Dominant and Nonny Basa BUKU Language and Interaction
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The type and amount of interruption in the conversation of Indonesian husbands and wives
community showed that they tended to prefer these types of interruption in conversation with their wives
while Dominant Interruption is not commonly used by wives. In this example, the wife attempts a
Butting-in Interruption this is an unsuccessful Simple Interruption, which is classified as dominant
and a Cooperative Overlap Interruption which is an unsuccessful Smooth Speaker Switch, you can see
that the husband becomes easily annoyed by his wife’s attempts to express her opinion. The example
comes from the conversation of the first Muslim couple, the husband from this couple showed a
strong preference for Silent Interruption: Situ harus jelas di pergunakan untuk kepentingan
apa dan ….
I |Oh ya, tentu dong, PPIA tahu itu… S |Ya setiap organisasi begitu…
I |Jadi maksud…Dengar, tunggu dulu jika orang lagi menjelaskan dengar dulu.
I |Ya, tapi saya pikir PPIA punya prosedur seperti itu …setiap pengeluaran keuangan khan dilaporkan,
lagipula apa yang sudah kita-kita sumbangkan? Saya…
S |Ya saya tahu tapi maksudnya uang yang ada jangan hanya kumpul-kumpul dan makan tapi yang
lain yang lebih positif. An English translation would be:
H It must be made clear what it is used for and…
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| Oh yes. PPIA knew that… H |Yes, every organisation is like that.
W |So I mean… H |Listen, if someone is still explaining you have
to listen first. W |Yes, I think that PPIA has a procedure like
that… every time they spend money they report it,
and what have we already given them? I… H |I know, but I mean the money shouldn’t be used
just for informal meetings and parties, but for positive activities.
In this case, the wife interacts by interrupting her husband, showing her disagreement with opinions
she does not think are acceptable. However, the husband finally feels uncomfortable and performs a
Silent Interruption when he says: “|Listen, if someone is still explaining, you
have to listen first.” The wife still tries to confirm her opinion by
Cooperative Overlapping saying that: “|Yes, but I think PPIA has a procedure like that…” However,
she can not continue her opinion because the husband silently interrupts again when he
says: “|I know, but…”
86 | Language and Interaction:
The type and amount of interruption in the conversation of Indonesian husbands and wives
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