A – B – A – B – A – C
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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.
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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.