Conversation Analysis of Interruption Found in The Indonesia Lawyers Club

Abstract

This thesis entitled “Conversation Analysis of Interruption Found in the Indonesia Lawyers Club” is a study about types of interruption and functions of interruption in a television talk show named Indonesia Lawyers Club. There are eleven participants in the talk show, including the President of Indonesia Lawyers Club. This study aims (1) to identify the types of interruption found in the Indonesia Lawyers Club, (2) to find out the functions of interruption found in the Indonesia Lawyers Club. In conducting this study, the researcher employed a descriptive qualitative method since the data of this study are in the forms of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. The results of this study found that there are four types of interruption found in the talk show. They are simple interruption (SI), overlap interruption (OI), Butting-in interruption (BI) and silent interruption (SLI). SI is the most dominant types of interruption found in the data. There are 20 occurrences of SI (51.28%), 9 occurrences of OI (23.08%), 6 occurrences of BI (15.38%) and 4 occurrences of SLI (10.26%). The results of this study also found that there are six functions of interruption employed in the talk show. They are agreement (AGR), clarification (CLA), assistance (ASS), disagreement (DIS), floor taking (FT), and tangentialization (TAN). Disagreement is the most dominant function of interruption found in the data. There are 21 occurrences of disagreement (53.85%), 11 occurrences of clarification (28.21%), 3 occurrences of floor taking (7.69%), 2 occurrences of agreement (5.13%) and 1 occurrence of assistance and tangentialization (2.56%).

Skripsi yang berjudul “Conversation Analysis of Interruption Found in the Indonesia Lawyers Club” ini adalah sebuah kajian tentang jenis-jenis interupsi dan fungsi-fungsi interupsi di dalam sebuah program bincang-bincang televisi yang bernama Indonesia Lawyers Club. Ada sebelas partisipan dalam acara bincang-bincang tersebut, termasuk Presiden Lawyers Club itu sendiri. Kajian ini bertujuan: (1) untuk mengidentifikasi jenis-jenis interupsi yang ditemukan di dalam acara Indonesia Lawyers Club, (2) untuk menemukan fungsi-fungsi interupsi yang ditemukan di dalam acara Indonesia Lawyers Club. Dalam mengerjakan kajian ini, peneliti menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif karena seluruh data yang digunakan berupa kata, frasa, klausa dan kalimat. Hasil kajian ini menemukan bahwa terdapat empat jenis interupsi yang ditemukan di dalam acara bincang-bincang tersebut, yaitu simple interruption (SI), overlap interruption (OI), Butting-in interruption (BI) dan silent interruption (SLI). SI adalah jenis interupsi yang paling mendominasi yang ditemukan di dalam data. SI terjadi sebanyak 20 kali (51.28%), OI terjadi sebanyak 9 kali (23.08%), BI terjadi sebanyak 6 kali (15.38%) dan SLI terjadi sebanyak 4 kali (10.26%). Hasil kajian ini juga menemukan bahwa terdapat enam fungsi interupsi yang terdapat di dalam acara bincang-bincang tersebut, yaitu agreement (AGR), clarification (CLA), assistance (ASS), disagreement (DIS), floor taking (FT), and tangentialization. DIS adalah fungsi interupsi yang paling dominan yang ditemukan di dalam data. DIS terjadi sebanyak 21 kali (53.85%), CLA terjadi sebanyak 11 kali (28.21%), FT terjadi sebanyak 3 kali (7.69%), AGR terjadi sebanyak 2 kali (5.13%),dan TAN terjadi sebanyak 1 kali (2.56%).