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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelConversation is used for expressing people?s opinion, which is very
important in communication. According to Mey (1983), conversation is a way of
using language socially involving of two people or more. One of the common
features in conversation is known as pre-sequences. Pre-sequence means
utterances coming before the other utterances which is in the beginning of a
conversation or certain utterances which belong to the opening sequence of a
conversation. In this study, the writer attempts to find out about what kinds of pre-sequence
types are used by children and what are the responses in their
conversation. The children observed by the writer are Red and Carrie Mae in
SUMMER STORIES by Nola Thacker through their untterances. In analyzing the
data, the writer uses Light Bown, Stephen C levinson, and Jacob L Mey theory of
pre-sequences and also first language acquisition for the theory. The writer uses a
descriptive qualitative approach to describe the types of pre-sequence and the
responses used by Red and Carrie Mae. After analyzing the data, the writer found
out that there were four types of pre-sequences occuring in Red and Carrie Mae
conversation. After describing the analysis, the findings show that the pre-sequences
type used are pre-request, pre-invitation, pre-arrangement, and pre-announcement.
The dominant type is pre-announcement. Furthermore, the main
characters have already known how to arrange better conversation by using pre-sequence
utterances. From that explanation, the writer can conclude that pre-sequences
are important in arranging conversation because pre-sequences belong
to opening sequence in delivering the message of a conversation.