Request-Refusal The Types of Dispreferred Responses Performed by Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon 2 Movie

by giving no answer . The dialogue between Astrid and Hiccup below is the example of question-unexpected answer . Astrid : excited What did you tell him? Hiccup : I didn’t . By the time he turned around, I was gone . Datum 3 Astrid and Hiccup discussed about Hiccup’s father who appointed him to be the new chief of their village . Astrid encouraged him to try it first while stating some advantages he would get when Hiccup became the new chief . Astrid then asked Hiccup’s answer regarding this matter . Hiccup responded negatively as he was already gone before Stoick could hear his answer . The unexpected answer with the expression “By the time he turned around, I was gone” indicates Hiccup’s indirect answer . This leads to Astrid’s disappointment . The occurrence shows the question-unexpected answer as Hiccup does not answers the way Astrid expects him . Another example of question-nounexpected answer in dispreferred response can be seen by the dialogue between Fishlegs and Hiccup . The situation happened when Hiccup and Astrid reunited with their friends after almost being captured by the dragon trappers . He and Astrid told them about the island that covered in icebergs and the unexpected move of the trappers . Hiccup’s friends asked him questions about their journey . Fishlegs then asked if there were any new dragon types which they had not seen in Berk . Fishlegs seemed to not understood what Hiccup was trying to say, which resulted in Hiccup responded by explaining what exactly they watched when they came across the island . Fishlegs : Any new dragons? Hiccup : No, this was different . Not the standard run-for-the- hills-hoo-ha I’ve come to enjoy . These guys were trappers . Dragon trappers . Datum 8 In the datum above, Hiccup does not respond Fishlegs’ question by giving her the answer of the new dragons, but instead he tells them about the dragon trappers . This answer is categorized as the dispreferred response because Hiccup gives the unexpected answer and tells her “no”, which indicates the less preferred answer Fishlegs expects . The dialogue between Astrid and Hiccup below is another example of question-unexpected answer dispreferred response . Astrid : But won’t that Bewilderbeast just take control of these guys, too? Hiccup : They’re babies . They don’t listen to anyone Datum 30 This datum happened when Hiccup and the other were preparing for the great war between their dragons and Drago Bludvist’s Bewilderbeast . Since Drago’s dragon had taken control of their own dragons, Hiccup and the other had no choice but borrowed the dragons from Valka . Astrid was worried about them, because Bewilderbeast could also take control of the dragons . However, Hiccup told her that the dragons were still babies and would not listen to anyone, including Drago’s Bewilderbeast . From the context above, Hiccup is indirectly saying “no” to the previous speaker, Astrid . By not saying “no”, Hiccup implied his meaning by telling her “They don’t listen to anyone” . Hiccup says the expression to explain the indirect “no” response to Astrid’s question .

e. Blame-Admission

Blame is the act when people say or think that someone did wrong or that he or she is responsible for something bad happening . The act of blame leads to the expectation of denying the accusation or blame . Thus, the admission becomes a dispreferred response . In this movie, the example of blame which leads to the admission is performed by Gobber and Hiccup in the dialogue below . Gobber : Who finally decided to show up for work . Yay . Hiccup : Sorry . Got held up . Datum 7 This dialogue happened when Gobber and Stoick talked about Hiccup as the next chief of Berk . Gobber and Stoick could not find the boy everywhere . Then, suddenly Hiccup showed up at his workplace . Gobber said his utterance with a sarcastic tone as he blamed Hiccup for being absent for half a day . Unexpectedly, Hiccup did not deny the accusation and just responded by saying “sorry” .