A – B – A – B – A – C

36 f. Offer - AcceptReject The waitress: May I help you, sir? → offer Brutus: I’d like an ice cream cone. →accept The waitress: What flavor would you like? Brutus: What flavors do you have? The waitress: All of them? Okay, here goes – vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, chocolate chip, cookie dough, peppermint stick, peach... Coffee, mocha chip, chocolate almond, maple walnut, butter crunch, pistachio, banana, caramel, coconut, frozen pudding, peanut butter, black raspberry... Lemon crisp, mint chip, cantaloupe, butter rum, penuche, fresh berry and ginger Whew What’ll it be? Brutus: I’ll have vanilla Brutus: Is there something you want? → offer Hurricane Hattie: Sorry to bother you, but can you tell me what time it is? → accept Brutus: No bother. Let’s see... It’s four-fifteen. Hurricane Hattie: - Brutus: Is there something else? Hurricane Hattie: Yeah – sorry to bother you again, but what time is it now? From the two examples above 4514viii and 1019x, the offer is accepted by the second speaker. In the first example and the second example Brutus accept the offer given by the waitress and Hurricane. g. Request – GrantRefusal Brutus: Gladys, would you please bring me a pitcher of ice water? → request Gladys: Good idea – in this heat, you should drink lots of water to stay hydrated → grant Brutus: Drink? I’m going to pour it over my head Wastrel P. Gravesite: Yo, ace Can you loan me twenty bucks till payday? → request Brutus: I guess that will be okay. And just when is payday? → grant Wastrel P. Gravesite : Don’t ask me – I quit this morning From the two examples above 4615viii and 9129ix the request is granted by the second speaker. In the first example the request is granted by Gladys, the second example the request is granted by Brutus. 37 In this analysis of adjacency pairs the writer finds 89 comic strips that contain dispreferred response. From the conversation most of the characters tend to disagree or give a refusal as the response to the first part. From the 89 comic strips, there are 42 comic strips that contain dispreferred responses, those are produced by Brutus. From all the characters, Brutus is the one who gives more a disagreement or a refusal as the response.

3. Sequences

They are pre-sequences that contain pre-request and pre-announcement, insertions sequence, and opening sequence. Below are the examples of each part:

a. Pre-sequences

There are 2 pre-sequences, they are pre-request and pre-announcement. The following are the examples: i. Pre-request Brutus: What would you recommend for me, tonight? → pre-request Waiter: Without question, our house specialty – chateaubriand for two Brutus: Would I have to share? The conversation 1111vii takes place in a restaurant where Brutus wants to have his dinner with Gladys. Brutus then asks the waiter What would you recommend for me, tonight? That question is a pre-request. Brutus asks the waiter before he chooses the food for the dinner. Brutus: What do you recommend? → pre-request The waiter: Today’s special – twin lobsters Brutus: Twins? How do you know they’re related?