Adjacency pairs in the conversations in the film call me by your name by luca guadagnino

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY LÊ THỊ TRINH NỮ ADJACENCY PAIRS IN THE CONVERSATIONS IN THE FILM “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME” BY LUCA GUADAGNINO FIELD: English Linguistics CODE: 8.22.02.01 Supervisor: BÙI THỊ ĐÀO, Ph.D BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN LÊ THỊ TRINH NỮ CẶP KẾ CẬN TRONG NHỮNG ĐOẠN HỘI THOẠI TRONG PHIM “GỌI EM BẰNG TÊN ANH” CỦA LUCA GUADAGNINO Chuyên ngành: Ngôn Ngữ Anh Mã số: 8.22.02.01 Người hướng dẫn: TS Bùi Thị Đào I STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I certify my authorship of the master thesis submitted entitled “Adjacency pairs in the conversations in the film “Call me by your name” by Luca Guadagnino” is the result of my own research I hereby declare that the work is submitted in partial fulfillment of the master’s degree requirements Any use of the works of any other author, in any form, is accurately accepted at their point of use Binh Dinh, 2020 Signature Le Thi Trinh Nu II ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first and foremost like to thank my supervisor, Dr Bui Thi Dao for providing me support, guideline, and feedback when I carried out my thesis Without her encouragement, guidance, and comments, the thesis would have never been finished I would also like to extend my thankfulness to all the teachers in the Foreign Language Department at Quy Nhon University who gave me essential help as well as the most useful advice during the process of doing this thesis Finally, my warmest thanks are sincerely sent to my family, my best friends and so many others who always offered spiritual support and encouragement when I had difficulty Without their help, this work could not have achieved the current status of the thesis III ABSTRACT This is a study of adjacency pairs and verbal strategies for doing dispreferred second parts in the conversations extracted from the film The study aims to examine the types of adjacency pairs and verbal strategies for doing the dispreferred structure in the conversations investigated Descriptive is considered as the main method in combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in this study Besides, contrastive, analytic, and synthetic methods are also used to help to work out the best possible findings The data include a total of 250 adjacency pairs comprising 4327 words in 85 conversations The results show that there are 16 types of adjacency pairs proposed by Yule (1996), Schegloff (2007) and Rymes (2008) found in the film Among them, the most dominant type making up 38.4% is Question-Answer while the smallest ones are Offer-Decline and Thanking-Response comprising 0.4% Besides, in 11 verbal strategies for doing a dispreferred second part suggested by Yule (1996), there are verbal strategies found in the film The biggest verbal strategy is expressing doubt with 10 cases accounting for 27.03% while the least ones are using preface, using token Yes, making it non-personal, using mitigators and hedging the negative with occurrences (5.41%) of the total occurrences IV TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I ACKNOWLEDGMENTS II ABSTRACT III TABLE OF CONTENTS IV ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS VIII LIST OF TABLES IX CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 RATIONALE 1.2 AIM & OBJECTIVES 1.2.1 Aim 1.2.2 Objectives 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.6 STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 PREVIOUS STUDIES 2.2 THEORY OF ADJACENCY PAIRS 2.2.1 Definition of adjacency pairs 2.2.2 Types of Adjacency pairs V 2.2.3 Adjacency pairs and preference structure 16 2.2.4 Verbal strategies for doing dispreferred second parts 18 2.3 THE FILM “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME” 20 2.4 SUMMARY 22 CHAPTER RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 23 3.1 RESEARCH METHODS 23 3.2 RESEARCH PROCEDURES 23 3.3 DATA SOURCES AND SAMPLES 24 3.4 DATA ANALYSIS 25 3.5 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY 27 3.6 SUMMARY 28 CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 29 4.1 TYPES OF ADJACENCY PAIRS 29 4.1.1 Greeting-Greeting 30 4.1.2 Question-Answer 31 4.1.3 Summons-Acknowledgement 34 4.1.4 Assessment-Agreement 36 4.1.5 Assessment-Disagreement 37 4.1.6 Invitation-Acceptance 38 4.1.7 Invitation-Refusal 40 4.1.8 Offer-Acceptance 41 4.1.9 Offer-Decline 41 4.1.10 Proposal-Agreement 42 VI 4.1.11 Proposal-Disagreement 42 4.1.12 Request-Acceptance 43 4.1.13 Request-Refusal 45 4.1.14 Thanking-Response 46 4.1.15 Apology-Acceptance 47 4.1.16 Announcement-Acknowledgement 47 4.2 VERBAL STRATEGIES FOR DOING DISPREFERRED SECOND PARTS 48 4.2.1 Delaying/ hesitating 50 4.2.2 Using preface 50 4.2.3 Expressing doubt 50 4.2.4 Using Token Yes 52 4.2.5 Mentioning obligation 53 4.2.6 Making it non-personal 53 4.2.7 Giving an account 53 4.2.8 Using mitigators 54 4.2.9 Hedging the negative 55 4.3 SUMMARY 57 CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS 60 5.1 CONCLUSION 60 5.2 IMPLICATIONS 61 5.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 61 5.4 SUGGESTIONS OF FURTHER RESEARCH 62 VII REFERENCES 63 ENGLISH 63 VIETNAMESE 66 ELECTRONIC SOURCE 67 APPENDIX RESEARCH SAMPLES i VIII ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS [An-A] Announcement-Acknowledgement [Ap-A] Apology-Acceptance [A-A] Assessment-Agreement [A-D] Assessment-Disagreement [G-G] Greeting-Greeting [I-A] Invitation-Acceptance [I-R] Invitation-Refusal [O-A] Offer-Acceptance [O-D] Offer-Decline [P-A] Proposal-Agreement [P-D] Proposal-Disagreement [Q-A] Question-Answer [R-A] Request-Acceptance [R-R] Request-Refusal [S-A] Summons-Acknowledgemnet [T-R] Thanking-Response {DisP} Dispreferred second part Italic Used for terms and direct quotations (( )) Used to specify “some phenomenon that the transcriber does not want to wrestle with” or some non-vocal action, etc [1], [2], [3] … Numbers of samples in the Appendix (2.1), (3.1), (4.1) … Numbers of examples in the main text xviii Elio: Yeah [134] Oliver: How come you never wear it? [Q-A] Elio: My mother says we are Jews of discretion [135] Elio: Fuck, you'll kill me if you that [A-D] Oliver: I hope not {DisP} CONVERSATION 50 [136] Marzia: Hey, are you leaving? Where's Elio? [Q-A] Oliver: He's inside He had a bit of a nosebleed during lunch, and he's just resting [137] Marzia: Really? [Q-A] Oliver: Yeah CONVERSATION 51 [138] Chiara: Are we going out? [P-D] Elio: I don't know if I can go out If my mom sees, she'll worry {DisP} [139] Chiara: She will? [Q-A] Elio: Yeah, she's a pain [140] Elio: Where's Oliver? [Q-A] Chiara: Don't ask me CONVERSATION 52 [141] Elio: Where's Oliver? [Q-A] Annella: Didn't he go out? xix [142] Mafalda: Would you like a smoothie? [I-R] Annella: No, thank you We're having dinner soon {DisP} [143] Elio: I'm going out tonight [An-A] Mafalda: Don't make me worry [144] (Mafalda): This is no good, madam [A-D] Annella: Let him his own thing {DisP} [145] (Annella): You like him, don't you? Oliver? [A-D] Elio: Everyone likes Oliver {DisP} [146] Elio: Is that your impression? [Q-A] Annella: No, he told me [147] Elio: When did he say that? [Q-A] Annella: A while ago [148] Elio: Mafalda, you know where Oliver is? [S-A] Mafalda: I have no idea CONVERSATION 53 [149] Elio: Hey [G-G] Marzia: Hi! xx [150] Elio: It's me Is that Marzia? [Q-A] Marzia: Sure it is! Can't you tell? [151] Elio: Do you really read a lot? [Q-A] Marzia: I love reading too, but I don't tell anyone [152] Elio: Why not? [Q-A] Marzia: I don't know I think people who read are kind of secretive They hide who they really are [153] Elio: Do you hide who you really are? [Q-A] Marzia: No, not with you [154] Elio: Not with me? [Q-A] Marzia: Well, maybe a bit [155] Elio: What you mean? [Q-A] Marzia: You know exactly what I mean [156] Elio: Why you say that? [Q-A] Marzia: Why? Because I think you're going to hurt me, and I don't want to be hurt [157] Marzia: You're so hard Wait Kiss me Is that good? [Q-A] Elio: Yes xxi [158] Marzia: Are you lying? [Q-A] Elio: Oh, fuck, I'm sorry CONVERSATION 54 [159] Oliver: Did someone have a good night last night? [Q-A] Elio: Not really [160] Mr Perlman: Well, you must be tired, then Or were you playing poker, too? [Q-A] Elio: I don't play poker CONVERSATION 55 [161] Mr Perlman: Several hundred color slides of our boxer and the others like him arrived yesterday from Berlin We should start cataloguing them That'll keep us busy till lunch, I imagine [An-A] Oliver: Sure [162] Mr Perlman: Beautiful, aren't they? [A-A] Oliver: They're all so incredibly sensual CONVERSATION 56 [163] Annella: Don't forget, Isaac and Mounir are coming for dinner [An-A] Elio: Also known as Sonny and Cher [164] Annella: I'd like you to wear that shirt they gave you for your birthday [R-R] Elio: No {DisP} CONVERSATION 57 [165] Oliver: Hey, what time you got? [Q-A] Elio: It's 2:00 xxii CONVERSATION 58 [166] Oliver: Mafalda I won't be here for dinner [S-A] Mafalda: Okay, Mr Oliver CONVERSATION 59 [167] Marzia: Hello, Mafalda [G-G] Mafalda: Marzia CONVERSATION 60 [168] Elio: Where are we going? [Q-A] Marzia: You'll see CONVERSATION 61 [169] Mounir: How are you, buddy? [G-G] Elio: Hey! [170] Mounir: It's been ages [G-G] Elio: It has, yes [171] Elio: How are you? [G-G] Mounir: You've grown [172] Elio: How are you? [G-G] Isaac: I'm good CONVERSATION 62 [173] Elio: Want to eat with us tonight? [I-R] Marzia: No, no I have to go {DisP} xxiii [174] Elio: You're sure? [Q-A] Marzia: Okay Goodbye CONVERSATION 63 [175] Elio: This right here is the brand-new china that you guys so kindly sent to us.[A-A] Isaac: It looks wonderful [176] (Isaac): …Come here, Mounir, Mounir Come, come, come [S-A] Mounir: Yeah, yeah, yeah CONVERSATION 64 [177] Elio: It'll look like a put-up job Papa, it'll [A-A] Mr Perlman: Yes [178] Mr Perlman: No misbehaving tonight No No laughing When I tell you to play, you'll play You're too old not to accept people for who they are What's wrong with them? You call them Sonny and Cher behind their backs [R-R] Elio: That's what Mom calls them {DisP} CONVERSATION 65 [179] Annella: They're never gonna make it [A-D] Mr Perlman: No, no They're fine {DisP} CONVERSATION 66 [180] Oliver: I'm glad you came [G-G] Elio: Yeah, I'm nervous I like what you've done with the place It's nice [181] Oliver: You okay? [Q-A] Elio: Me okay xxiv [182] Oliver: Can I kiss you? [R-A] Elio: Yes, please CONVERSATION 67 [183] Oliver: What are you doing? [Q-A] Elio: Nothing [184] Oliver: Does this make you happy? You're not gonna get a nosebleed on me, are you? [Q-A] Elio: I'm not gonna get [185] Elio: Oliver [S-A] Oliver: Call me by your name, and I'll call you by mine [186] Elio: Elio [S-A] Oliver: Oliver [187] Elio: Elio [S-A] Oliver: Oliver [188] Elio: Did we make noise? [Q-A] Oliver: Nothing to worry about CONVERSATION 68 [189] Oliver: Are you gonna hold what happened last night against me? [Q-A] Elio: No CONVERSATION 69 xxv [190] Oliver: Professor, I got your note Thank you for reminding me I'm gonna go into town and pick up those typed pages today, so maybe this afternoon would be a good time to [P-D] Mr Perlman: Later We'll look them over later before you leave {DisP} CONVERSATION 70 [191] Oliver: You're not sick of me yet? [A-D] Elio: No, I just I just wanted to be with you I'll I'm gonna I'll go {DisP} [192] Oliver: Do you know how happy I am that we slept together? [A-D] Elio: I don't know {DisP} [193] Elio: Are you happy I came here? [Q-A] Oliver: I would kiss you if I could CONVERSATION 71 [194] Annella: Hello [G-G] Mafalda: Hello, ma'am [195] Mr Perlman: Cinnamon pie? [Q-A] Mafalda: Yes CONVERSATION 72 [196] Oliver: What did you do? [Q-A] Elio: Nothing [197] Oliver: No? [Q-A] xxvi Elio: Oh, I see [198] Elio: I'm sick, aren't I? [A-D] Oliver: I wish everybody was as sick as you {DisP} [199] Elio: Please don't that [R-R] Oliver: You want to see something sick? {DisP} [200] Elio: Please don't that [R-R] Oliver: You want to see something sick? {DisP} [201] Elio: Please don't this Hey Please don't it Why are you doing this to me? What are you doing? Stop You're fucking hurting me [R-R] Oliver: Then don't fight {DisP} [202] Elio: Sorry [Ap-A] Oliver: It's okay It's okay It's okay [203] Elio: I don't want you to go God, we wasted so many days Why didn't you give me a sign? [Q-A] Oliver: I did I did [204] Elio: You didn't give me a sign When? [Q-A] Oliver: You remember when we were playing volleyball and I touched you? Just to show you that I liked you? And the way you reacted made me feel like I'd molested you xxvii [205] Elio: I'm sorry I'm sorry [Ap-A] Oliver: No, it's fine I just decided I should keep my distance I don't know I come out here for hours almost every night [206] Elio: I didn't know that That's funny, I I thought that [A-A] Oliver: Yeah, I know what you thought CONVERSATION 73 [207] Marzia: You disappeared for three days [A-D] Elio: I had to work {DisP} [208] Marzia: You completely disappeared [A-D] Elio: Yeah, I don't know I just I had a lot to {DisP} [209] Marzia: Am I your girl? [Q-A] Elio: … ((Shrugging his shoulder)) CONVERSATION 74 [210] Mr Perlman: Oliver has to go to Bergamo for a few days [An-A] Annella: Oh? [211] Mr Perlman: Research at the university Then he'll fly home from Linate [An-A] Annella: But what about Elio? Maybe it could be nice for the two of them to get away for a couple of days, no? What you think? CONVERSATION 75 [212] Annella: You know you've been our favourite student? You must come back [R-R] Oliver: You sure you're not just saying that? {DisP} xxviii [213] Mr Perlman: Oh, man Please, please come back soon [R-A] Oliver: Come back? I'm just going home to pack I'm moving here [214] Oliver: Oh, well Thank you guys so much [T-R] Mr Perlman: Of course [215] Mr Perlman: Come here, come here [I-A] Oliver: It's been amazing Thank you, guys CONVERSATION 76 [216] Annella: Tell Elio to call when you get there [R-A] Oliver: … ((Silence)) [217] Annella: Come for dinner tonight Bring Marzia Bye, darling [I-A] Chiara: … ((Nodding her head)) CONVERSATION 77 [218] Elio: What? [Q-A] Oliver: Nothing [219] Elio: What? [Q-A] Oliver: Nothing CONVERSATION 78 [220] Oliver: Yes! Oliver! [S-A] Elio: Elio! Elio! xxix [221] Oliver: Oliver! [[S-A] Elio: Elio! Oh, God [222] Oliver: Oliver! [S-A] Elio: Elio! CONVERSATION 79 [223] Oliver: Wait, wait, wait [R-R] Elio: No, no, no, it's this way Come on Come on You're missing it Come on Don't stop This This {DisP} [224] Oliver: I saw them last year Richard Butler fantastic! [A-A] Girl: Really? We saw them in concert too We hitchhiked to London CONVERSATION 80 [225] Marzia: How are you? [G-G] Elio: Good CONVERSATION 81 [226] Mr Perlman: Welcome home [G-G] Elio: Thanks [227] Mr Perlman: Oliver enjoyed the trip? [Q-A] Elio: Yeah I think he did [228] Mr Perlman: You two had a nice friendship [A-A] Elio: Yeah xxx [229] Mr Perlman: You're too smart not to know how rare, how special what you two had was [A-D] Elio: Oliver was Oliver {DisP} [230] Mr Perlman: Because it was him [A-D] Elio: Because it was me {DisP} [231] Elio: Oliver may be very intelligent but [A-D] Mr Perlman: No, no, no He was more than intelligent {DisP} [232] Mr Perlman: What you two had, had everything and nothing to with intelligence He was good You're both lucky to have found each other because you, too, are good [A-D] Elio: I think he was better than I think he was better than me {DisP} [233] Mr Perlman: I'm sure he'd say the same thing about you [A-A] Elio: Yeah He'd say the same thing [234] Mr Perlman: Have I spoken out of turn? [Q-A] Elio: … ((Shaking his head)) [235] Elio: Does Mom know? [Q-A] Mr Perlman: I don't think she does CONVERSATION 82 [236] Mafalda: Have you been to the Gaverine? [Q-A] xxxi Elio: Yes [237] Mafalda: Happy Hanukkah! [G-G] Elio: To you too CONVERSATION 83 [238] Oliver: ((Causes telephone to ring at Elio’s house)) [S-A] Elio: Hello? [239] Oliver: Elio, you there? [S-A] Elio: Hi [240] Elio: How are you? [G-G] Oliver: I'm good I'm good [241] Oliver: How are you? How are your parents? [G-G] Elio: I'm good They're fine [242] Oliver: I have some news [An-A] Elio: News? What, you're getting married? I suppose [243] Oliver: I might be getting married next spring, yeah [An-A] Elio: You never said anything [244] Elio: That's wonderful news [A-D] Oliver: Do you mind? {DisP} xxxii CONVERSATION 84 [245] Annella: Oliver [S-A] Oliver: Hey, hey, hey [246] Annella: Darling, when are you coming back? [Q-A] Oliver: I wish I was [247] Oliver: Oh, no Speaking of she's, I'm calling to tell you guys I got engaged [An-A] Annella: Wonderful! Congratulations [248] Annella: Happy Hanukkah! [G-G] Oliver: Happy Hanukkah! CONVERSATION 85 [249] Elio: They know about us [A-A] Oliver: I figured [250] Elio: How? [Q-A] Oliver: Well, from the way your dad spoke to me He made me feel like I was a part of the family Almost like a son-in-law You're so lucky My father would have carted me off to a correctional facility ... the expectation of going further into the aspect of adjacency pairs, the research title ? ?Adjacency pairs in the conversations in the film ? ?Call me by your name? ?? by Luca Guadagnino? ?? is carried out... of the master thesis submitted entitled ? ?Adjacency pairs in the conversations in the film ? ?Call me by your name? ?? by Luca Guadagnino? ?? is the result of my own research I hereby declare that the. .. THE FILM ? ?CALL ME BY YOUR NAME? ?? Call Me by Your Name is a 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino Its screenplay, by James Ivory, who also coproduced, is based on the