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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.
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In this case, the researcher who asked to collect data on something that has been fixed in advance, in practice he collects necessary data in accordance
with the consideration and or take advantage of all the information in a predetermined category. Thus, taking the sampling unit is determined by
the researcher until it is adequate. Sudjana, 1989: 168 Based on this technique, the writer decided to take a comic strip with the
following criteria. First, the writer collected all comics that are published during 2011. Next the writer took comics during six months from July to December
2011. After that the writer chose some comics that contain Brutus Thornapple as the first speaker, second, or third speaker. Finally the comics that have been
selected were ready to be analyzed.
2. Data Analysis
In analyzing the data there were several steps that the writer did. First of all, the writer started the study by analyzing the data. Then the writer developed a
framework to simplify in writing this thesis. In addition, the author combines the data that have been collected to the competent writing. The following were steps
undertaken by the writer in conducting the study of this thesis. As a beginning, all the data were numbered. The writer used numbers
inside brackets to refer to the data used in the analysis. Inside the brackets, there are 3 numbers that separated by slash. The first number referred to the number of
data used in this thesis. The second number referred to the date of the comic strips. The third number referred to the month of the comic strips. After that the
writer did some research on the existing comic strips. Furthermore, the writer chose the comic that is considered enough for conversation to be studied. The
comic strips that were selected then were analyzed using conversation analysis
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and preference structure. At this step, a comic strip conversation is analyzed using a conversation analysis to see the turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and sequences; and
deeper using the preference structure to see the preferred and dispreferred response to some pairs. In the analysis, the writer uses
“A”, “B”, or “C” to refer to the speaker. “A” as the first speaker, “B” as the second speaker, or “C” as the
third speaker. After analyzing the conversations based on conversation analysis and the
preference structure, the writer then proceed to the next step that is to analyze the patterns of dispreferred response that Brutus uses as the response to the first part
in the comic strip. Here the writer also applied theory of dispreferred by Yule in which he presents the pattern of dispreferred response. After finding these results,
the writer then reached the final step of completing the conclusions of the research that has been implemented.
