THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ERRORS MADE BY THE INTERVIEWER AND COMMENTATORS IN “TALK INDONESIA”

5. THE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ERRORS MADE BY THE INTERVIEWER AND COMMENTATORS IN “TALK INDONESIA”

PROGRAM ON METRO TV In chapter II has explained the theories that are closely concerned with this analysis. The theories have covered up the information needed to analyze the speech errors. Moreover, they support the analysis. Psycholinguistic aspects have eventually become the basic things in the analysis. News is a high status TV genre perhaps the most privileged and prestigious media genre. It compares favorably against low status genres like soap opera and game shows. TV news has increased its output over the last forty years, to extent that news programs are among the most popular in the ratings; with declining newspaper sales, people now get more of their news from television and, as Andrew Goodwin 1990 suggests, people tend to trust television news more than other sources because of the apparent lack of the influence of partisan ownership and because of the perceived veracity of the pictures. The English talk show program Talk Indonesia on Metro TV channel is the objects to be analyzed by the writer. This Program is broadcasted every Sunday at 9.00 a.m. until 9.30 a.m. Previously, there were four TV stations that broadcasted English news program but at last only two TV stations do the same things, and one of them is Metro TV. The English talk show program Talk Indonesia is actually devoted to English speakers who cannot speak Bahasa Indonesia who need information too. There are ten samples that the writer has taken from the Universitas Sumatera Utara index of Metro TV’s website. In this program, the permanent interviewer is Dalton Tanonaka and there are some commentators who sometimes change every week. This talk show program is the speech to inform for it is basically at the point of informing all the people what is happening around the world, with other words, it gives us up-to-date information about all aspects in human life. That is now why it is included into the speech to inform”. Besides, there is ‘answering questions and objection’. This session is provided for the commentators to give their idea and opinion about the hot topic coming from the interviewer. The talk show program will be started with a statement by the interviewer and continue with questions which commentator should give their thoughts by answering according to their objection about the topic. The topics themselves deliver the information about culture, art, politics, sport, war, peace, music, etc. In earlier discussion, it has been clearly explained of how an interviewer a newsreader should behave on TV. Attention is drawn to the manner of speaking in television, especially for those who read the news. The studio telecast without any audience, however, is a much intimate thing. The interviewer only face the crew and other people in the studio without feeling afraid of being interrupted by the audience. All they have to do is to make the news easier and more interesting to be absorbed. The interviewer newsreaders will first present the headlines, which become the highlights of the days focus. After conveying the headline, the interviewer then throws some questions to the commentators, asking their opinitions related to Universitas Sumatera Utara the topic that the interviewer convey before. Then, after that the commentator will start talking and arguing each other. In this way, the audience of this program is mostly from adult because the importance of information is usually found in the case of adult. The news, regardless of what happens in the world, will be presented in the same format: headlines, tone of voice, etc. In a sense, the news is always already written; whatever happens to conform to the preconceived notion of news and news values, and is presented in the same way. Basically, every speaker produces the spech errors and the same thing also happen to the interviewer and the commentators in “Talk Indonesia” Program. They sometimes make some speech errors while delivering the news though each of the interviewer and the commentators does not produce the same number of speech errors. The common types of speech errors will be list as follows: No Common Speech Errors Symbols Examples 1 Silent Pause Throw away the rubbish

2 Filled Pause

,...., Throw away the, ah, food

3 Repeats

Throw away the rubbish the rubbish 4 Retracted False Starts \ Throw away the rubbish the food 5 Unretracted False Starts \\ Throw away the rubbish \\ food

6 Corrections

— Throw away the rubbish – I mean, the food 7 Stutters ---- Throw away the r-r-r-rubbish Universitas Sumatera Utara

8 Interjections

.... Throw away ah rubbish 9 Slip of the tongue → Throw away → Get away the rubbish After attaching the common types of speech errors, the writer will analyze the speech errors produced by the interviewer of “Talk Indonesia” – Dalton Tanonaka and the commentators – Sakura Moretto, Wimar Witoelar, Rahayu Saraswati,

5.1 Talk Indonesia on 13th of March 2011