Interruption in The Ellen Show

Abstract

This research entitled “Interruption in The Ellen Show by Ellen Lee DeGeneres”. It is an attempt to find the types of interruption and the function of interruption in the talk show. The data have been taken from the utterences by participant in the talk show. The research on this thesis was cerried out on descriptive qualitative design by concertraining on utterences which contain interruption. The types of Ferguson’s categories are simple interruption, overlap interruption, butting-in interruption and silent interruption. The function of Ferguson’s are two types cooperative interruption (agreement, assistance and clarrification) and interussive interruption (disagreement, floor taking, topic change and tangentialization). The researcher found four types of interruption used by the participants in the talk show are simple interruption (15), overlap interruption (23), butting-in interruption (6), and silent interruption (4). There were 48 data of interruption found in this research, the most type which appeared (23) times by the participants is overlap interruption. Furthermore, two functions of interruption are found in this talk show are cooperative interruption consist of agreement (10), assistance (10), and clarification (12), while intrusive interruption divided into disagreement (5), floor taking (5), topic change (3), and tangentialization (3). The most function that appeared is clarification.