Object of the Study

24 and preference structure. At this step, a comic strip conversation is analyzed using a conversation analysis to see the turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and sequences; and deeper using the preference structure to see the preferred and dispreferred response to some pairs. In the analysis, the writer uses “A”, “B”, or “C” to refer to the speaker. “A” as the first speaker, “B” as the second speaker, or “C” as the third speaker. After analyzing the conversations based on conversation analysis and the preference structure, the writer then proceed to the next step that is to analyze the patterns of dispreferred response that Brutus uses as the response to the first part in the comic strip. Here the writer also applied theory of dispreferred by Yule in which he presents the pattern of dispreferred response. After finding these results, the writer then reached the final step of completing the conclusions of the research that has been implemented. 25

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

In this chapter, there will be two analyses. These analyses are the answers of the problems from the first chapter. The first analysis is on the conversation structure used in the comic strips. The second analysis is to find the patterns of dispreferred response that Brutus uses as the response to the first part. The comic strips The Born Loser is one of a daily comic strips that are posted in a newspaper The Jakarta Post. In the analysis below the writer chooses comic strips from year 2011 as the samples which are from July, August, September, October, November, and December to be analyzed. There are 184 comic strips, from those comic strips only 121 that the writer uses as the samples in the analysis. All comic strips used in the analysis are numbered and represented in the appendices. Table of the Comic Strips Used as the Samples Month Comic Strips Not Used Used July 31 9 22 August 31 14 17 September 30 13 17 October 31 12 19 November 30 8 22 December 31 7 24 Total 184 63 121