Conversational interruption in Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis interview in British GQ YouTube channel

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Mutami, Fareza Kunthi (2022) Conversational interruption in Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis interview in British GQ YouTube channel. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research aims to analyze the types and functions of conversation interruptions in interviews between Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis. To examine this research, the researcher uses the theories about the type and function of Beattie (1984), Kennedy and Camden (1983), and Han Z. Li (2001). There are two formulations of the research problems: (1) What are the types of conversational interruptions used by Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis interview? (2) What are the functions of interruptions used by Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis interview?. This study used a descriptive qualitative method to explain the conversation between Jordan and Helen in the interview. The primary instrument is the researcher. To collect data, the researcher collected sayings taken from interviews by Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis. After transcribing the video, the researcher analyzed the data and got the data. The result of this study shows there are 116 data. The researcher discovered four types of interruption utilized by interview participants as a result of the research. They are a simple interruption, overlap interruption, butting-in, and silent interruption. The type that occurred is simple interruption that occurs (60) times by Jordan and Helen because they have different perspectives and one of them wants to interrupt the other and wants quickly take the floor. The function of conversational interruption is divided into two functions, they are cooperative and intrusive functions. The most frequent function that appears is clarification interruption. The clarification function appears (46) times. while it can be seen from the findings that the purpose of interruption is in a positive case because clarification function is often occurring. The clarification function is a type of cooperative function where the cooperative function is an interruption in a positive case.