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interruption is placed first in rank according to the number of occurrence. Following the simple type, the second rank is occupied by overlap interruption
which takes place nine times during the movie series or equals to 16.07 out of 100. In addition, the rests of the types, i.e. butting-in and silent interruption,
equally attain the third or last rank with three cases out of 56 instances of interruption. They each obtain 5.36 of the total percentage. The results indicate
that the characters in High School Musical movie series practice simple interruption more frequently than the other types within their conversations.
Additionally, in relation to the functions of interruption, the findings show that the characters in High School Musical movie series employed all the three
categories of functions, i.e. intrusive, cooperative and neutral. Among those categories, the intrusive category makes up the majority of occurrence. In this
case, the intrusive category has a total of 45 occasions out of 56 data identified in the movie series which is equivalent to 80.35 out of a total of 100. It is
followed orderly by the cooperative category which emerged 7 times 12.50 and the neutral category which appeared 4 times 7.14 during the movie series.
Meanwhile, from 10 functions altogether, floor-taking and disagreement occupy the first and the second position with 14 cases 25.00 and 11 instances
19.64 respectively. The following positions are attained by rejection in third place with 9 occasions 16.07, tangentialization in fourth place with 6 cases
10.71, and topic-change in fifth place with 5 occurrences 8.93. In addition, neutral function which constitutes 4 data out of 56 data 7.14 in the movie
series is in sixth position. Furthermore, seventh place is taken by three functions
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each of which has two cases 3.57. Those three functions consist of agreement, clarification and collaborative completion. Lastly, the remaining function, which
is assistance, is placed eighth or last in position by gaining one data 1.79. In respect of the research findings, it can be inferred that the interruptions performed
by the characters in High School Musical movie series are characteristically more intrusive or competitive than cooperative and neutral in function.