Syntactic Structure Investigation On Adjacency Pairs Found In The Ellen Show

Abstract

This research dealt with Adjacency Pairs in The Ellen Show. The data in this research was taken from The Ellen Show dialogue. This research aimed to find out the types of Adjacency Pairs Found in The Ellen Show. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyze the data. Thus, in doing this it, library research was applied in analyzing the data. The objectives of the research was to find out types of Adjacency Pairs and dominant type of adjacency pairs. From the data obtained, there were (40) Adjacency Pairs with thirteen types of Adjacency Pairs, all of them were found in The Ellen Show. They were question-answer 18 (45%), assertion-agreement/disagreement 15 (37,5%), apology-minimization 2 (5%), offer-acceptance 1 (2,5%), assessment-agreement 1 (2,5%), suggestionacceptance

1 (2,5%), Announcement-acknowledgement 1 (2,5%). The most dominant type of the Adjacency Pairs Found in The Ellen Show was the questionanswer that was 18 occurrences 18 (45%).