Analyzing Preferred/ Dispreferred Responses in Four Actio...
Putri, Noerhayati Ika
This study describes an analysis of 11 ESL/EFL textbooks used in Indonesia and broader Southeast Asian countries. The focus of the analysis is on a particular organization of talk-preferred and dispreferred responses- in four action sequences, invitations, offers, requests and apologies. Preferred and dispreferred responses involve turn-taking (distribution of talk across two participants) in adjacency pairs (Levinson, 1983). This study invest...