Abstract:
This study deals with speech disfluency in the dialogue in America Lawyer Show. It was aimed at
investigating types of speech disfluency and the most dominant types of speech disfluency in the
dialogue in America Lawyer Show. This study was conducted by using qualitative descriptive
research. The source of data was conversation between host and participant season 14 episode 378
about flint water crisis. Data were analyzed utterances by utterances which contained types of speech
disfluency and the dominant of speech disfluency in the dialogue in America Lawyer Show. The
result showed that there were 41 data found in America Lawyer show. Specifically 14 (34.15%) for
Silent Pause, 19 (46.34%) for repeat, 1 (2.44%) for Retraced False Start, and 7 (17.07%) for
correction. And the most dominant types of speech disfluency found in America Lawyer show was
repeat amount of 19 (46.34%). It means that in this speech, as majority many people always repeat
their speech so that it can continue what they want to say. when someone speak and confused to
deliver words, so one way to make other person understand to us was repeat what we said just now
while we think something in our mind.
