Eret and Hiccup’s conversation below
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Eret : Puh You won’t be changing any minds around here
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Hiccup : I can change yours
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Right here
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Right now
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Datum 16
This dialogue happened when Hiccup met Eret and his men after hearing about Drago Bludvist, the dragon capturer
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Eret was looking at Hiccup suspiciously, but Hiccup still tried to listen to Eret’s reasoning
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This situation resulted in Eret giving his opinion about the possibility for Hiccup to
change any dragon capturers’ mind to get closer to the dragons
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Hiccup then responded negatively by defending his argument
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Unlike the first example, in this datum Eret’s utterance is not being responded directly as a disagreement
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Instead of including the word “no”, Hiccup responds by defending his argument
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He tries to emphasize his disagreement by saying “Right here
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Right now
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” which means he is not going to lose his argument
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Furthermore, the assessment-disagreement is also performed by giving an order to the second speaker
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The negative response that occurs in the second part of the conversation indicates the dispreferred response, Stoick’s
utterance to Hiccup in the example below
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Stoick : Easy now
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Hiccup : Are you kidding me? How’d you get in here?
Datum 25 Hiccup stayed at Valka’s hideout while suddenly Stoick came with
Gobber and clamped his mouth to prevent the young boy from screaming
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Stoick told Hiccup to calm down by saying “Easy now”
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However, Hiccup was very shocked to know that Stoick found him without knowing that his
mother Stoick’s long-lost wife was still alive and that place was her hideout
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Hiccup responded negatively with his disbelieve of the situation
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Hiccup shows his disagreement indirectly
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This way of responding negatively towards the first speaker’s utterance is included in the assessment-
disagreement dispreferred response
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Hiccup’s way to respond to the assessment-disagreement is not limited to the direct disagreement and stated his opinion
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Another assessment- disagreement performed by Drago Bludvist and Hiccup is shown in the
dialogue below
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Drago : This
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is the great dragon master? The son of Stoick the Vast? What shame he must feel
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Hiccup : All of this loss, and for what? To become unstoppable? To rule the world?
Datum 28 The dialogue happened in the war between Hiccup and his allies versus
Drago Bludvist
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Drago was attacking Valka and Stoick, Hiccup’s parents while they were in their dragons
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When Valka and her dragon knocked off, Stoick commanded his dragon to battle Drago
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At that moment, Hiccup was stopping Drago’s Bewilderbeast or the new alpha
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Disappointed at what Hiccup did, Drago mocked him while comparing Hiccup with his dad
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Hiccup did not engage in the conversation, instead he asked Drago the reason why he
did all of this
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