Delaying or Hesitating Discussion

pair part’s feeling and thought. The way of doing dispreferred second turn by using appealing for understanding illustrated below in the conversation between the main character and the other characters. Joanne : I’m sorry, I’m sorry. You yelled at her in the middle of a restaurant? Lane : It was not in the middle of restaurant, okay? It was towards the back, facing a window, and second of all, I didn’t yell at her. It was — It was more of a blurt. I—I blured at her. I couldn’t help it. She was being serenaded by her famous tennis star boyfr — Her gorgeous, famous, tennis-star boyfriend who has a foreign accent, and whisks her away to exotic places, and has passion and has the cutest little dimples you’ve ever seen. I have to add that onto my checklist. Joanne : Lane, stop it SC 0404BD From the conversation above, it can be seen that Lane tries to deny a mistake that she has made in a restaurant. She denies that when Joanne starts to blame her after she hears a rumour that Lane has an argument with Alicia in that restaurant. Joanne starts the conversation by asking a question. She wants to know the truth whether Lane has just yelled to Alicia in the middle of the restaurant or not. Therefore, Lane takes her turn in the conversation to give her respond to Joanne’s accusation. Lane denies that accusation by giving so many reasons that will make Joanne understands her situation. The second pair part denies her mistakes by giving her reasons. It is called as an appealing for understanding strategy to do dispreferred act on the second pair part in conversation.

d. Taking Yes

When someone uses taking yes ’ strategy as hisher respond to other people’s statement, generally hisher statement will be considered as a preferred second pair part. However, sometimes to make a rejection, denial, or other negative respond sound not too harsh, people tend to start the sentence by taking yes. Taking yes is not only used to make the respond sounds not too harsh, but also can be used to make the statement come after it has a stronger effect, more synical, more hurtful, or more harsh. The strategy of taking yes to do dispreferred act on the second pair is illustrated in the conversation below. Liam : Oh, are you okay, Love? Lane : No. I just got fired from my job, and ruined everything. I want you to just come over and hold me, and cheer me up. Liam : I’d love to, Lane, I really would, but I’m actually out of town. SC 3440IR The conversation above is a conversation between Liam and Lane. Lane tells Liam, her boyfriend, that she is not in a good condition because she has just got fired from her company. Liam calls her on the phone and asks her condition. Lane wants Liam to accompany her since she believes that his presence is a comfort to her in her grief.