High School Musical Movie Series
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From the investigation, Prabesti obtained 31 data of interruption. Those data were classified into four types, namely simple, overlap, butting-in, and silent
interruption. The results suggested that the simple type was mostly used by the characters within their conversation while the silent type is the reverse. Moreover,
in terms of the purposes of interruption, Prabesti categorized the data into two main groups, i.e. disruptive and cooperative. The disruptive group included five
purposes, viz, floor-taking, disagreement, disinterest, rejection, and topic-change. In the cooperative group, there were four purposes: completing an anticipated
point, showing interest in the topic, expressing supportive agreement, and showing understanding. In addition, two additional purposes specially found in
the TV series were put into a different group called others. These purposes involved complaining and calming the situation. Based on the analysis,
disagreement ranked the first in the quantity of occurrence. Furthermore, the second study was conducted in 2014 by Chera Kurnia
Larasati entitled
“
A Conversation Analysis of Interruptions in Modern Family Season 1 Series
”
. The study focused on investigating interruption appearing in the first six episodes of the TV series. Larasati performed the study for the purpose of
revealing two issues, namely the types and functions of interruption used by the characters in the TV series.
The findings displayed that there were 57 interruptions gained from 6 episodes of the TV series. Similar to Prabest
i’s, four types of interruption
, namely simple, overlap, butting-in, and silent, were used in the classification of
interruption. Out of the four types, simple interruption had the largest number of
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appearance, while butting-in interruption, in contrast, made the lowest frequency of occurrence. In addition, there were three categories of functions of interruption
discovered, i.e. disruptive, cooperative and neutral. The first category was subdivided into three functions, viz, agreement, assistance and clarification.
Furthermore, four functions included in the second category were disagreement, floor-taking, topic-change, and tangentialization. Meanwhile, neutral function did
not have any subcategory of function. In the results of the study, disagreement was known to have the biggest quantity of cases. Clarification, on the other hand,
appeared to have the smallest cases. In summary, the two studies highlight similar problems to the present
study since they are also concerned with analysing interruption in terms of its types and functions or purposes. Nonetheless, there are also some differences
between the present research and those studies. Firstly, the present study observes the occurrences of interruption in a movie trilogy entitled High School Musical;
meanwhile, those earlier studies focus on investigating interruption in drama television series namely
Grey’s Anatomy season 1
and Modern Family season 1. Secondly, compared to the study conducted by Prabesti that applied Pragmatics as
the approach, this research employs Conversation Analysis which emphasizes on the study of the structures of conversation shared by people in interaction.
Conversation Analysis is chosen with regard to the notion that interruption in conversation appears as a form of violation of the usual conversational rules.
Thirdly, in comparison with the two prior studies, the present research refers to slightly different theories or adds more theories to answer the second research
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problem, i.e. the functions of interruption, in order to offer different and new points of view to assess the phenomenon under study.