The Dispreferred Social Act of Blame - Admission

difficulties in performing the dispreferred action. The following dialogue represents the occurrence of dispreferred social acts performed by delaying and hesitating in the second pair part. Sabrina : I dont know. Theres the telephone and Internet and Skype, and..And Id be back every two months for meetings. Jason : Look I um I just The long distance thing, I I dont know. I dont I dont believe in it. Datum no. 2 Based on this datum, Jason performs a dispreferred social act in marked forms; those are delaying and hesitating. In the second pair part, he delays the response by using a delay marker “um” as well as a brief pause . Furthermore, he also performs a hesitation by repeating some words such as “I I dont know” and “I dont I dont believe in it”. Both realizations appear as the result of the speaker’s difficulty to perform a dispreferred response. In this context, Jason finds difficulties to perform his dispreferred response as he is afraid that his dispreferred response will insult Sabrina. This datum presents the dialogue between Sabrina and Jason a moment after they watched an opera. In the middle of their conversation, Sabrina tells Jason that she gets an offer to work in China. Hearing this surprising news, Jason looks unhappy as it means that they will have a long distance relationship. Therefore, Sabrina offers Jason to keep communicating and meeting him every two months. Nonetheless, he gives his dispreferred response by performing some delays, hesitations and an excuse to express his difficulties and unwillingness about an utterance which is being stated.

b. Prefacing

Another way to perform the dispreferred social act by the characters in this movie is by prefacing. A preface is carried out in the initial dispreferred response as a marker or an indication of the dispreferred social act which is going to be performed. After performing a preface, the speaker performs a disagreement or refusal statement. Jason : How about John 15? That’s my mother’s favorite. Sabrina: Well, it’s our wedding, so Datum no. 13 There is an occurrence of dispreferred social act of question which leads to an unexpected answer found in this datum. However, this dispreferred social act is not directly shown in the initial response. Instead, Sabrina uses a preface “well” in her initial utterances. It appears as an indication that a dispreferred social act is going to be performed by her. In this conversation, Jason and Sabrina are discussing about a verse that will be read in their wedding. Jason asks Sabrina to choose a verse that becomes his mother’s favorite as it will make his mother happy. Unfortunately, Sabrina gives a dispreferred response by showing her disagreement. As it seems difficult for her to say the dispreferred response, she uses a preface and does not continue her utterance to minimize the effect of the dispreferred social act which may intrude their social relationship.

3. Expressing Doubt

Expressing doubt is one of the realizations of a dispreferred social act which is used by the characters in Jumping the Broom. In this sense, the clause “I