Jonah: Mom’s gonna flip out.
nervousness that caused him difficulty in saying his utterance, continued Scott‟s
last word. Steve calmly said “
fire?
” at the very end of Scott‟s utterance because he had already known what was going to say by Scott. In this
conversation, Steve recognition on Scott‟s problem in conveying his message
and his decision to cut his utterance is categorized as progressional overlap. Further to this, Steve did this overlap because he wanted
to hear Scott‟s confession as soon as possible. He had waited for long time to know the truth of
the accident. So, when he finally knew the truth he was very excited and could not wait to hear it. Thus, he did the overlap to show his urgency to know the
truth. 3.
Recognitional Overlap In
The Last Song
movie, recognitional overlap occurred when a character already recognized how hisher speaking partner was going to finish
hisher turn and then started talking before hisher partner had a chance to finish hisher utterance. In
The Last Song
movie, there were four occurrences of recognitional overlaps in the movie with various reasons. The first occurrence
happened in a conversation among Jonah, Ronnie and Steve. 4:28 Jonah:
What just happened? Steve:
Your sister just got kissed. Ronnie:
Dad
Steve: Well, you did. Look at= her.
Ronnie: =No
Steve: Jonah, Look at her face
Ronnie: Dad Steve:
your sister. Hey let’s write a song =about being
kissed Ronnie:
=No, don’t write a song about that
Jonah: =I’m going to
be sick. 00:41:.55-00:41:11
The conversation happened in a situation when Ronnie went back home after having a date with her boyfriend. She looked very happy. Her face blushed
and she smiled cheerfully. Then Jonah, who was playing a game at that time, looked at her and asked innocently
“
What just happened?
” Their father who
was working on his song at that time calmly answered “
Your sister just got kissed.
” Steve‟s answer made Ronnie shy. In panic, she immediately shouted
“
Dad
” Ronnie‟s word did not make Steve stopped to tell Jonah about her
kissing. Then he said “
Well, you did. Look at = her. Jonah, Look at her face
” However, before he could finish his utterance, Ronnie shouted again saying
“
No
” In this point, Ronnie made a recognitional overlap because she was feeling annoyed by what was being said by her father. She was shy with the fact
that her father kept talking about her kissing. Moreover, he talked about it in front of her little brother who was not appropriated enough to talk about adult
thing like kissing. Even though Ronnie tried to stop her father to talk about kissing, Steve kept talking about it by saying
“your sister. Hey let‟s write a song
= about being kissed
” Jonah who had shown his discomfort to this conversation topic from the first time finally got up from his chair and left to his room with
saying “=I‟m
going to be sick.
” While Ronnie who was very shy on what was
being said by her father shouted “=No, don‟t write a song about that”
Thus, it can be assumed that both Ronnie and
Jonah recognized when his father was going to finish his utterances. That is why they did not give any attention to it
because they were feeling annoyed by what was being said by their father. Then they decided to cut their father utterance near their TRP
, ignoring his father‟s