Steve: Well, this Interruption
speaking partner decided to continue hisher turn. In connection to the object of this study, in this movie there were five occurrences of transitional overlaps
with two reasons. Characters in this movie did transitional overlap mostly because they knew what was going to be said by the current speaker. In whole
cases, they mostly did transitional overlap because they wanted to show that they were annoyed with what was being said by the current speaker. For more
details, the conversations and discussions are provided as follows.
The occurrence of transitional overlap above was taken at scene where Ronnie and Blaze were at fair looking for T-shirt at clothing stall. Blaze asked
Ronnie to steal a T-shirt instead of buying it. She even convinced Ronnie that it was safe by saying
“It‟s OK. I do it all the time.” However, Ronnie did not want to steal it. Ronnie showed her refusal by doing o
verlap to Blaze‟s right after she finished her utterance at her TRP. Ronnie
who has monitored Blaze‟s utterance cut
Blaze‟s utterance in their TRP to stop her chance in continuing her turn. At the point where Blaze could decide continue her turn, Ronnie said
“
No.
I can‟t. I already got busted once.” Ronnie said that because she was annoyed 4:22 Ronnie:
How much? Blaze:
Err... Twenty. Ronnie:
Too much. Blaze:
Oh, wait. I‟m sorry. Today, it‟s free. Ronnie:
No, no. Stop
Blaze: It’s OK. I do it all the time.
Ronnie: No. I can’t. I already
got busted once.
Blaze: Ooooh, A woman with a record.
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by Blaze‟s provocation to steal a T-Shirt. That is why this kind of overlap is categorized as transitional overlap.
In other scene, there was also an occurrence of transitional overlap. This overlap happened in a conversation among Will, Scott, and Marcus.
The conversation above happened when Scott was talking to Will. They were discussing a party plan with their girlfriends, Ashley and Casssie when
suddenly Marcus appeared and hugged Scott from his back. At the same time he said
“Where you been, buddy? Ha? You guys don‟t hang out with us anymore” Then, Will who hated Marcus for a long time because he knew that Marcus was
a bad guy tried to stop Marcus from disturbing his conversation with Scott. After Marcus finished his utterance, Will hurriedly shouted
“
Get off him Get off
” He said his utterances their Marcus‟ TRP where Marcus could decide to continue his turn. Thus, as next speaker, Will did a transitional overlap. He had
monitored Marcus utterance and hurriedly took his floor right after he finished his utterance. Furthermore, Will
cut Marcus‟ utterance because he wanted to tell Marcus he was annoying. Meanwhile, the following is a transitional overlap
done by Ronnie in her conversation with Will. 4:23 Scott:
No skipping it tonight. OK. Will yes. Ashley yes. Ashley yes. Cassie yes. Cassie yes. Scott yes Come
on. Take one for team Scott.
Suddenly Marcus comes and hugs Scott from behind. Marcus:
Where you been, buddy? Ha? Yo u guys don’t hang
out with us anymore. Will:
Get off him Get off
Marcus: I love you, Will. You‟re so butch.
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The conversation above shows a transitional overlap done by Will. As the next speaker, he had
monitored Ronnie‟s utterance to finish. So when Ronnie reached their TRP, Will hurriedly entered the floor. Will took his turn at
TRP because he wanted to correct what was said by Ronnie. He wanted to tell Ronnie that he was just a volunteer in the repair shop, not a mechanic.
Another occurrence of transitional overlap happened between Ronnie and Jonah. The conversation is shown below.
The conversation above was taken at scene when Ronnie got home after she was caught stealing a bracelet. Jonah who was afraid to their mother
reaction to what Ronnie done innocently said “Mom‟s gonna flip out.”
Jonah wanted to tell Ronnie that their mother was going to be possibly angry at her.
Meanwhile, Ronnie who had already depressed about her mother‟s reaction
asked Jonah not to talk about that. In the conversation, it can be seen that Ronnie had monitored and waited Jona
h‟s utterance to finish. So when Jonah reached their TRP, Ronnie hurriedly said
“Shut up. OK, Jonah?” Ronnie‟s overlapping talk was to tell Jonah that what he said was annoyed her and she
4:24 Ronnie: What are you doing here?
Will: What are you doing here?
Ronnie: I ask you first.
Will: I‟m here to mark a turtle nest.
Ronnie: You work for the aquarium too? I thought you
were a mechanic.
I called yesterday.
Will: I don’t work there. I volunteer
there.
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