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strategies are correlated to each other: starting up strategy, taking over strategy, and interrupting strategy. Though Sulistyowati’s study also deals with a movie,
her thesis has different focus from this study. She pays more attention on the turn taking strategies in the Pursuit of Happiness movie, while the researcher in this
study focuses on the adjacency pairs in the Romeo and Juliet movie script. Aside from those two previous studies that have been reviewed, the
researcher of this study takes a different object to study. The researcher takes a very famous film adapted from a very popular play entitled Romeo and Juliet, the
most tragic-romantic play ever. The researcher conducts the study about the adjacency pairs which exist in the movie. The researcher of this study also decides
to use the modern version of the movie script to get better result of the study because the researcher realizes that modern version is really easy to analyze than
original version.
C. Conceptual Framework
In order to make the study easier to understand, the researcher needs to construct the theoretical framework. The framework gives the researcher
boundaries of how far she would conduct the study. In this study, the researcher studies about the main characters’ conversations in the Romeo and Juliet movie
script. The script used in this study is not the original one but the modern one because the original script is rather difficult to comprehend.
The analysis of the conversations is based on the adjacency pairs study proposed by Schegloff and Sacks. They catagorize adjacency pairs into nine:
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greeting-greeting, question-answer,
request-refusal, command-compliance
incompliance, blameaccusation admission-denial, offer-acceptance or refusal, assertion-agreement, disagreement, summon-answer, and farewell-farewell. The
researcher also discusses preference structure that will be divided into preferred structure and dispreferred structure. Finally, the researcher conducts the study
about function of the responses. To make the framework clear, the researcher makes an analytical construct below.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter deals with research methods which include type of research, data and source of the data, research instrument, data collecting technique,
trustworthiness of the data, and data analysis. Each of which is presented as follows.
A. Research Types
The research employed descriptive qualitative approach by which descriptive data were gained. Bogdan and Biklen 1982: 39-48 state that
qualitative approach is a research bringing about the descriptive data in the form of written or oral data from the subjects of the research being investigated.
Meanwhile, Krathwohl 1993: 740 argues that qualitative research describes phenomena in words instead of numbers or measures.
This research was qualitative in nature due to its data characteristics and descriptive analysis. The qualitative research was done to describe particular
phenomena or situations analytically that become the focus of the research. This research was also supported by a quantitative analysis is which the researcher
used numbers and percentages measuring the occurrences of the types of adjacency pairs, the preferences structures, and the function of responses in the
conversations of Romeo and Juliet movie script.
