Preferred response Preference Structure

21 Chip Sansom began to continue The Born Loser when he was 14 years old when his father, the late Art Sansom, first created the strip in 1965. After years of observing and assisting his father, he assumed that it was his destiny to be a cartoonist to continue what his father had done. “I am very happy that The Born Loser is still as appealing to readers, new and old, as it was when it first appeared 45 years ago,” Sansom said. “It is a tribute to the great characters my dad created and his universal and timeless premise that Brutus Thornapple is an everyman, taking the fall for the rest of us in the trials and tribulations we face everyday.” http:dailycartoonist.comindex.php20100505the-born-loser- celebrates-45-yearshttp:dailycartoonist.comindex.php20100505the- born-loser-celebrates-45-years 7 July 2010 After all The Born Loser is one of the most popular comic strips in the world. It had readers of more than 1,300 in newspapers around the world and on the Web at www.gocomics.com. It appears daily in more than 35 countries and as the result it is also translated into nine languages. The Born Loser also gets into a six-time National Cartoonists Society award nominee for Best Humor Strip in 1991 and 1987. In the 1990, Topper Books published a compilation book The Born Loser’s Guide to Life http:dailycartoonist.comindex.php20100505the- born-loser-celebrates-45-years 7 July 2010.

B. Method of the Study

The writer used library and internet research as the method of the study in analyzing this thesis. The materials were taken from newspapers, library, and websites. The sources of this study were divided into two, they are primary and secondary sources. 22 The primary source of the study was the comic strip written by Art and Chip Sansom, The Born Loser. The secondary sources of this study were books and articles from internet and library; they included theories, references or any related topic. There were some steps that the writer did to analyze the comic strip. First, the writer collected all comics from July to December 2011. After all the comics were collected, the writer chose the comics that have Brutus Thornapple as the first speaker, second, or third speaker to be analyzed. Next, the writer began to analyze the comics using a conversation analysis and a preference structure view, this is the first analysis. After finishing the first analysis, the writer began the second analysis to see the patterns of dispreferred response that Brutus uses as the response to the first part in the comic strip.

1. Data Collection

The writer collected the data manually from newspapers and websites. The data was collected during July to December 2011. Not all of the comic strips are sufficient for the research that is why the writer needs to analyze all the comic strips and collects the samples. Strategies that will be used in the manufacture of the sample are purposive sampling strategy. Based on the book written by Sudjana, Metoda Statistika, purposive sampling occurs when the sampling is based on personal considerations.