An analysis of responses and conversational structure by John Gruber in The Talk Show

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Maulidya, Ladistya Awan (2019) An analysis of responses and conversational structure by John Gruber in The Talk Show. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study focuses on an analysis of responses and conversational structure by John Gruber in “The Talk Show”. There are two problems to be solved in this study, namely: (1) what are the responses used by the host and the guest in “The Talk Show” by John Gruber; (2)what are the structure conversation in “The Talk Show” by John Gruber. The objectives of this study are to find the types of response, the types of structure conversation that used by John Gruber, Phill Schiller, and Craig Faderighi. The researcher uses Stentrom’s theory to analyze the types of responses also Kong Rui and Su Ting’s theory about structure conversation. The methodology that used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data are words, sentences, and untterences of the conversation that used by host (John Gruber) and guest (Phill Schiller and Craig Faderighi). There are two results of this research, first result is 50 responses that used by the host and guest. The writer found 4 types of responses such as responding to statement, responding to question, responding to request, and responding to thanks. This talk show mostly uses responding to statement as the types of responses. The conversation between them mostly about asking and answering in form of statement. The second result is the structure conversation that used by John Gruber as the host of the talk show. The researcher finds 30 structures conversation that include in global structure and local structure.