Abstract:
This study deal with adjacency pairs in Knight and Day movie. The data in this
study was taken from Knight and Day Movie Script. The script consisted of 40
pages and all of pages were taken as the data. Descriptive qualitative method was
applied to analyzed the data. Thus, in doing this study, library research was
applied in analyzing the data. The objectives of the study are to find out types of
adjacency pairs and dominant type of adjacency pairs in the script of Knight and
Day movie. From the data obtained, there were sixtyseven (67) adjacency pairs
with thirteen types of adjacency pairs all of them that were found in the script of
Knight and Day movie. They were greeting-greeting with amount 1 (1.5%),
summons-answer with amount 2 (3%), apology-minimization with amount 4 (6%),
question-answer with amout 19 (28.3%), request-acceptance/refusal with amount
8 (11.9%), offer-acceptance/refusal with amount 2 (3%), blame-admission/denial
with amount 4 (6%), Invitation-acceptance/refusal with amount 1 (1.5%),
assessment-agreement/disagreement with amount 6 (8.9%), commandcompliance/incompliance
with amount 9 (13.4%). suggestion-acceptance/refusal
with amount 1 (1.5), Assertion-agreement/disagreement with amount 6 (8.9%),
announcement-acknowledge with amount 4 (6%). The most dominant type of the
adjacency pair in the script of Knight and Day movie by James Mangold was the
question-answer by 19 occurrences or about 28.3%
