him. The conversation above is a farewell-farewell adjacency pair because both parts of the conversations contain farewell.
Another example of farewell-farewell adjacency pair can be seen in the following conversation. The conversation is still between Juliet and Romeo. The
conversation is as follows.
4:26
JULIET: My sweet, so do I. But I would kill you by petting you too much. Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I’ll say good
night until tonight becomes tomorrow.
ROMEO: I hope you sleep peacefully. I wish I were Sleep and Peace, so I could
spend the night with you. Now I’ll go see my priest, to ask for his help and tell him about my good luck.
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : Farewell-Farewell APACT-2S2P8F-F-S
When Juliet and Romeo are about to part, Juliet says her farewell. She says “Good night, good night”. Good night is a parting expression and used when a
person is going to sleep. The farewell is strengthened by Juliet’s utterance that parting for her is a sweet sorrow “Parting is such sweet sorrow that I’ll say good
night until tonight becomes tomorrow”. Romeo responds to Juliet’s farewell by saying “I hope you sleep
peacefully”. The phrase is farewell from Romeo to Juliet. He hopes that Juliet sleeps well during the night.
Based on the analysis of the conversation, it can be said that conversation above is a farewell-farewell adjacency pair because both parts of the conversation
contain farewell. The last example of farewell-farewell is shown in the conversation below.
The conversation is between Juliet and Romeo.
4:27
JULIET : Then the window lets day in, and life goes out the window. ROMEO: Farewell, farewell Give me one kiss, and I’ll go down.
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : Farewell-farewell APACT-3S5P2F-F+R
The conversation happens in Juliet’s bedroom. Romeo climbs the wall to enter Juliet’s room. He goes in through the windows. When the morning is about
to break, Juliet reminds Romeo to leave and go down. She says her farewell “Then the windows lets day in and life goes out the windows”. Juliet wants
Romeo to get out of her room through the window. It is Juliet’s farewell because actually she does not want Romeo to leave her.
In the second part of the conversation, Romeo also says his farewell. He says it very clearly and cheerfully “Farewell, farewell Give me one kiss, and I’ll
go down”. Thus, based on the analysis, the conversation above is a farewell- farewell adjacency pair because both parts of the conversation contain farewell.
2. The Preference Sequences in the Modern Script of Romeo and Juliet Movie
Levinson divides preference structures into preferred and dispreferred social acts. The preferred is the structurally expected next act and the dispreferred
is the structurally unexpected next act. The distinction between the preferred and dispreferred second parts is subjective or psychological rather than logical or
rational.
a. Preferred
According to Levinson, the preferred is the structurally expected next act. In Romeo and Juliet movie, there are 71 preferred structures and because all of
them have similar pattern, the writer only takes three as the examples. The first example of preferred structure is in the following conversation.
4:28
ROMEO: Don’t saints and pilgrims have lips too? JULIET : Yes, pilgrim—they have lips that they’re supposed to pray with.
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : Preferred APACT-1S5P5Q-A+Q
The above conversation is between Romeo and Juliet. It is when they meet each other below Juliet’s balcony. The conversation above contains preferred
structure because the second part of the conversation is the answer of the question in the first part of the conversation.
4:29
JULIET: What time tomorrow should I send a messenger to you? ROMEO: By nine oclock...
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : Preferred APACT-2S2P8Q-A+Q
The above conversation is between Romeo and Juliet. It is when they meet each other below Juliet’s balcony. Juliet asks what time she should send a
messenger to Romeo and he answers it by saying “Nine o’clock”. The conversation above contains preferred structure because the second part of the
conversation is the answer of the question in the first part of the conversation. Another example of conversation that contains preferred structure is the
conversation between Juliet and Romeo when they are parting. The conversation is as follows.
4:30
JULIET : Oh, do you think we’ll ever meet again? ROMEO: I have no doubts. All these troubles will give us stories to tell each
other later in life. P
: 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet S
: Juliet’s balcony
LF : Preferred APACT-3S5P3R-FA+R
The above conversation contains preferred structure. The conversation is made by Juliet and Romeo after they meet for the first time in the Capulet’s party.
In the conversation, it can be seen that Juliet is asking if they could meet again someday and in the second part of the conversation, Romeo accepts the request
and he promises that they would meet again someday. Based on the analysis of the conversation, it can be seen that the second part of the conversation is a
preferred structure because it contains a response to the request.
b. Dispreferred
In Romeo and Juliet movie, there are 29 dispreferred structures. The writer only takes two of them as the examples because the rest of them have the same
pattern. The first example of dispreferred structure lies in the following conversation.
4:31
ROMEO:What should I swear by? JULIET: Don’t swear at all. But if you have to swear, swear by your wonderful
self, which is the god I worship like an idol, and then I’ll believe you.
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF :Dispreferred APACT-2S2P5Q-A-Q
The conversation is between Romeo and Juliet. They have their secret meeting below Juliet’s balcony. In the conversation, Romeo asks what he should
swear by and Juliet answers that he does not need to swear at all. It is clear that
the second part contains unexpected act. That is the disagreement toward Romeo act. That is why the adjacency pair above contains a dispreferred structure.
Another example of dispreferred structure in adjacency pairs can also be seen in the following conversation. The conversation is between Sampson and
Gregory, the servants of Capulet family. The conversation is as follows. 4:32
SAMPSON: What I mean is, if they make us angry we’ll pull out our swords.
GREGORY: Maybe you should focus on pulling yourself out of trouble, Sampson.
P : 1. Sampson, 2. Gregory
S : Public space
LF :Dispreferred APACT-1S1P1A-AD-S
In the conversation above, Sampson asserts that if “they”, which means Montague family, make trouble with Capulet family, he would pull his sword and
fight them. Unfortunately, Gregory expresses his refusal by saying that it would be better if Sampson avoids troubles for himself. It is clear that the second part of
the conversation is an unexpected act and therefore, it can be said that the adjacency pair contains the dispreferred structure.
Another example of a dispreferred structure is as follows.
