Appeal for Understanding The Patterns of Dispreferred Response that Brutus Uses as the Response to the First Part

51 token yes, and apology that follow by the explanation of the dispreferred response. List of the analysis of those patters are put in the table of dispreferred patterns in the appendices. In the comic strips, sometimes Brutus gives dispreferred response when he talks to his family in his house, his boss and friends in the office, the waiter and waiterss in the restaurant or cafe, and some random people. From the analysis, there are some different responses that show by Brutus when he talks to people around him. When he talks to his family especially Gladys 5019viii and Wilberforce 11624x, Brutus just uses an account. The following are some of the examples: Gladys: I can’t take any more of this hot, humid weather. I’d prefer a winter blizzard Brutus: I disagree. Gladys: You do? Then tell me one thing that’s better about this kind of weather Brutus: I don’t have to shovel it Wilberforce: Do you always hold your fork in your right hand when you eat, pop? Brutus: No, I hold it in either hand. I guess when it comes to eating, I’m ambidextrous Gladys: In other words, he holds his fork in whichever hand will get the food in his mouth quickest In the office, when Brutus talks to Mr. Veeblefester 398viii, he tends to use some patterns. From 10 comic strips, there are 3 comic strips that uses give an account pattern. It shows that Brutus tries to avoid the dispreferred response as he talks to Mr. Veeblefester. It is different when he talks to his friends 1061410, he just simply us an account. Below are some of the examples: Mr. Veeblefester: This new product design was in the fax machine – I’ve told you to only send digital image files Brutus: Sorry, chief, I forgot – I guess sending faxes is a force of habit with me Mr. Veeblefester: Read my lips – no new faxes 52 Brutus’ friend: Have you eaten at the new Italian place down the street? Brutus: Once. The food was awful Brutus’ friend: You shouldn’t be too harsh in judging it – once just isn’t enough to grade a restaurant. You should give it another try. Brutus: You want me to pay to eat another lousy meal? From the analysis, the writer finds that from the analysis of 184 comic strips The Born Loser from July to December 2011, there are 89 comic strips that contain dispreferred response. From the 89 comic strips, there are 42 comic strips that contain dispreferred response that produce by Brutus. Most of the dispreferred response produce by Brutus has the pattern of an account. There are 28 from 42 comic strips that contain this pattern. There also other pattern they are preface, repetition, appeal for understanding, delayhesitate, token yes, and apology that follow by the explanation of the dispreferred response. When Brutus produces the dispreferred response, he tends to use some patterns. When he is at home, he simply gives an account when he produces the dispreferred response. It is different when he talks to his boss in the office. He tends to use some patterns that show he tries to avoid giving a dispreferred response. 53

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION

In conclusion, conversation analysis can be used to analyze conversation in the comic stip. There are three main parts in conversation analysis, they are, first is turn-taking, second is an adjacency pair, and third is sequences. From those there parts, the first part and the second part are dominantly found in the data. From the first part, the dominant data that can be found is the A – B turn, there are 39 comic strips. From the second part, the dominant data that can be found is the dispreferred response, there are 89 comic strips. The dispreferred response of the utterance in the conversation indicates by refusal or rejection to what the first speaker says. From the analysis of 184 comic strips from July to December 2011, there are 89 comic strips that contain dispreferred response. From the 89 comic strips, there are 42 comic strips that contain dispreferred response produced by Brutus. Most of the dispreferred response produced by Brutus has the pattern of an account. There are 28 from 42 comic strips that contain this pattern. There are also other patterns, they are preface, repetition, appeal for understanding, delayhesitate, token yes, and apology, all of those patterns follow by the explanation of the dispreferred response. Based on the analysis, Chip Sansom as the author of the comic strip mostly uses the adjacency pair as the dominant part of his work. Although the most dominant part of the conversation is dominated by adjacency pair, the other