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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about pre-sequence, utterances which are usually used before
announcing, arranging, inviting, requesting and closing something. More
specifically, this study focused on the conversations of three English Department
students with intimate and distant interlocutors. The writer would like to know
whether there was any difference in using the pre-sequence between the students
and the two kinds of interlocutors when they were having conversations. In
analyzing the data, she used Levinson?s (1983) theory of pre-sequence and its
classification. For the findings, the writer found that all types of pre-sequence, that
is, pre-announcement, pre-arrangement, pre-invitation, pre-request and pre-closing,
were used by the students and their interlocutors, the intimates and the
distants. Furthermore, pre-request was used more frequently between the
intimates. Meanwhile, pre-announcement was used more frequently by the
subjects and the distant interlocutors. Besides, the writer also found that both the
intimates and the distants used almost the same total numbers of pre-sequence.
Hence, the writer could conclude that the stereotype about intimates that tended to
use direct utterances, and distants that tended to use indirect utterances did not
really happen in this study.