CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEW AMONG OPRAH WINFREY, BARACK OBAMA, AND MICHELLE OBAMA IN THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW

• Main Authors: , KHUSNUL KHATIMAH, , Prof. Soepomo Pudjosoedarmo
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2013
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/119781/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=59785
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

This study entitled Conversation Analysis of Interview between Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama in The Oprah Winfrey Show. There are three objectives in this study, firstly, to describe the structure of a conversation between Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama in The Oprah Winfrey Show (TOWS). Second, to describe the flouting of cooperative principle and its implicature by Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama. Third, to describe phenomena that appear in the conversation as the influence of participants� socio-cultural. The data in this study were obtained by making the transcription of utterances in conversation. To obtain a complete record of conversations, recording techniques were also used. Therefore, the data in this study consists of taped conversations and transcription of conversations that occur naturally in TOWS. By using the recording and the transcription, it will be analyzed not only in terms of conversation structure, but also other things that is the socio-cultural affect related to the utterances. It was found a few things related to the structure of conversation, implicature of maxims violations, and socio-cultural dimensions. First, opening and closing sequence were found more than one. This is a consequence of the commercial breaks during the conversation and it becomes the uniqueness of the conversation that was aired on television. Second, the overlap in conversations that involving more than two participants can be minimized by the topics. Third, the implicatures are not only found in the form of politeness and humor, but also in form of explanation, refine utterances to the interlocutors, denial and doing satire to the third party. Fourth, the conversation cannot be separated from social and cultural influences, including the view toward compliment. It was found that Americans use compliment as a means to please someone, so anyone can give it to others regardless of social status.