Theories on Movie Analysis

Blakelee, a person to whom she then deeply falls in love. The other trouble comes when Will‟s parents do not allow Veronica to become Will‟s girlfriend. What makes this movie interesting is the occurrences of turn-taking irregularities in the conversation among characters that often occur. The occurrence of the irregularities is the result of bad relationships among the characters. It can be seen from the bad relationship between Veronica and her father as result of her father‟s divorce with his mother. The divorce also creates terrible relationship between Veronica‟s father and mother. Thus, they often have arguments. Another problem is that Veronica is not expected to present in her boyfriend‟s family. For this reason, conversations they make tend not to run well. They often have arguments to each others. As a result, they frequently do interruption or overlap when they have conversation. There are turn-taking irregularities when they do not have same opinion to each other or just to show rejections, disagreement, or floor-taking. They also do irregularities when they want to change topic of conversation. There are more reasons they use to violate their conversations. What shown above are only some examples. Further, this study will analyze in more details to the types of irregularities and the reasons in doing them.

B. Previous Study

This study is not the first research analyzing turn taking irregularities. There has been a study investigating turn taking irregularities entitled “An Analysis of Interruptions Presented by the Characters in Rhymes‟ Grey‟s Anatomy Series- Season 1”. This research was conducted by Made Utari Prabesti, a student of English Language and Literature in Yogyakarta State University. There are some differences between the recent study and Pra besti‟s study. First, the recent research investigates turn-taking irregularities in more detail ways and more modern theories, including two different types of turn- taking irregularities of overlaps and interruptions. Meanwhile, the previous study analyzed turn-taking irregularities in only one type or turn-taking irregularity, which is interruption. Moreover, the previous study uses a theory from Ferguson to divide four types of interruptions. Those are simple, overlap, butting-in, and silent interruption. Meanwhile, the recent study uses some theories that are more convincing in the partitions of turn-taking irregularities. Although in the previous study overlap is included in the types of interruptions, it does not mean that overlap in the previous study has the same meaning with overlaps in the recent study. In the recent study, overlap stands by itself as a type of turn taking irregularities and has clear characteristics as stated by some experts such Zimmerman and West. To gain more detail insights, the recent study uses theory from Jefferson to analyze the types of overlaps and theory from Murata to analyze types of interruptions. The last is that the recent study analyzes a movie entitled The Last Song