Repair analysis of conversation uttered by the guests and the host in The Late Late Show with James Corden

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Hikmah, Maftuhatul (2022) Repair analysis of conversation uttered by the guests and the host in The Late Late Show with James Corden. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This current research is conducted to analyze conversation repair in The Late Late Show with James Corden by employing conversation analysis approach proposed by Sack, Schegloff, and Jefferson. The analysis covers types of repair and patterns of repair completion. This talk show is chosen due to its casual and natural conversation existing in the show, so that there are a lot of repair for the conversation both of the guests and the host in the talk show. This research is descriptive-qualitative research. It means the research focuses more on words rather than number. Besides, this research uses theory to lead the analysis before collecting data. The data are taken from transcript of four episodes from two different guest stars, they are politician whose speaking style is multi-interpreted so as not to damage the atmosphere of their building institution. The data are in form of utterences which contain repair phenomena uttered by participants. The transcripts are obtained from youtube in form of rough transcript. Then, they get some editing treatment such as editing based on turn of the participants and completing with transcription convention. After the transcripts have been obtained, the researcher collects the data by underlining. With the existing data, the researcher starts to analyzing the data by employing these steps: 1) Identfying the data by doing coding process, 2) Classifying the data by putting into data sheet, 3) Discussing, and 4) Making conclusion for the finding of the research. As the results, four types of repair appear in the talk show. Self-initiated self-repair occurs 58 times. Other-initiated self-repair is found 62 times. Self- initiated other-repair gains 23 times, and other-initiated other repair only happens 8 times. Regarding to the second research question, the patterns of repair, the finding shows that there are eight patterns used by participants during the talk show. They are replacement (29 times), modification (15 times), abandonment (18 times), and reorganization (14 times). In addition, the rest of patterns are regarded as new patterns of repair completion. They are completion (25 times), repetition (14 times), exemplification (16 times), and specification (20 times).