ADJACENCY PAIRS IN THE INTERVIEW OF TUCKER CARLSON AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN (2024): A CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS

Adjacency pairs are two-part exchanges in which the first utterance triggers a certain response from the second response from the second utterance. This research aims to 1) identify conversation patterns and 2) describe the types of responses that appear based on adjacency pairs in the interviews. The method used is descriptive qualitative, in which data is was collected from the video interview which is the Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin and then analyzed it using the adjacency pairs theory. The results of the study revealed that from a total of 34 data analyzed, the “Question-Answer/Unanswered” pattern dominates with 29 cases out of a total of 34 data or about (85%), Other patterns such as “Assessment-Agreement/Disagreement” and “Request-Acceptance/Refusal” appear less frequently, each of which is only 3 times out of a total of 34 data or about (8%). about (8%), while the patterns “Offer/Invite-Acceptance/Refusal” and “Blame-Denial/Admission” were not found at all. Meanwhile, the type of response that was obtained showed that the Preferred response was more dominant with 18 cases or (8%) response is more dominant with 18 cases or (52%) compared to Dispreferred which amounted to 15 cases or (44%).