Joanne : Lane, stop it
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The conversation above is a conversation between Joanne and Lane. Looking back to their relationship, Joanne is Lane’s bestfriend.
Here, Joanne asks Lane about the incident in the restaurant between Lane and Alice. Joanne starts to blame Lane about the rumour that she
heard in the restaurant. She wants to clarify whether Lane makes some commotion or not.
Lane clarifies that she has no intention to make some commotion in that restaurant. Lane makes some arguments that she
does not yell to Alice. Her arguments are used to defend her from the charge that was alleged by Joanne to her about the commotion in the
restaurant. In this scene, Lane shows her dispreferred social act by showing her strong arguments as her function of speaking in the
conversation. She denies all of Joanne’s accusation, and she tries to
explain everything to Joanne in order not to make Joanne misunderstood with her action.
c. The Participants
The participants in a conversation have an effect on the situation that will develop in the conversation. The participants give
influence to do dispreferred second turn in a conversation. Age, social status, official role, and personal relationship will make one
conversation different from the others. For instance, a conversation between two people who have a bad relationship, will contain more
dispreferred act on the second pair part compared to the conversation between two people who have a close relationship. Another example,
a conversation between two people having different official role, such as a conversation between a boss who commands his employee, has
less dispreferred second turn compared to a conversation between a public prosecutor with a defendant.
There are many conversations that contain dispreferred social act on the second pair part, because the participants in the
conversation have officially different role into each other. The example of this phenomenon can be clearly illustrated in the following
dialogues. Tom
: That is the best neurotransmitters I’ve ever had.
Lane : I’m glad. What’s this for?
Tom :
It’s for the presentation next week. What do you think?
Lane :
It’s okay. Tom
: You don’t like it?
Lane :
It’s not that I don’t like it. Tom
: It’s awful.
Lane :
It’s awful. If you’re gonna make visuals, Tom, you should make them visual. You
could use color and composition to enhance your pitch. You wanna surprise
them. Entice them, you know, make them want just a little bit more. Wait, what are
you
— Tom
: It’s all right. It’s all good.
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The conversation above is a conversation between Lane and Tom. Tom is Lane’s boss. However, eventhough he is her boss, yet,
he still considers that Lane is a good co-worker for him regardless of the status of her tenure in the company.
Tom always asks Lane’s opinion especially if it is related to their jobs.
As clearly seen in the conversation above, Tom asks Lan e’s
opinion about the layout that he has made for the presentation next week. At first, Lane gives her opinion that she likes it, but, Tom does
not believe in her opinion, eventhough he expects that Lane will like with his layout. Yet, Lane gives her real assessment which Tom
dislikes. Although Tom accepts her assessment, however, he still expresses his disappointment.
The participants in the conversation above, Lane the assistant and Tom the boss can lead to a dispreferred social act on the second
pair part, because sometimes when a boss asks something to his assistant, he expects a good respond. Yet, when the assistant gives her
honest opinion which is not expected by the boss, it will lead to a dispreferred second pair part in the conversation.
d. The Social Context of the Interaction
The social context of the interaction affects the participants to do dispreferred social act on the second pair part in a conversation.
The social context of the movie itself is about a woman who is
