The Use of interuptions by male and female students in informal organizational meetings - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

Based on the idea about the different stereotype between male and
female in relation with people tendency to interrupt, the writer is interested in
analyzing their tendency especially in the discussion in informal meeting.
Moreover, in all speech communities, male and female speak differently.
These differences encouraged the writer to analyze and reveal the similarities
and differences between discourse markers used by male and female students
for interrupting in terms of the types and frequencies. In doing this research,
the writer used some theories from Wardhaugh?s theory (1985;1998),
Tannen?s theory (1994;1998), and also Stenstorm?s theory (1994). In addition,
the writer also used Schiffrin?s theory (1987;1999) as the guideline to analyze
discourse markers. The data for this research were obtained by recording the
conversation and later identified and classified based on the type of discourse
markers used. Finally, the findings showed that markers Ya"/ "Iya"/
"Yah"/ "Heeh"/ "OK"/ "itu", which were known as markers of
response were the most popular type of markers for interruption used both by
male and female students. However, there are some differences that the female
students rarely used "Oh"/ "Eh" / "Hmm", which were known as markers
of information management to interrupt while the males were more likely to
use them. Moreover, female students were likely to use markers
"Nah"/"gini"/"ini"/"Sekarang" which were known as markers of temporal
adverbs. Thus, it can be concluded that the males tended to behave
competitively while the females tended to behave cooperatively. Finally, it
implied that the existence of discourse markers is really important for the
interrupter in order to open and hold the turn.

Contributor
• (84-001) Nani Indrajani Tjitrakusuma
• (76-012) Josefa Juniarti Mardijono

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011712/ING/2007; Laura Novia (11403031)
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