An Analysis of turn taking strategies used in three males' chatting - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This thesis investigates the kinds of turn taking strategies used in the three
males? chatting. The importance of turn taking strategies in chatting has motivated
the writer to conduct this study. In his study, he wants to figure out about the
highest occurrence of turn taking strategies and how the way males converse and
use turn taking strategies in chatting. The writer derives turn taking strategies
from Stenstrom?s classification, that are taking the turn including starting up,
taking over and interrupting, holding the turn containing filled pauses and verbal
fillers, silent pauses, repetition and new start, and yielding the turn consisting of
prompting, appealing and giving up. The subject of this study is three males of
English Department students including the writer himself and his close friends.
This thesis uses qualitative descriptive approach because the writer attempts to
calculate and describe the data which he gets from the chatting. To collect the
data, the writer records the chatting between the subjects of research in his house
to have the chatting as natural as possible. Through the analysis, the writer finds
out that the three males? chatting used all kinds of turn taking strategies classified
by Stenstrom. Moreover, taking the turn was the highest occurrence in the
chatting. Hence, the participants produce the turn taking strategies by giving
signals.

Contributor
• (94-029) Aylanda Hidayati Dwi Nugroho
• (01-052) Yuli Christiana Yoedo

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

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 1217/ING/2004; Hongky (11499117)
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