An Analysis of Casual Conversations among Female Students in Faculty of Language and Arts batch 2012

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An Analysis of Casual Conversations among Female Students in Faculty of

Language and Arts batch 2012

By :

Caroline Liesa Rahardjo

Student Number : 12.80.0019

FACULY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS

SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

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LAMPIRAN: KEPUTUSAN REKTOR UNIVERSITAS KATHOLIK

SOEGIJAPRANATA

Nomor : 0047 / SK. Rek / X / 2013

Tanggal: 07 Oktober 2013

Tentang: PERNYATAAN KEASLIAN SKRIPSI/TUGAS AKHIR DAN THESIS

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Semarang, 19 Maret 2018

Caroline Liesa Rahardjo

12.80.0019

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An Analysis of Casual Conversations among Female Students in Faculty of

Language and Arts batch 2012

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An Analysis of Casual Conversations among Female Students in Faculty of

Language and Arts batch 2012

A Thesis Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana

Sastra Degree in the English Department

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First of all, I would like to praise my Jesus Christ who always strengthens me every day. Thanks for blessing and reminding me to always be grateful for what You gave me. His Holy Mother, Mother Mary, has given me patience, so that I can finish this thesis well.

I would like to give my big thanks and love to my beloved family, Papa Budi, Mama Susi, Dionisus, and Johnson who always pray for me and support me in every aspect that I do, including finishing my thesis.

Furthermore, I would like to express my gratitude to my major sponsor, Mr. Antonius Suratno and my co-major, Mrs. Emilia Ninik who have sincerely and patiently guided me, who were willing to take the time out of their busy schedules to check and correct my thesis so I could finish it. I’d like to thank my lecturers in Faculty of Language and Arts, Mrs. Ike as the Dean of Faculty of Language and Arts, Mrs. Cecilia as my guardian lecturer since 2012. I wanted to say thank you for your love, patience, and information during my study in FLA. Moreover, for all of the lecturers in Faculty of Language and Arts in Soegijapranata University, thank you for becoming my second family who has taught and given me valuable knowledge during my study. Also, I gave thanks to Bu Retno and Mas Agus who had helped me to complete all the administration things.

Next, I would like to say thank you to my love boyfriend Koko Edwin, thanks for always company and support me until now and still counting. For my beastie Wilona kaulika, Ferlina Budi Santoso, Dian Herdiana, Junia Laksmana, Sydney Kim Avrianda, thanks for your sharing and to be my truly beasties that made my college years so awesome. I will not forget these hilarious memories .

Last, I would like to thank to people that I could not mention one by one; those who had helped me and contributed in this thesis, thank you for your supports, cares, loves, and prayers.

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1.4 Problem Formulation ... 2

1.5 Objectives Of The Study ... 2

2.2.2. Turn-constrictuctional (TCU) ... 7

2.2.3. Turn-Allocation ... 7

2.3. Turn-Taking ... 7

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2.4.1. Terminal Overlap ... 9

2.4.2. Continues Overlap ... 10

2.4.3. Conditional access to the turn... 11

CHAPTER 3 ... 13

DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION ... 18

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vii ABSTRACT

Normal conversations do not usually flow like dialogue in a scripted performance where each person gets to complete his/her line before the next person takes his/her turn. Speakers naturally overlap each other. Even though interruptions are a natural phenomenon of speech, they can create a power struggle. The situation when interruptions happen is called overlapping. In this study, the author examined overlaps to determine when overlaps occur, and what kind of overlaps often used by the participants. The study involved female students of 2012 batch in the Faculty of Language and Arts as participants. There were 12 conversations taken by the author as materials for this study. In every conversation there were 3 to 7 students participating in the conversation. There are 3 types of overlaps used as the basis of this research: Terminal Overlap, Continuers, and Conditional Access to the Turn. The author, then, categorized the overlaps found into one of the three types above. After that, the author found how often the participants apply overlapping for each type. The results of the study show that the participants often used Terminal Overlap in their existed conversation. The Terminal Overlap more often happened in a conversation when a number of participants wanted to express what they wanted to express. The Terminal Overlap happened over and over again during the conversation.

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ABSTRAK

Percakapan yang normal tidak akan berjalan seperti dialog yang telah terencana. Dalam percakapan yang terencana, setiap orang dapat menyelesaikan kalimatnya sebelum orang lain berbicara. Secara alamiah, orang cenderung berbicara tumpang tindih. Meskipun interupsi adalah fenomena alamiah dari suatu pembicaraan, interupsi dapat menciptakan perebutan kekuatan. Situasi ketika interupsi terjadi disebut overlap. Dalam studi ini, peneliti mempelajari kapan overlap terjadi, dan overlap apa yang sering digunakan oleh partisipan. Studi ini melibatkan mahasiswi angkatan 2012 di Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni. Ada 12 percakapan yang digunakan oleh peneliti sebagai materi penelitian. Dalam setiap percakapan, ada 3 sampai 7 mahasiswi. Ada 3 tipe overlap yang digunakan sebagai dasar penelitian ini: Terminal Overlap, Continuers, and Conditional Access to the Turn. Peneliti kemudian mengelompokan overlap yang ditemukan di data ke dalam satu dari tiga tipe

overlap. Setelah itu, peneliti mencari tahu seberapa sering masing-masing tipe overlap itu dilakukan oleh partisipan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa partisipan sering menggunakan Terminal Overlap dalam percakapan mereka. Terminal Overlap sering digunakan dalam suatu percakapan ketikan beberapa partisipan ingin mengungkapkan hal yang mereka ingin ungkapkan. Terminal Overlap terjadi berulang kali selama percakapan.