Analysis of Adjacency Pairs of Cristiano’s Interview

Conversation is a vital tool in communication for communicating meaningful pieces of interactions. Adjacency pairs are often seen as fundamental units conversational organization. The form and purpose specific pair component, well the context beside stage conversation, all play essential roles determining meaning function an utterance. Each has special intended meaning, which cannot be fully understood without relying on at adjacency appear. present study tends to focus within sports interviews with aim studying these pragmatically since defining underlying expectations regularities founded difficult. also aims examining included exchanges between TV interviewers footballers, finding out communicative purposes behind usage that player wishes transmit when being interviewed. method used analysis mixed one (quantitative qualitative) analyze latest interview player. qualitative examines content utterances descriptively quantitative relies table, under interview, shows rates types pairs. So, selected analyzed terms number, types, frequency distribution adopted model eclectic composes Cook's (1989) Pairs, Van Dijk's (2006) Context Grice's (1975) Cooperative Principles.