A CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF INTERRUPTION IN HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL MOVIE SERIES

Amalia, Shofia (2016) A CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF INTERRUPTION IN HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL MOVIE SERIES. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This research deals with a conversation analysis of interruption reflected in High School Musical movie series. It is concerned with attaining two goals, i.e. (1) to identify the types of interruption and (2) to scrutinize the functions of interruption practiced by the characters in the movie series. This research applied a mixed-method approach in which a qualitative method was primarily employed to describe the phenomenon under research in a textual form and a quantitative method was additionally used in the data analysis to quantify the data obtained from the qualitative investigation. As the sources of the data, the researcher employed the videos and the transcripts of the movie series. Aside from the researcher as the main instrument of the research, some secondary instruments were also utilized in the research, viz, a data sheet, a movie player and the movie transcripts. The data were collected through note-taking technique, that is, by taking notes of the occurrences of interruption while watching the movie series and reading the transcripts of the dialogues. Meanwhile, the data analysis was achieved by conducting a textual analysis through describing and interpreting verbal texts called interruptions spoken by the characters in the movie series. In addition, triangulations via theories and investigators were undertaken to achieve the trustworthiness of the research findings and interpretations. As the results of the investigation, the following findings are gained. First, there are four types of interruption found in the movie series. The four types comprise simple, overlap, butting-in, and silent interruption. Based on the data statistics, simple interruption gets the highest number of occurrence with 41 data out of a total of 56 data. Additionally, the lowest number of occurrence is possessed by both butting-in and silent interruption with three data respectively. These results indicate that the characters in the movie series tend to abandon their utterances once they are interrupted and then give the floor to the interrupters. Second, three functional categories of interruption are identified in the movie series, i.e. intrusive, cooperative and neutral. Functions of the intrusive category include disagreement, rejection, floor-taking, topic-change, and tangentialization. In addition, there are four functions of interruption belonging to the cooperative category, viz, agreement, assistance, clarification, and collaborative completion. Meanwhile, the neutral category has no subcategory of function. According to the frequency of occurrence, the findings show that floor-taking ranks first with 14 cases out of 56 cases of interruption in total, while assistance, by contrast, occupies the last rank with only one case. Based on the findings, it can be implied that the characters in the movie series are apt to share their own ideas by taking each other’s floor and are less likely to assist each other when they experience problems of speaking. Keywords: conversation analysis, interruption, High School Musical movie series

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords: conversation analysis, interruption, High School Musical movie series
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2016 07:13
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2019 10:04
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/37873

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