Bicycle Thief, Come Fly with Me, The Incident, Coal Digger, and Run for Your Wife are the titles of the first episode up to the sixth episode.
B. Previous Research
Studies of interruption have been done by many linguists since years ago. In this section, the researcher took two of them as references in undertaking this
research. The researches below have different results because of some differences relating to the object and the method. The researches taken are a journal and a
thesis. 1.
A Pragmatic Analysis of Interruptions Presented by the Characters in Rhimes’ Grey’s Anatomy Series-Season 1 Made Utari Prabesti, 2012
In the thesis, Made focused on interruption produced by the characters in Grey’s Anatomy series Season-1. The researcher chose this series because of the
unique setting that took place mainly in hospital. The objective of the research was to investigate the types and purposes of interruption in Grey’s Anatomy
Season 1. The results of the research were acquired from the transcript of the series
through note-taking technique. There are 31 data found in 9 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy Season 1. The researchers stated that types of interruption consisted of
four categories: simple interruption, overlap interruption, butting-in interruption, and silent interruption. The findings of the research show that simple interruption
occurred most among other types. Overlap interruption and butting-in interruption took the second and third position, while silent interruption appeared least.
On terms of the functions of interruption, the researcher compiled three types. They are disruptive, cooperative and others. Interruption functioned as disruptive
contained floor taking, disagreement, disinterest, rejection, and topic change. Cooperative consisted of completing an anticipated point, showing interest in the
topic, expressing supportive agreement, and showing understanding. The other functions are complaining and calming the situation. Among those functions,
disagreement appeared mostly in the series. Rejection took the second place and expressing supportive agreement was in the third position.
2. An Analysis of Gender Differences in Interruption based on the American TV
series Friends Zhao Fei, 2010 This thesis talked about functions and frequency of interruption presented by
characters in Friends series. The researcher wanted to compare the conversation between same-sex and mixed sex related to interruption produced during the
series. Taking three episodes from each Season, the objective of the research was to investigate the difference of speech style between three females and three male
protagonists in Friends. The researcher used three functions of interruption: competitive, cooperative,
and neutral. The thesis resulted to the six characters producing competitive interruption more than cooperative interruption. The domination and power were
shown in this finding. However, those functions were only slightly different in number because the characters were friends.
The other findings showed men tend to interrupt women much more than the reverse. Men produced more competitive interruption toward women than women
toward men. However, in cooperative interruption, both men and women said equally in terms of quantity. The other noteworthy result was mixed-sex did more
interruption than same-sex conversation. To sum up, both of them focus on interruption. It is interesting to investigate
the same topic, but using different approaches and objects. By using different object, the research can show different result as different context is taken. It has
broadened the limitation of identifying the use of interruption in media, especially in drama television.
C. Conceptual Framework
