Question and Answer in Andrew Marr Show: Interview with David

As the second most frequent question, global adversarialness occurs 13 times. By delivering global adversarialness, Andrew Marr inserts his criticism on what the government has done before asking the questions. The question invites arguments and explanations from the interviewee. As a result, global adversarialness functions as clarification and confirmation from the interviewee. The third position is multiple questions which occur 10 times. In delivering multiple questions, sometimes Andrew Marr gives the prefatory statements. Multiple questions that he delivered always ask more than one questions. However, those questions are topically related to one another. The weakness of the questions is not all addressed questions are answered by the interviewee. The fourth rank of question realizations is follow-up questions which occur 8 times. Andrew Marr employs follow-up questions when the interviewee does not respond to the topical domain of the questions. Follow-up questions are effective to make the interviewee answer what the question asks. However, not all follow-up questions delivered by Andrew Marr are successful. Other non-dominant question realizations are preface tilt, negative questions, self-referencing question frames and other-referencing question frames. The first category creates dilemma and undesirable answer for the interviewee. The second one shows strong preference in delivering the question. Self-referencing question frames are employed to show Andrew Marr’s politeness in asking the question. On the other hand, other-referencing question frames are used to gain the interviewee’s willingness to answer the questions. 2. In responding to Andrew Marr’s questions, David Cameron employs roundabout trajectory, minimal answer plus elaboration, and lexical repetition. The most frequent answer strategy employed by David Cameron is minimal answer plus elaboration which occurs 34 times. It is followed by roundabout trajectory which occurs 23 times. As a result, lexical repetition is the least frequent answer strategy employed by David Cameron. As the first rank, minimal answer plus elaboration is employed to outline David Cameron’s answer. In displaying this strategy, he begins by one topic followed by supporting details. In addition, minimal answer plus elaboration is effective to present his argument. Other answer strategies employed by David Cameron are roundabout trajectory and lexical repetition. The first strategy is used by him to deliver his maneuver in his answer. In roundabout trajectory, there is no single topic or idea. The second strategy displayed by copying or borrowing some words from the interviewer to highlight the answer. Both phenomena of question realizations and answer strategies in Andrew Marr Show: Interview with David Cameron can be summed up by following explanations. The descriptions identify why particular question realizations are responded by particular answer strategies. In Andrew Marr Show: Interview with David Cameron, the questions addressed in multiple questions, follow-up questions, and global adversarialness are mostly responded by minimal answer plus elaboration. In responding to multiple questions, David Cameron can choose one of many questions addressed by Andrew Marr. By choosing one question, he highlights his response by employing minimal answer plus elaboration. The successful follow-up questions are accomplished when David Cameron employs this strategy because the aim of that questions is to make the interviewee stay in one topical domain of the question. Minimal answer plus elaboration is frequently employed to respond to global adversarialness since it is effective to outline his argument and explanation. In other cases, statement prefaces are frequently responded by roundabout trajectory and minimal answer plus elaboration. It can be explained by two conditions. If statement prefaces do not ask for a specific topic, it gives a space for David Cameron to deliver his maneuver by employing roundabout trajectory. On the other hand, if that question directly asks a specific single question, David Cameron emphasizes his answer by using minimal answer plus elaboration.

B. Suggestions

After drawing the conclusions, the researcher proposes some suggestions as follows: 1. to linguistics students The researcher suggests that linguistics students explore language phenomenon in broadcasts program especially news interview. They can employ conversation analysis as the main approach in investigating news interview. Moreover, there are still many possibilities to conduct research in conversation analysis by selecting news interview as the sources of data. 2. to future researchers News interview does not only cover question and answer interactions but also shows ideology from both the interviewer and interviewee. That is why the researcher suggests future researchers investigate how neutralism is maintained by the interviewer. In addition, they can examine how news interview displays bias to the media. 3. to people who have passion in news interview After reading this research, they are expected to acknowledge how questions are expressed by the interviewer and how the answer strategies are employed by the interviewee. Hopefully, they comprehend the functions and the effect of each question realizations. In addition, they understand how to create particular questions and understand in identifying answer strategies employed by the interviewee. As a result, they can conduct effective news interview.