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Agreeing and disagreeing by the major characters of 'Saved!' to the assessments given by the other characters

In communication, people have their right to talk and give opinion of
things and people. This opinion is called an Assessment, which is given by the
first-pair part and always has a response. The response to this Assessment may be
agreement or disagreement. There are some types of Agreeing and Disagreeing to
Assessments in the second-pair part. This study is conducted to find Agreement
and Disagreement types to these Assessments. The main theory used is Agreeing
and Disagreeing to Assessments by Pomerantz (1984), who identified that there
are three types of Agreeing to Assessments and three types of Disagreeing to
Assessments. The writer also uses theories of Conversation Analysis and
Adjacency pair by Yule (1996). This research uses qualitative approach. To
collect the data, the writer obtains the conversations between major characters and
other characters. Finally, the writer finds that the kind of Assessments occurs the
most is Criticism as the negative evaluation directed to the addressee. The most
frequent type of Agreeing and Disagreeing that respond to Assessments is Strong
Disagreement. Furthermore, the writer discovers that the Criticism as the
Assessment is often followed by Strong Disagreement as the response. On the
other hand, the positive evaluation uttered by the first- pair part often gets
Agreement. In conclusion, to know how to give opinion and how to respond the
assessments by agreeing or disagreeing is necessary. So, people can maintain
communication by giving opinion and responding it.