Significance of the Study

Several types and examples of adjacency pairs are shownbelow. 1 Greeting-greeting Amy : Hello Jean : Hi Liddicoat, 2007: 107 Amy greets Jean by saying “Hello” and Jean answers with a greeting by saying “Hi”. The second utterance by Jean regards as a respond to the first utterance by Amy. Jean gives an answer as what Amy expected to cooperate in conversation. An example of question-answer sequence is demonstrated in the following dialogue. 2 Question-answer John : What time is it? Betty : Three uh clock. Liddicoat, 2007: 107 In dialogue above, John asks Betty about the current time. Betty gives an answer immediately b y saying “three uh clock” as a respond to John’s question “what time is it?”. It is to show that Betty gives an exact answer without silence. The following dialogue exhibit the last example of the last type of adjacency pair. 3 Telling-accept John : I’ve jus’ finish my las’ exam. Betty : That’s great. Liddicoat, 2007: 107 In the example above, the first turn of the pair initiates some actions which can be seen at the utterance “ I’vejus’ finish my las’ exam” and make the next action relevant as seen on the utterance “That’s great”. Both utterancesare relevant to each other.

b. Preference organization

Preference organization or preference structure is a pattern of the typical utterance of a response. It is usually used in a conversation sequence Yule, 1998:133. The basic distinction in preferred organization is that the emergence of an action might be avoided or sometimes delayed, but in other time an action might be performed directly. Here is the example. 1 invitation – accept Amy : W’ d yuh like tuh come over t’morrow night Jane : yea:h. = that’ d be nice 1 ’ invitation – decline Harry : I don’ have much tuh do on we:nesday. W’ d yuh like tuh get together then. 0.3 Joy : huh we::llhh I don’ really know if yuh see I’s a bit hectic fuh We:nsdayyih know Harry : oh wokay In 1 and 1 ’, the first turn of the dialogue initiates some actions while the second turn responds and completes to the prior turn. Liddicoat 2007 describes the first turn as First Pair Part FPP and the second turn as Second Pair Part SPP. In 1 and 1’, both the FPP of the sequence is the same, an invitation, but the respond to the FPP is quite different. In the first example, the SPP accept the invitation and the second SPP decline it. In a conversation, a participant may be able to decide an alternative to design their contribution towards conversation.When the action was accepted by the other partner, it is called preferred, and vice versa. In other words, actions which are performed immediately