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Adjacency pairs

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Dauletbaeva Gulruxsor

Adjacency pairs

• • There is a relation between acts , and that conversation contains frequently occurring patterns . • The utterance of one speaker makes a certain response of the next speaker .
• • The acts categorized as question-answer , offer-accept , blame-deny and so on.
• • The first part creating an expectation of a particular second part.
• • Preference structure
• • Each first part has a preferred response .
• • The pairs are endless .

Examples:

• A question- has the preferred response of an answer
• An offer- an acceptance
• An invitation- an acceptance
• An assessment- an agreement
• A proposal- an agreement
• A greeting- a greeting
• A complaint- an apology

The dispreferred

• The dispreferred responses tend to be refusals and disagreement ,This are the unusual response, meaningful or rude.

Example

• Brenda : Hi Lee.
• Lee : Hi , Jean
• Jean : Hi. Hi
• Brenda : How are you ?
• Lee : Not bad I’ll be in , in a minute

Presequences Example

• A: You know that French film that’s on in the Odeon?
• B: Yes ?
• A: Do you want to go and see it tonight ?
• B: Yeah , why not .
• Here the speaker prepares the ground for further sequence and signal the type of utterance to follow.

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