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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research is a study of Lex?s and Lionel?s arguments in Smallville TV
Series. In this study, the writer wants to find out the terminator of the arguments,
how the arguments are terminated, and how power, face, and relationship
influence the argument outcomes. In finding the complete and satisfying answers
to the problems of this study, she took nineteen episodes of the third season
consisting of at least one argument in each episode. She furthermore analyzed the
outcomes of arguments using Vuchinich?s termination formats (1990,p. 123),
namely Submission, Dominant Third-Party, Compromise, Stand-Off and
Withdrawal. After analyzing the data, the writer found that Lionel, as the father,
initiates to terminate the arguments more often than the son, Lex. Among the
sixteen arguments, Lex tends to use Withdrawal in terminating the arguments.
Five of the Withdrawal done by Lex show that he is more powerful than Lionel.
Lex?s willingness to use Withdrawal is caused by holding the truth about his
father?s crimes. It seems that Lex avoids using Compromise, Submission and
Stand-Off because he does not want to work together with his father in
committing the crimes. In addition, Lex always wants to do the right thing. On the
other hand, Lionel prefers to use Stand-Off because he wants to cover up his
faults, crimes and projects by changing the topic and the focus of attention to
others. The face needs that are used by the terminators are mostly Face Attacking
and Face Saving. In addition, because of the unwillingness to trust each other, the
relationship between the father and the son is damaged.