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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 28^th May 2012. They're talking about an assignment for tomorrow at Tuesday 29^th 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 6^th) at the same time of Febri’s answer “Em (backchannel)” (see 7^th).

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 8^th) and to Rika may imply that her need of time to think before uttering “It’s so difficult” (see 8^th), do the hesitation (0,2 seconds) “huh”, ”oh ye” (see 8^th).  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 1^st and 2^nd), while Rika’s reply is also in the form of a statement but its functions is as his answer to Febri’s greeting.

See 3^rd “Good night?” is as greeting and see 4^th “good night too” as answer of greeting.

See 7^th “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 9^th is as mocking to Rika and see 10^th is as rejection to Febri’s question.  

See 12^th and 13^th are function response to another person who was called Febri and 13^th is an agreeing to Rika that Febri would see her again tomorrow at Tuesday 29^th May 2012.

See 15^th, 16^th, 17^th 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 6^th contains of answer and insertion of question “and You?”. See 7^th is insertion of question “But, how about your assignment for today?”. See 9^th is insertion of question to “As munchkin you know?”. See 11^th and 12^th 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 (3^rd, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 9^th, 11^th, 12^th, 13^th, 15^th ) 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 2^nd, 7^th, 9^th, 10^th, 14^th, 17^th) way of taking part in conversation, in this conversation uses a lot of interruption.

e.       Backchannels is vocal indications of attention.

 “Em” (see 7^th) it means brooding, the speaker’s condition is sullen and “Um” (see 8^th) it means Rika thinks before judging the utterance “it’s so difficult”. See 8^th “Huh, Oh ye, Hoh” it means griming.

See 11^th “Uh” it means annoying. See 13^th “Em” it means correct of the mistake. See 14^th and 15^th “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 16^th) “bye”. In the following excerpt it can be seen that “bye” (see 17^th) serves as both a topic closing and as a declaration of intent to closing conversation.

g.      Overlapping (see 2^nd, 7^th, 9^th, 10^th, 14^th, 17^th) which is revealed speaker’s type, that is active or passive.

h.      Bracket, the function to enclose non verbal language. See 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 11^th, 12^th, 16^th, 17^th.

i.        Lengthening is as style in conversation, it can be shown by the length vocal. The example in 1^st, 2^nd, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 13^th, 16^th, 17^th.

j.        Short hesitation, the function to get attention to other speaker. In 8^th, and 13^th.

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)