A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF TURN-TAKING IRREGULARITIES REFLECTED IN THE LAST SONG MOVIE

As long as people live together in a society, conversation serves their vital need to convey their messages which contain feeling, emotions, and intentions. A conversation is characterized by turn-taking. It means in a conversation which usually involves two or more people talking, there should be one participant speaks and the other listens. However, a conversation sometimes does not run smoothly. In this case, there might be something disturbing the process of conversation. Thus, an irregularity occurs. Irregularity in conversation happens for certain purposes. This study aims to identify and to describe types of turn-taking irregularities and types of reasons for doing turn-taking irregularities in a movie entitled The Last Song. \nThis research employed a descriptive qualitative but quantitative which means this research supported by tables contain numbers showing the frequencies of the occurrences of turn-taking irregularities and their purposes. The primary instrument in this research was the researcher herself and the secondary instrument was the data sheet. The steps of research procedure in this study were watching the movie, identifying the problems in The Last Song movie, formulating the problems, determining the objectives of the study, determining theories on context and turn-taking to analyze the data, collecting the data manually, transferring the chosen data into the data sheet, and reporting the data. To gain the validity of the research, the researcher used triangulation technique by consulting the data with her consultants. In which the data had been previously proof read by some students majoring linguistics in English Language and Literature Study Program. \nThe findings of this study reveal that there are 34 occurrences of turntaking irregularities done by characters in The Last Song movie. The occurrences cover both types of turn-taking irregularities; interruption (67.65%) and overlap (32.35%), and types of reasons for doing them; tangentialization (23.54%), disagreement (11.76%), signaling annoyance (14.71%), topic-change (8.82%), showing urgency (10.00%), floor-taking (5.88%), agreement (2.94%), assistance (2.94%), clarification (2.94%), and to correct (3.33%) .There are two occurrences of turn-taking irregularities the purpose of which is to show rejection (5.88%). In conclusion, characters tend to do turn-taking irregularities for negative purposes, including tangentialization, disagreement, and annoyance. These negative purposes usually happen in conversations in which characters are in conflict.