It is clear that the first part of the conversation is an assertion and the second part of the conversation contains a response from Romeo with his
disagreement. Therefore, it can be said that the conversation above is an assertion – agreementdisagreement adjacency pair.
h. Summons – Answer
The next adjacency pair found in Romeo and Juliet movie is summons- answer adjacency pair. This type of adjacency pair is indicated by the words that
show summons in the first part of the conversation and an answer in the second part of the conversation. In Romeo and Juliet movie, there are only 4 summons-
answer adjacency pairs and three of them are discussed below. The first example of summons-answer adjacency pair taken from the
movie is the conversation between Juliet and Romeo. The conversation is as follows.
4:22
JULIET: Hist, Romeo Hist Oh, I wish I could make a falconer’s call, so I could
bring my little falcon back again. I’m trapped in my family’s house, so I must be quiet. Otherwise I would rip open the cave where Echo sleeps. I
would make her repeat his name until her voice grew more horse than mine by repeating, “My Romeo”
ROMEO: My soul is calling out my name. The sound of lovers calling each
other names through the night is silver-sweet. It’s the sweetest sound a lover ever hears.
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : Summons-Answer APACT-2S2P7S-A+O-I
The conversation above happens below the Juliet’s balcony. Juliet stands in her balcony and Romeo is on the ground below her and is covered by the
darkness. The conversation occurs when Romeo leaves Juliet because the morning is about to break. It seems that Juliet does not want Romeo to leave, so she keeps
summoning Romeo by saying “Hist, Romeo Hist” and “My Romeo”. The summons is heard by Romeo and he answers her “My soul is calling out my
name”. It is clear that Romeo answers his soul summons; Juliet is his soul that summons his name many times.
Based on the conversation above, it can be said that the above conversation is a summons-answer adjacency pair. It can be proven by the first
part of the conversation that contains the summons and the response in the second part of the conversation contains the answer.
More examples about summons-answer adjacency pair can be seen from the conversation between Benvolio and Mercutio. The conversation is as follows.
4:23
BENVOLIO: calling Romeo, my cousin, Romeo, Romeo MERCUTIO: He’s a smart boy. I bet he slipped away and went home to bed.
P : 1. Benvolio, 2. Mercutio
S : Mercutio’s place
LF : Summons-Answer APACT-2S1P1S-A+S
The conversation above clearly indicates a summons-answer adjacency pair. Benvolio in the first part of the conversation is calling Romeo, “Romeo, my
cousin, Romeo, Romeo”. Unfortunately, Romeo does not hear him and the one who answers the calling is Mercutio who is with Benvolio at that time. Mercutio
answers that Romeo must be too tired and he is straight to home to get a sleep. Another example of summons-answer adjacency pair lies in the following
conversation between Juliet and Romeo. The conversation is as follows. 4:24
JULIET : Romeo ROMEO: My baby hawk?
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : Summons-Answer APACT-2S2P8S-A+S
The above conversation is between Juliet and Romeo. It happens at night when Romeo breaches Capulet’s house just to meet Juliet from her balcony.
Knowing that someone is coming below her balcony, Juliet summons “Romeo” because she is very sure that the only person coming to her balcony at night is
Romeo. In the second part of the conversation, Romeo answers “My baby hawk?”; it is Romeo’s answer toward Juliet’s summons.
Therefore, it can be seen that the first part of the conversation is the summons and the second part is the answer. Hence, the conversation above is a
summons-answer adjacency pair.
i . Farewell – Farewell
The last type of adjacency pair found in Romeo and Juliet movie is farewell – farewell adjacency pair. This type of adjacency pair can be indicated
from the use of farewell expression in the first and the second part of the conversation. Farewell is leave-taking or goodbye expression that people usually
use when they are leaving or parting. In Romeo and Juliet movie, there are 8 farewell-farewell adjacency pairs.
Among the 8 farewell-farewell adjacency pairs, the writer only takes three of them as the examples. The first example is the conversation between Juliet and Romeo
and the conversation is as follows.
4:25
JULIET : A thousand times good night. ROMEO: Leaving you is a thousand times worse than being near you. A
lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as
miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school.
P : 1. Romeo, 2. Juliet
S : Juliet’s balcony
LF : farewell-farewell APACT-2S2P7F-F+S
The conversation happens after Juliet and Romeo has a long conversation for the whole night. Juliet suddenly says her farewell to Romeo because she hears
that the Nurse is approaching her room and calling her name. Juliet’s farewell is as follows “A thousand times good night”. Goodnight is a standard leave-taking
expression at night. Romeo, in the second part of the conversation, is also saying his farewell but in an indirect manner. He says that leaving Juliet is painful to
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.
