Speech Disfluency in the Dialogue in America Lawyer Show

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.