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Conversation Analysis
Proposed by:
Febri
Astuti A 320090 185
Rieka
Sugiarti A 320090 167
SCHOOL
OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH
UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
2012
Context
Daily
conversation between Febri and Rika on Psychology campus when the practice of Drama at
20:18 pm when
the atmosphere is noisy at Wednesday 28th
May 2012. They're talking about an
assignment for tomorrow at Tuesday
29th May 2012. The speaker’s
condition tired but
still in a happy situation.
1. Febri
: Hai // Rika:::
2. Rika
: //Hai:::
3. Febri
: Good NIGHT?
4. Rika
: Good night too.
5. Febri
: Oh, How are you toDAY? Oh no-no how
are YOU? How are you?
6. Rika
: I’m fine and YO//u?
7. Febri
: //Em…((Brooding))I’m
fine thanks. But a:::How ABOut
your
assignment for:::toDAY?
8. Rika
: Um…It’s so difficult((Brooding))//RM
Ling, Micro//(0,2)huh//(0,2) oh ye
I’m
so tired. Hoh:::((Grimming))
9. Febri : //RM Ling. //Oh
//I’m
sorry
to
hear that:::((Laughing)). Yes it’s SAMe with ME. I must exercise and Try:: to//drama:::YEs
AS munchKIN you KNOW? MUNCHKIN//hihihi
10. Rika
: //drama //no-no
11. Febri
: RIK! Owo..Uh! You are so BAD friend
((Staring))! feBRI ((Screaming))
12. Febri
: hey. feBRI ((Screaming))
13. Febri
: heY. hAY Rika good go:::a-a-a:::NO-NO-NO
em...see you next
TODAY.A:::
See you next tomoRROW//TODAY yeah toDAY today today em:::
14. Rika : //uh
15. Rika
: oh YEah see YOU see YOU see You
16. Febri
: Bye//bye bye:::((Waving))
17. Rika
:
//Bye bye bye:::((Waving))
1.
Character and characterization
From the conversation it can be
inferred Febri is speaker 1 (O1) that Febri is a type of active and attentive person because Febri takes the floor
immediately after Rika says that’s about all this around conversation. Febri
always does the overlap in
conversation occurs when Rika is speaker 2 (O2) says “I’m fine and YOu?” (see 6th) at the same time of Febri’s
answer “Em (backchannel)” (see 7th).
Febri is also a type of tolerant
person because she is patient to wait the intended speaker 2 (Rika). This is
shown that Rika thinks carefully like the backchannel “Um” (see 8th) and to Rika may imply that her need of
time to think before uttering “It’s so
difficult” (see 8th), do
the hesitation (0,2 seconds) “huh”, ”oh
ye” (see 8th). This can
be inferred that Rika as O2 is a type of a passive
person because she is talk less to think before giving judgment of her
choice.
2.
Aspect of Conversation
a.
Turn
taking which is
the change of speaker during conversation.
The
second utterance is a response to the first Febri’s utterance has the form as
the greeting to Rika (see 1st and 2nd), while Rika’s
reply is also in the form of a statement but its functions is as his answer to
Febri’s greeting.
See 3rd
“Good night?” is as greeting and see
4th “good night too” as answer
of greeting.
See 7th
“Em…I’m fine thanks. but a:::how about
your assignment for...today” as a bit complain to Rika’s question that
Febri’s condition is tired.
See 8 as a bit complain to Febri’s question
that Rika’s assignment is still much. Rika’s condition is brooding.
See 9th
is as mocking to Rika and see 10th is as rejection to Febri’s
question.
See 12th
and 13th are function response to another person who was called
Febri and 13th is an agreeing to Rika that Febri would see her again
tomorrow at Tuesday 29th May 2012.
See 15th,
16th, 17th is function as closing of agreeing.
b. Insertion sequence which is a two part sequence that comes between the
first and the second parts of another sequence in conversation.
See 6th contains of
answer and insertion of question “and
You?”. See 7th is insertion of question “But, how about your assignment for today?”. See 9th is
insertion of question to “As munchkin you
know?”. See 11th and 12th are insertion of screaming
“Febri?”, it means that Febri must
continue to drama exercise as Munchkin.
c. Besides that using the uppercase aims to emphasize utterance
intended.
In order to it is important topic
such as (3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th,
11th, 12th, 13th, 15th ) NIGHT, YOu, ABOut, munsKIN, MUNSKIN, KNOW,
BAD, FeBRI, HAY, RIK, NO, TODAY, tomoRROW, YEah and RM ling is abbreviation of Research Method of Linguistics. It is
not as uppercase.
d. The participants know well the
rule of their turn in the
conversation because each speaker takes her floor
directly and high involvement style which is shown by overlapping (see 2nd, 7th,
9th, 10th, 14th, 17th) way of
taking part in conversation, in this conversation uses a lot of interruption.
e. Backchannels is vocal indications of attention.
“Em” (see 7th) it means brooding,
the speaker’s condition is sullen and “Um” (see 8th) it means Rika
thinks before judging the utterance “it’s so difficult”. See 8th
“Huh, Oh ye, Hoh” it means griming.
See 11th “Uh” it means
annoying. See 13th “Em” it means correct of the mistake. See 14th
and 15th “Uh, Oh” it means agreeing.
f. Adjacency
pair is a sequence of two utterances by
different speakers in conversation.
That conversation contains
question and answer. One of the multiple functions can be combined in one (see
16th) “bye”. In the
following excerpt it can be seen that “bye”
(see 17th) serves as both a topic closing and as a declaration of
intent to closing conversation.
g. Overlapping
(see 2nd,
7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 17th)
which is revealed speaker’s type, that is active or passive.
h. Bracket, the function to enclose non verbal language. See 7th,
8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 16th,
17th.
i.
Lengthening
is as style in conversation, it can be shown by the length vocal. The
example in 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th, 9th,
13th, 16th, 17th.
j.
Short
hesitation, the function to get attention to other speaker. In
8th, and 13th.
3.
Structural of Conversation
The conversation consists of question and answer.
The structural can be explained as follows:
1. Question (Greeting)
2. Answer
3. Question (Greeting)
4. Answer
5. Question (Greeting)
6. Answer
Question (Insertion sequence)
7. Answer (Brooding)
Question (Insertion sequence)
8. Answer (Brooding)
9. Answer (Laughing)
Question (Insertion sequence)
10. Answer (Kidding)
11. Answer (Staring)
Screaming (Insertion sequence)
12. Answer
Screaming (Insertion sequence)
13. Agreeing (Closing)
14. Agreeing (Response)
15. Answer (Closing)
16. Question (Closing)
17. Answer (Closing)