Conversational Style in Brownies (Obrolan Manis) Talk Show

Abstract

This study deals with the analysis of Conversational style in Brownies (Obrolan Manis) Talk show. The aim of this study were to find out the types of conversational style used by two host and to figure out the realization of conversational style used by Ivan Gunawan and Ruben Onsu. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative analysis. The data were obtained from the utterance of Ivan Gunawan and Ruben Onsu in Brownies (Obrolan Manis) Talk show. There were 120 data which consist 61 utterances of Ivan Gunawan and 59 utterances of Ruben Onsu. The data collected were analyzed based on Miles and Huberman analysis model including data reduction, data display, drawing and verifying conclusion.The research finding showed thatthere were two types of conversational style that found in Brownies (Obrolan Manis) talk show.there were high involvement style and high considerateness style. conversational style classified based on the used of turn taking that devide into pause,overlap and backchannel. turn taking of Ivan Gunawan used 16 times pause, 40 overlap and 5 backchannel and Turn taking of Ruben Onsu used 31 times pause, 19 overlaps and 9 backchannel.So, it was concluded that Ivan Gunawan used high involvement style, it can be seen Ivan more often did Overlap. And Ruben Onsu used high considerateness style, it can be seen Ruben more often did pause. conversational style used by Ivan Gunawan and Ruben Onsu were realized by turn taking. In all segment Ivan Gunawan and Ruben Onsu used pause, overlap and backchannel