Sunday talk show or political discussion shows are a staple of
network programming in North America. These shows feature elected political figures and candidates for office, journalist, and
commentators.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In the previous chapter, the writer has explicated the theory of discourse markers according to Fraser‟s theory. Based on the explanation in the previous
chapter, in this chapter the writer will analyze about what are discourse markers types and function in the corpus and to explain about how contribute the discourse
markers in the utterances. This chapter contains the data that will be analyzed from The Andrew
Marr Show Interview with David Cameron, MP Conservative Leader on September 28, 2014. The writer uses method of qualitative descriptive research to
collect the data and need the data card to categorizing the data before write it into the table. And here are the steps:
1. The writer watch and download the video of interview via
https:www.youtube.com ;
2. The writer download the interview transcription from
www.bbc.co.uk ;
3. The writer reads the whole transcription while watching the video;
4. The writer write down the transcript into data card, then categorizing the
types and function that contain in the data. And the data card contains the number of data, the classification of types and function.
The writer finds there were 56 dialogues in the text. And only 25 data that will be analyzed by the writer because the others data there are no DMs. The
presenter in the corpus is Andrew Marr, and the speaker that the writer analyzes is David Cameron.
All of details of the data found are as follows: No
Dialogues Markers
Number of frequency
Group of markers 1.
Dialogue 2 And
But 2
2 Elaborative marker
Contrastive marker 2.
Dialogue 3 Well
Or And
Then Because
Likewise But
1 1
1 1
1 1
1 Marker of response
Elaborative marker Elaborative marker
Temporal marker Inferential marker
Elaborative marker Contrastive marker
3. Dialogue 6
Well Because
Indeed And
But Of course
You know 1
1 1
8 1
1 3
Marker of response Inferential marker
Elaborative marker Elaborative marker
Contrastive marker Inferential marker
Marker of information and participation
4. Dialogue 8
Well And
Because But
So 1
6 1
1 2
Marker of response Inferential marker
Inferential marker Contrastive marker
Inferential marker
5. Dialogue 9
Because So
Of course And
You know 1
2 1
1 1
Inferential marker Inferential marker
Inferential marker Elaborative marker
Marker of information and participation
6. Dialogue 10
Well I mean
Or And
But Then
Of course 1
1 1
2 1
1 1
Marker of response Marker of information and
participation Elaborative marker
Elaborative marker Contrastive marker
Temporal marker Inferential marker
