The Preference Structure Adjacency Pairs

23 B: Yes but Shanti, strong-willed person has to take another for better or worse the same as the one without strong wills. 2 Responding to Question A question always demands a proper answer. Nonetheless, not all answers are right in the sense that they do answer the interviewer’s question. In regards to the response to question, it is categorized into five types, i.e complying, implying, supplying, evading and disclaiming Stenström, 1994: 114. a Complying Complying is the only direct and adequate type of response to a question. The other responses or questions are not exactly or not considered at all straight to the point. Thus, it is said that complying gives no more than the information being asked for. Example: A: When is it? B: Tomorrow at four twenty. b Implying Implying means the act which indirectly gives answers to the question or implicitly gives proper information; otherwise, it answers the question indirectly. Example: A: Do you want the applicants to go to the registry office directly? B: Not many. The conversation indicates that B answers the question indirectly. B wants the applicants to go to the registry office but not many. c Supplying 24 Supplying becomes part of an answer that produces inadequate information. It does not really answer the question or does not give a clear answer. Moreover, supplying attempts to give additional information that sometimes is unrelated the question. Example: A: Was she a personal friend of yours or? B: Hmm…well… She used to be my senior. Here, B does not necessarily answer the question, because she does not clarify whether ‘she’ was a personal friend or just a senior. This answer is typically introduced well, often combined with pauses. d Evading Evading is part of answer which neglects to answer directly. Example: A: Um..Well do you have any other argument? B: Well, they didn’t give any. In the example, B neglects to answer the question directly by referring to another person who is absent. e Disclaiming Disclaiming denotes that the answer is still unidentified. Usually the addressee states hesitation, and then she continues with an answer that is true and straightforward but it does not clearly provide an answer to the question and does not pretend to do so. Example: A: What will happen when somebody breaks in and robs it – am I covered or? B: Mm… honestly I don’t know 3 Responding to Request 25 There are two kinds of requests, that is, action request and permission request. “Request is face threatening acts for two reasons. They are costly to the addressee and benefiting the speaker and they are open to rejections” Stenström, 1994: 116. There are three responses which are possible to a request, namely accepting, evading, or rejecting. a Accepting Accepting is an act that can be both positive and fully satisfactory action. Example of action request: A: And could you get us some coffee please? B: I’ll. Yes. Example of permission request: A: May I open the window? B: Of course you may. b Evading Evading is the of the addressee’s act to show that shehe cannot do or avoid to do what the speaker intends. Example: A : Could you see what’s still to come Mia, coz I think they....there are two performance of each one. B : Trouble is I don’t regularly have a paper it doesn’t get delivered. So, sometimes buy one and... In the example above, B really wants to carry out what the speaker asks to, but B cannot perform the order for an clear reason. She does not say so in ordinary and straightforward words; instead, she tells the reason. c Rejecting Rejecting is an act of disagreeing the speaker’s request. Example: A: Is Professor. Langdon there please?