UNDERSTANDING ADJACENCY PAIRS: THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

This article discusses and analyzes the types of Adjacency Pairs and their preference structures in spoken discourse. The authors explained that there are several types of adjacency pairs and their preference structures discovered in teaching learning process. The first type is question – answer in which its preference structure is expected as preferred response and unexpected as unpreferred one. The second type is request – acceptance/rejection which acceptance is as preferred and rejection as unpreferred response of its preference structure. Furthermore, complaint – excuse/ remedy in which its acceptance response is known as preferred response in preference structure. Finally AP is the most important part of spoken discourse that serve building interaction in effective communication.