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THE CONVERSATION ANALYSIS BETWEEN JOHN HARWOOD AND BARACK OBAMA IN CNBC’S “CLOSING BELL”

Damayanti, Ika (2014) THE CONVERSATION ANALYSIS BETWEEN JOHN HARWOOD AND BARACK OBAMA IN CNBC’S “CLOSING BELL”. Undergraduate thesis, BAHASA & ILMU BUDAYA.

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Abstract

The objectives of the study are to find out the categories of conversation discourse structure in the interview between John Harwood and Barack Obama and to identify aspects of conversation in the interview between John Harwood and Barack Obama. The data collection used the following steps: Selecting the data, Downloading the video recording of the interview between John Harwood and Barack Obama in www.CNBC.com, watching the video, transcribing and describing the significant point of every utterance using the categories of discourse structure of conversation, doing the library study to find the conceptual definitions, and analyzing the data.This study focuses on the aspects of conversation in the conversation between John Harwood and President Barack Obama in CNBC‘s program ―Closing Bell‖. The discourse structure found in conversation between John Harwood interviewer and Barack Obama consists of opening stage, middle stage, and closing stage. In the opening stage the researcher found that the interviewer opens the conversation with salutation. Furthermore, the middle stage discusses about many topics such as Obama‘s campaign. In addition, the writer found a part of conversation aspect namely adjacency pairs and it is the main form discussed in this research paper. In the closing stage, John Harwood the conversation by making one leave taking and replies by Barack Obama.There are 44 utterances analyzed where preference of organization is the greatest number found in conversation. The totals of preference organization found are 22 or 24% which John Harwood are 22 preferreds (48%) , and Barack Obama are 21 preferred (48%) and 1 dispreferred (2%). Turn taking organization, topic management and adjacency pair in the conversation are 11 or 12%. In repair is 2 or 2%, and clarification check and feedback are not found. From the explanation above, John Harwood dominated the conversation because he produced more aspect conversational than Barack Obama.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Additional Information: NIM:09.03.52.0005 SKR.III.05.01.0481
Uncontrolled Keywords: conversation, discourse analysis, pairs, pragmatic
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Depositing User: Ani Mariawati
Date Deposited: 17 Mar 2014 02:54
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2014 02:59
URI: https://eprints.unisbank.ac.id/id/eprint/1940

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