Interruptions In Political Debate Focus On Gender & Power

This item is published by Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Suwandi, Alda Fitriani (2019) Interruptions In Political Debate Focus On Gender & Power. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

Text
Alda Fitriani _A73216097.pdf
Download (1MB)

Abstract

The present thesis investigates the conversational analysis focused on interruption with gender and power. This research investigates the types, functions and reasons of interruption of the presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the first until the third presidential debate and also the power tendencies appearent during interruption research.The researcher analyzed the types, functions and reasons of interruption before the power tendencies. Ferguson in Beattie (1982) classified interruption into four types, those are, simple interruption, butting-in interruption, overlap interruption and silent interruption. Besides, there two functions of interruption those are cooperative function consists of agreement, assistance and clarification (Kennedy and Camden, 1983) and intrussive function consists of disagreement, floor taking, topic change and tangentialization (Kennedy and Camden, 1983). Then, the reasons of interruption according to Wardaugh (1985) those are asking for help, breaking up, completing, seeking clarification, rejecting some points and agreement. By using descriptive-qualitative method, the researcher is able to reveal significantly the power through interruption. First, identifying, classifying, and analyzing the data analysis. Last, the researcher compares all of the types, functions, and reasons of interruption and the power tendencies between the presidential candidates.Last, the researcher compares the types of interruption that Trump has 71% for butting-in interruption type, 12% for overlap interruption type and 17% for simple interruption type whereas, Hillary has 57% for butting-in interruption type and 43% for simple interruption type. Besides, the comparison of interruption functions, Trump has 64% for disagreement, 28% for floor taking and 8% for clarification however, Hillary only has 100% for disagreement function. Last, the comparison of interruption reasons, Trump has 92% for rejecting some points and 8% for seeking clarification, while Hillary has 100% to reject the point. Finally, the researcher has counted all of the total number of interruption during the debate to compare the power tendencies. Donald Trump has 91% of interruption and Hillary Clinton has 9% of interruption. This results show that Trump is more powerful because he tends to do interruption than Hillary. Thus, the use of analyzing the interruption is important, because people may see the power tendencies through the frequencies of interruption done by the presidential candidates.