Steve: How do you want me to respond, Ronnie? You
was also an occurrence of tangentialization in their conversation. The conversation is shown below.
From the previous conversation, it can be seen that Jonah was surprised by what Ronnie was doing. He thought that Ronnie had already bought a dress
in a store. He asked her where the money given by their father to buy a dress was. Ronnie answered that she had given the money to Blaze. This surprised
Jonah. After that, Ronnie asked Jonah not to tell their father about the money. Knowing Ronnie had not got any money to buy a dress, Jonah walked to his
cupboard to take his piggy bank and took some money and showed it to Ronnie. Ronnie was surprised with what he did. She asked
“
Where did you get all that?
” Ronnie asked Jonah curiously about how he could save so much money. Jonah
then calmly answered “Where to begin… This is for when I told Dad I didn‟t see
you at the festival. This is what I won playing liar poker… Remember when you snuck in past curfew in New York? That‟s for that. This is for the guy with the
4:19 Jonah: What happened to the money Dad gave you?
Ronnie: If you tell him I kill you, OK? I was on my way to
buy the dress and… I gave the money away.
Jonah: What?
Ronnie: Ssstttt Don‟t worry about it.
Jonah: Wow, you may be older, but I am so much smarter
than you. He walks to take his piggy bank and shows his money to Ronnie.
Ronnie: Where did you get all that?
Jonah: Where to begin… This is for when I told Dad I
didn’t see you at the festival. This is what I won playing liar poker… Remember when you snuck
in past curfew in New York? That’s for that. This is for the guy with the tattoo=…
Ronnie: =Ok, that’s enough. I
get it. I can’t take your life savings.
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tattoo=
” Jonah explained to Ronnie that he actually got the whole money from her. Understanding this, Ronnie then stopped
Jonah‟s utterance by saying “
= Ok,
that‟s enough. I get it. I can‟t take your life savings.” In this point Ronnie surely had already known what was going to say by Jonah. That is why she cut his
utterance because she did not want to hear his further explanation. Thus, this interruption is categorized as intrusive and the purpose for doing it was for
tangentialization. Another occurrence of tangentialization occurred in a conversation
between Ronnie and her father, Steve. They had a conversation in a very emotional situation when Ronnie finally knew that Steve had a last stadium lung
cancer. Knowing this made Ronnie shocked because for all these times her father never told her about his terrible health condition. Moreover, she knew this
at the time when her relationship with her father was getting better. This conversation took place in a hospital where Steve was taken care after he
suddenly fainted on the beach.
From the conversation above, it can be seen that Steve who was feeling guilty tries to calm Ronnie down by saying
“
Well,
this wasn‟t on the calendar. Ronnie=…” He tried to explain about his real condition to Ronnie in his second
utterance, but before he could continue his words, Ronnie suddenly cut his