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interruptions. This result was contradicted from the assumption that interruption was only used as a way to dominate.
The second research was conducted by Chera Kurnia Larasati 2014 in her thesis entitled A Conversational Analysis of Interruptions in Modern Family Season 1
Series. The aims of the research were to identify and to describe the types and the functions of interruption in Modern Family season 1. The method of the research was
descriptive qualitative by using conversational analysis as the approach of the analysis. The result presented that four types of interruption were found in
conversations. Those types were simple interruption, overlap, butting-in interruption and silent interruption. In addition, the highest frequency was found in the use of
simple interruption, where the lowest occurrence found in the use of butting-in interruption. Besides, this research also studied the three functions of interruption.
Those were cooperative, intrusive and neutral. Disagreement as the subtopic of cooperative was found as the most dominant function used among the characters.
Meanwhile, clarification as the subtopic of cooperative was used less in the conversations.
Although interruption becomes the main interest of both previous research, this issue is broad and this research analyzes interruption from different perspective
from them both. While Youxing’s research focused on analyzing the differences and
similarities between men’s and women’s speech particulary in interruption in mixed- sex conversations, this research focuses on analyzing the types and functions of
interruption in mixed-sex conversations.
Then , Chera’s research used different approach from this research. Chera used
conversational analysis since it analyzed the phenomena within daily conversation where interruption is one of them. In contrast, this research uses Sociolinguistics
which focuses on language phenomena in society and interruption is one of the phenomon which occurs
in men’s and women’s conversation particularly in mixed- sex conversations. Furthermore, Gossip Girl TV series is used as the object of
analysis which is not used by those two previous research. Therefore, by using different objects, approaches, and sources, some research with the same interest, may
show different findings.