Signaling rejection Research Findings

does not want to hear any further detail of the conversation is the reason for doing irregularity which ranks first. It suggests that characters tend to do irregularity when both characters speakers strongly understand the topic of the conversation which indirectly involves them in the topic. In addition, in most tangentialization, characters who do tangentialization must have close relationship to the other characters whose utterance are interrupted. Even though tangentialization is included into intrusive interruption, the results for doing it mostly create positive effects to the flows of the interrupted conversations. Meanwhile, for the second rank for doing irregularity, namely disagreement has totally disruption in conversations. It can be assumed that characters who do disagreement interruption have very strong tendencies to show their disagreements to others ‟ utterances. Thus, disagreement mostly occurs in a conflicted conversation topic, beside the characters themselves are in conflict. The discussion for the types of interruption and its purposes in The Last Song movie is presented below. 1 Cooperative Interruption Cooperative interruption in The Last Song movie occurs less than intrusive interruption. This is due to the explanation above that negative intention in interruption is more often to occur than the positive one. Thus the occurrence of positive intention in the movie occur less than the negative one. There are three kinds of purposes in doing cooperative interruption. Including to show assistance, clarification, and agreement. Further discussion on the occurrences of interruption in The Last Song movie is explained as follow. a Assistance In many interruption cases in The Last Song movie, sometimes characters thought their conversation partners needed help. It became the reason of why sometimes they interrupted their partners to save their partners from difficulties in conveying their utterances meanings or remembering something. The occurrence of assistance interruption was usually signed by the presence of pauses in the current speaker‟s utterance. From those pauses, the next speaker could obviously see that the current speaker had problem in giving hisher utterance and then decided to help by making interruption to the current speaker‟s utterance. The following is an occurrence of assistance in cooperative interruption: The conversation above took place at a time when R onnie, Steve‟s daughter just got home after having a date with her boyfriend, Will. Ronnie arrived home with blushing face and smiling to her father. Steve then curiously asked Ronnie about her date with Will. Steve asked twice to get her answer. When Steve said “Did you have a good time” Ronnie did not give any answer. 4:1 Steve: Hey, Did you have a good time? 09 What? Ronnie: I played today. Steve: That‟s…03 That‟s good. How did it feel? Ronnie: Like I never stopped.03 Dad…04 I probably talk about this with a girlfriend if I got one here, but I don’t, so…=06 Steve: =So you want to talk? You want to talk? Here we go, Let’s talk. Yeah? So, you… you like this guy? You like him,… you like him a lot? Ronnie: I like him more than a lot. Steve: Really? 00:55:02-00:56:29