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Adjacency Pairs. Drs. Liliek Soepriatmadji, M.Pd. Adjacency pairs. Responsive Pairs of utterances occurring in a sequence of turns first-pair part: initiation second-pair part: response Base: Exchange of meanings. Pattern in AP. Example of AP 1.
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Adjacency Pairs Drs. Liliek Soepriatmadji, M.Pd.
Adjacency pairs • Responsive Pairs of utterances occurring in a sequence of turns • first-pair part: initiation • second-pair part: response • Base: • Exchange of meanings
Example of AP 1 • A: Why don’t you come up and see me sometime? • B: I would like to. • Sentence A is an invitation. • That first pair part is responded with an acceptance in the second pair part.
Example of AP 2 • A: uh if you’d care to come and visit a little while this morning I’ll give you a cup of coffee • B: hehh well that’s awfully sweet of you I don’t think I can make it this morning hh uhm. I’m running an ad in the paper and uh I have to stay near the phone • Sentence A is an invitation of the first pair part, which is responded with a refusal in sentence B in the second pair part.