“Impoliteness and Turn-Taking in Conversation: The Case of The Ranch”

The present study investigates impoliteness and turn-taking as presented in the first season of The Ranch, the American TV series broadcast by Netflix in 2016. More specifically, the utterances spoken by Jameson “Rooster” Bennett, one of the main characters of the show, will be taken into consideration. The hypothesis underpinning this paper is that both conflictive
language and turn(s)/floor-management affect Rooster’s personality as well as the relationship with his father and brother. The essay aims to expose the features of the above-mentioned pattern from a pragmatic perspective.