DA 4 (CONVERSATION ANALYSIS)

Group             : 1. Isnaini Muslimah (A.3200 90 072) / B

   2. Puji Lestari (A.3200 90 074) / B

DISCOURSE ASSIGNMENT 4

Conversation Analysis

1.      Character and Characterization

            From this conversation, Puji is speaker 1 (O1) that she is a type of active person because she takes the floor. She is also a type of tolerant person because she will lend her book to Isna. Without long thinking, she gives her book to Isna when Isna wait her friend (Ningrum) whereas formerly Isna will borrow the book to Ningrum, but Ningrum can’t be called and she has been waited her at long time.

            While Isna is a type of panic and confuse person because she is so confuse when Ningrum is long to wait and she also can’t be called. She is also a type of person who likes to hasty as while she gets a message from her friends to go back to her boarding house.    

2.      Aspect of Conversation

a.       Turn taking which is the change of speaker during conversation. The first utterance gets response from the second speaker when Puji’s is greeting to Isna who is waiting Ningrum in the park of campus (1^st and 2^nd conversation). The 3^rd is about a question that be given by Puji to Isna because she seems alone and confuse in the campus park. And the response from Isna is the 4^th utterance, she asked “mmmm” means she thinks before answer Puji’s question. There are some mistakes in Isna’s pronunciations such as “maybe” and “message”. As must as she asked [meIbi] but she asked [maibi] and [‘mesid_З] but [missej]. And also there is mistake the word that be spoken by Isna which as must as “soon” but she asked “now”. From the 22^nd until 25^th are closing of the conversation among them.

b.      Uppercase that gives emphasize of utterance. Such as ningRUM, Now, sEmantic, OK, welCOME, yA, gUYs.

c.       Backchannels is vocal indications of attention, “mmmm” (see 4^th) means thinks to answer, “mmmm” (see 10^th, 15^th) means thinking again, “ohhh” (see 11^th, 13^th) means understanding of the utterance meaning from Isna.

d.      Adjacency pair is a sequence of two utterances by different speakers in conversation. Like in 19^th “OK” as answer from 18^th, “OK” in the 21^st is answer from the 20^th, and “OK” in the 23^rd is answer from 22^nd, and the last “bye” in 25^th is answer from 24^th. Besides that see 1^st is greeting, 2^nd  is response from greeting that be spoken by Puji, 3^rd  is the first question from Piji to Isna, and 4^th is answer from Isna.

e.       Insertion sequence is a two part sequence that comes between the first and the second part of another sequence in conversation. See 6^th contains of answer and insertion of question “do you know where she is?” See 13^th “why do you seek her?” there is insertion question after Puji answer the response from Isna.  

3.      Structure of Conversation

This conversation consists of question and answer. The structural of conversation can be showed as follows:

1.      Greeting

2.      Answer (response)

3.      Question

4.      Answer (response)

5.      Question

6.      Answer (response and question)

7.      Answer (information)

8.      Question

9.      Response (command)

10.  Answer (explaining)

11.  Response (give information)

12.  Response (question)

13.  Question

14.  Answer

15.  Response (lend)

16.  Response (question, doubt)

17.  Answer

18.  Response (thanks)

19.  Response

20.  Answer (response)

21.  Response (beg)

22.  Answer (thanks)

23.  Response

24.  Closing (response)

25.  Closing (response)