27
their lives. She also gives more insight about the latest issues, such as children abuses, plastic surgery, and so on.
2.6 Previous Related Studies
Eggins and Slade 1997 conducted a study on some casual conversations
between English native speakers. Their study has two main aims. The first aim is to develop a comprehensive set of analytical techniques for describing language
patterns. The second aim is to offer a critical explanation of the role casual conversation plays in society. They found that conversation involving interactants
who are close and familiar frequently has a confrontational orientation. The talk is also quite highly elliptical. However, conversation involving less intimate
participants has an orientation toward consensus. Another study on interpersonal meaning was conducted by Suprihadi
2004 in question and answer episode of a thesis examination at English Department of Muria Kudus University. The participants of this study were
lecturers as the examiners and one student as the examinee. He found that the thesis examination was a collaborative supervising in which the examiners
collaboratively give informationto rather than demand it from the student. Hartono 2004 studied the power relation in the radio casual conversation
of the English radio program. He found that the hosts of the program were more powerful than the callers. The hosts enacted power by controlling turn – taking
system and producing more imperative mood types to the callers.
28
Another study was conducted by Sunardi 2006 focusing on the casual conversation between a native and non - native speaker. He found that non native
speaker played his role as the initiator, while the native speaker plays her role as the supporter. He also found that non native speaker showed his egocentricity in
the conversation from his “I” subject and subjective modalizations.
29
30
CHAPTER III PROCEDURES OF INVESTIGATION
3.1 Research Method
The study is regarded to be qualitative since the data used are the utterances spoken by the interactants in talk show. Miles and Huberman 1984: 15 state that
qualitative data are attractive. They are a source of well grounded, rich description and explanation of processes occurring in local context.
Rich description through words was used to explain the result of the study. The interpretation also employed thick analysis of words. Searle in William
2003: 5 notes that the important characteristics of qualitative is that it is about interpreting and coming to understand the social world at micro level.
The simple quantification made was only to support the study.
3.2 Unit of Analysis
Kategori