ADJACENCY PAIRS IN JOKOWI’S INTERVIEW WITH CNN HOST

Abstract

- The locution ‘interaction’ could literally apply to several disparate of quite disparate social encounters. An adjacency pairs has the automatic sequences. At all times, they include of the first part and the second part, constructed by another speakers. An expectation of the utterance of a second part of the same pair is generated the utterance of the first part. The example of conversational turn-taking is an adjacency pair. This paper was in control of qualitative descriptive approach. This paper applied the theory of adjacency pairs to Jokowi’s interview with one of CNN host, Christiane Amanpour, on his first 100 days in office after elected as the seventh president of Indonesia. This paper describes about the definition of is the most commonly occurs. is the most commonly occurs. adjacency pairs, the characteristics of adjacency pairs, types of adjacency pairs and elements of adjacency pairs in conversational analysis. There are 44 adjacency pairs on this research. It was found six combinations of common adjacency pairs. The most common occurs was Question-Answer. It was caused by this is an interview where the interviewer offer some interrogation, judgement, and opinion then the interviewee respons all of them.Keywords: Adjacency pairs, Characteristics of adjacency pairs, Conversational analysis, Elements of adjacency pairs, Types of adjacency pairs.