3. Technique of Data Analysis
This research uses bibliography technique to collect the data. The bibliography technique means that get the data from written sources such as
magazines, books, news, poetry or poem.
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The corpus was analyzed using data card. Each data which contain backchannel was written into cards, and
then it was grouped. The writer uses the data from conversation in talk show and turned it into transcription. Process of analysis does through three steps.
The first, using the video of Designing Babies in Insight SBS episode Tuesday, January,9 2012 at 20:30 pm. Second, using the transcription of
conversation as a primary object and using transcription symbols to make it easy. The last, the writer identifies the use of backchannel.
4. Instrument of The Study
The instrument of the research is a data card to write and categorize the backchannel types and functions from Conversation Analysis CA
approach to analyze a conversation in SBS Insight Talk show. Data card As a main instrument the writer will analyze data needed in various ways, such
as reading the transcription before, then marking the backchannel that contain in the transcription.
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Edi Subroto. 1992. Pengantar Metoda Penelitian Linguistik Struktural. Surakarta : Sebelas Maret University Press p.42
5. The Unit of Analysis
The data of analysis is the transcript of Designing Babies in SBS Insight Talk show about one hour as a primary source and video of
designing babies in SBS Insight. The unit of the data focuses on the types and functions in that transcript.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A.
Previous Research
In this section, the writer found some previous researches from articles, journals and thesis which are correlated to Backchannel. The first
research comes from Kathrin Lambertz 2011, entitled Backchannelling: The use of yeah and mm to portray engaged listenership. This research aims
to investigate the use of yeah and mm as backchannels utterances to show engaged listenership and focused on the different back-channel functions
that can be identified the location at which they occur. The data was analyzed from the Griffith Corpus of Spoken Australian English. The
conclusion is the analysis of the interactional data yielded three different functions of backchannels through the use of yeah and mm: as continuers, as
an alignment tokens and agreement tokens. However the findings of this research have contributed to the importance of the listener in a conversation.
Backchannel utterances are important, as they are one of the few indicators that shed some light on one of the central features in a conversation: the
listener.
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Different from this research, the writer does not focus only about the uses yeah and mm, the writer will observe about the other backchannels
such as yes, okay and etc.
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Kathrin Lambertz. 2011. Back ‐channelling: The use of yeah and mm to portray engaged
listenership. Griffith Working Papers in Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication 4 p.11 ‐18
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