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relationship level, conversational maintenance work, tentativeness, and responsiveness.
1. Attention to the Relationship Level
Attention to the relationship level that was shown in Angelina Jolie‟s
utterances was the relationship between lover or husband and wife. All of the dialogues here were taken from Jane and her husband
‟s conversation.
Dialogue 1
Jane : Nice. So what did you decide?
John : I want a divorce.
--- Jane
: So what do you want, John?
John : We have an unusual problem, Jane. You obviously want me dead. And
Im less and less concerned of your wellbeing. So what do we do? Do we shoot it out here? Hope for the best?
The dialogue happened in the ballroom hotel where John proposed to Jane. Jane was depressed because she thought John died in the explosion that happened
inside the elevator. While she was sitting in one of the tables in the ballroom, someone came, held her hand and poured some wine in the glass in her hand. It
was John and he was still alive. They had conversation at the table before they moved to the dance floor. Jane‟s utterances “So what did you decide?” and “So
what do you want, Jo hn?” were considered as attention to the relationship level
because she was talking as a wife and she also asked John about their relationship.
Dialogue 2
Jane : Why is it you think we failed? Cos we were leading separate lives?
Or was it all the lying that did us in?
John : I have a theory. Newly formed.
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This conversation happened on the ballroom. There were three sentences that had been said by Jane which were chosen and categorized as women‟s
speech. Jane‟s utterance “Why is it you think we failed? Cos we were leading separate lives? Or was it all the lying that did us in?” was categorized as attention
to the relationship level because it showed that she asked John about their marriage and marriage status as a husband and a wife. The level of talk between
them focused on feeling and the relationship between the communicators.
Dialogue 3
John : I thought... I thought you looked like Christmas morning. I don‟t know
how else to say it. Jane
: And why are you telling me this now?
John : Guess in the end you start thinking about the beginning. So there it is. I
thought you should know. So how about it, Jane? Hmm?
The dialogue happened via mobile phone after they danced together. John called Jane while both of them were driving toward their house with different
cars. At first, John called her to complain about the bomb that she put on his coat. He also told her that he was going home and would burn everything that he ever
bought for her. It was only some minutes passed when John called for the second time. This time, he was not complaining, but he asked her first thought when they
first met. Jane refused to be the first one to tell John about it and asked him instead. He told Jane his feeling when he saw her for the first time. John wanted to
know her real feeling about him, but they were still fighting and Jane felt curious and strange. Therefore, she asked him his motive by saying those things
. Jane‟s question was considered as attention to the relationship level because she put
herself as a lover and a wife when she asked that. Jane‟s question also conveyed
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