Adjacency Pairs Used in “Spending a Day with Faceless Youtuber: Corpse Husband” Interview: A Conversation Analysis

Abstract

Conversation Analysis (CA) is used to address on how daily conversation is  organized, how people coordinate in human interaction and what is the role of talk in wider social processes. (Hutchby & Wooffit, 2008, p.1). The aims of this study are to identify and analyze kinds of adjacency pairs and the most used pairs that are realized in the conversation. The researchers used descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. In collecting the data, the researchers used a 23:18 minutes long video documentation of an interview which was downloaded from YouTube platform. The framework proposed by Paltridge was used as the framework to analyze the data. The results showed that there are seven adjacency pairs used by the interviewer and the interviewee in the occurring conversation which are greeting – greeting, question – answer, question – unexpected answer, offer – acceptance, assessment – agreement, request – refusal and leave – taking. It turned out that in this research, the interviewee tends to lead the conversation meanwhile the interviewee entails the flow of the conversation. The realization of these adjacency pairs will be the primary focus of this study.