DA
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 thepractice of
Drama at 20:18 pm when the atmosphere is noisy at
Wednesday 28thMay 2012. They're talking about an
assignment for tomorrow at Tuesday 29th May2012.
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 ofactive 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 29thMay
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 byoverlapping (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)