Figure A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DISPREFERRED ACT ON THE SECOND PAIR PART BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE BEAUTY AND THE BRIEFCASE.

xv A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DISPREFERRED ACT ON THE SECOND PAIR PART BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE BEAUTY AND THE BRIEFCASE By: Irma Krisna Murti 10211144028 ABSTRACT This research aims at analysing the phenomena of adjacency pairs particularly in term of dispreferred social act on the second pair part which are portrayed by the main character in the movie Beauty and the Briefcase. The phenomena which are presented and analyzed in this paper are the types of dispreferred act on the second pair part which are uttered by the main character, the ways of doing dispreferred social act on the second pair part, and also social factors which influence the main character to do dispreferred act on the second pair part. This research employed descriptive qualitative research to conduct the research because it analyzes the data based on the scholar’s theory. The theory which was applied in this study was Levinson’s theory about preference structure. In addition, this research also applied descriptive quantitative research to show the occurence of the emergence of the data in frequency. The data were collected by categorizing the utterances into every single of parameter in the data sheet. Then, those data were analyzed by applying referential analysis technique. It means that the theories played an important role because it was as a reference to analyze the data. Based on the analysis of the data, the results of the research can be stated as follows. 1 There are seven types of dispreferred act on the second pair part which is used by the main character in Beauty and the Briefcase. Those types are assesment – disagreement, blame – denial, invitation – refusal, request – refusal, offer – rejection, question – unexepected answer, and proposal – disagreement. 2 There are 12 ways of doing dispreferred act on the second pair part which were applied by the main character in Beauty and the Briefcase. They are prefacing, delaying, ignoring and changing the topic, using a mitigator, hedging the negative, making it non – personal, appealing for understanding, token yes, giving an account, mentioning obligation, saying an appology, and expressing doubt. 3 Social factors also influence the main character to do dispreferred social act on the second pair part. Those social factors are the participants, the topic of conversation, function of the speaking, and the social context of interaction. Keywords: adjacency pairs, dispreferred social act on the second pair part, Beauty and the Briefcase, Levinson’s theory